In the past, when the Spring Festival came, adults would tell their children never to say unlucky things like "broken", "broken", "dead", "poor" and "finished". Children accidentally spill the beans, and adults always add "childlike innocence" beside them.
If you drop a chopstick, you will say, "Happy, happy every year." If you break a plate or something, you will say.
In peacetime. There are still many things to pay attention to in the new year. "My uncle died of a haircut in the first month" is a long-standing superstition. Affected by this, many people get their hair cut before the twelfth lunar month. If the twelfth lunar month is too late, it will be put off until the second day of the twelfth lunar month, which is commonly known as "the dragon looks up."
Ye Xianzhi, Volume 2, Customs, published in the 24th edition of the Republic of China, reveals the mystery of customs: "I heard that before the Qing Dynasty, all townships talked about shaving their hair, and the imperial edict was implemented in the first month of the fourth year of Shunzhi. When the Ming dynasty changed, the people thought of the old monarch because they shaved their hair, so they called it' thinking about the old'. Get along for a long time, and then be mistaken for' dead uncle'.
"Don't shave your head in the first month, the original is" nostalgia ". The first month is the beginning of a year, just like a morning.
Don't shave your head for a month in the first month to remember the tradition. The time of the "tonsure order" of rural veterans was wrong, not in the first month of the fourth year of Shunzhi, but in June of the second year of Shunzhi. At that time, Regent Dourgen ordered to set up stalls at the main intersections of Beijing, such as Qianmen, Di 'anmen and Dongxi Pagoda, to shave passers-by for free.
The "haircut order" stipulates that all officials, soldiers and civilians should shave their heads, and those who hesitate should be beheaded according to the theory of rebellion! The imperial court frightened the Han people by threatening them with death to submit to Manchu hairstyles. But this panic instantly turned into anger. They would rather die than shave their heads, and even shouted, "It is better to tie ghosts than shave their heads." But after all, the neck is not as hard as a steel knife, and Han people are forced to shave their heads. But the resistance did not stop. Not shaving your head for the first month is a kind of resistance.
1644 to 1650 (from the first year of Shunzhi to the seventh year of Shunzhi), Italian Martino Martini wrote "The Battle of Tatar", which recorded the military and civilians fighting to protect their hair in southern China: the military and civilians took up arms and swore to protect their hair. They are braver than the Ming emperors. They not only drove the Qing army out of their city, but also sent them to the Qiantang River, killing many Qing troops.
In fact, if they catch up with the past, they may recover the provincial capital and other towns, but instead of continuing to develop and win, they are only content to keep their hair. It is hard for Italians to understand that they will turn around without hesitation in order to shave their heads.
Everyone knows that our China culture is profound, so we have many traditional customs. As a result, we have taboos in all aspects. Today, Bian Xiao will introduce a taboo that everyone is familiar with.
As we all know, before the Chinese New Year, the business of barbershops was extremely hot. Everyone wants a haircut. Besides having a clean New Year, there is another saying that you don't shave your head in the first month. It is an unwritten folk rule not to have a haircut in the first month, and everyone acquiesces. They all said, "I shaved my head and died in the first month." How can such a good hairstyle endanger my uncle's life?
In fact, there are two versions circulating among the people. The first version is about a barber who has been orphaned since childhood. Because both parents died of illness, his uncle took him home to raise him. At that time, because he was poor and had no money to go to school, he could only learn one trade, so this man became a barber. In order to repay my uncle who has taken care of himself since childhood, I want to give him a gift in the first month.
But I am too poor to buy expensive gifts, so I want to use the skills I have learned to give my uncle a beautiful haircut. My uncle was also moved. After all, his nephew is very poor, so he should repay himself instead of taking on his years of parenting. So this barber cuts his uncle's hair every January.
But a few years later, my uncle also died.
The second argument is that during the Qing dynasty, in order to consolidate the rule, the Qing government began to implement a haircut order. That's what we saw on TV. The man left this big braid, half bald in front. But it was difficult for Han people to adapt to this hairstyle at first, so some people refused to shave their heads. But the Qing government regarded these people as anti-Qing people, so they were all imprisoned.
And released the malicious words of "keeping hair and not hair, keeping hair and not hair", but there are still many people who are unwilling to implement the shaving order. So a brutal massacre began, and all the violators were killed. So people are afraid to come and shave their hair. But people still admire those victims, so people don't shave their heads in January to commemorate them.
However, the literary inquisition prevailed in the Qing Dynasty, especially during the Qianlong period. People also dare not think of old words for fear of getting burned. That's why I chose homophonic death, and that's why I have today's statement.
Of course, I believe that everyone has never heard of these two statements. After all, everyone only knows that there was no haircut in January. On the other hand, these two statements sound exaggerated and have no scientific basis at all. Therefore, those of us who believe in science need not ignore this opportunity. Even if I get a haircut for the first month, my uncle will be fine. Therefore, readers have friends who are uncles. Don't be afraid that your nephew's first haircut won't endanger your life.
In our daily life, we always hear such a sentence, "If you shave your head in the first month, your uncle will die." If I shave my head for the first month, will my uncle really die? Today, let's talk about the origin of "the uncle who shaved his head in the first month". "My uncle died in the first month-twice" is actually a two-part allegorical saying, in which "my uncle died" is homophonic with "thinking about the past and thinking about the future", meaning to miss the Ming Dynasty. After the Qing army entered the customs, the Central Plains implemented the law of "shaving and changing clothes". The laws of shaving, changing clothes, enclosure, occupation of houses, charging fees and desertion are called "six evils in the early Qing Dynasty", among which shaving is the most violent resistance.
Since ancient times, ordinary Han people have little interest in who should be emperor. They only care about their own food and clothing, and pay little attention to political changes. When the Qing army first entered the customs, it was under the banner of "committing crimes against the people", and the legitimacy and rationality of its rule were recognized by some Han Chinese and literati. However, the "order of shaving hair and changing clothes" implemented by the rulers of the Qing Dynasty was strongly resisted, and a new round of anti-Qing uprising was set off in the Central Plains.
The new anti-Qing wave triggered by the "haircut order" also shocked western missionaries at that time. For example, Italian missionary Martino Martini said in his book The Battle of Tatar: "People take up arms to defend their heads.
Fighting is even braver than beating the emperor and the country. "Why are Han people braver than the emperor and the country in the struggle to defend their hair?
This is the result of thousands of years of contact with Confucian culture. In a word, Confucian culture is "ruling the country with filial piety", and all moral norms are expounded from "filial piety". The Analects of Confucius said: "He is also filial to his younger brother, but there are very few people who are easy to offend;" Those who are not good at making mistakes, but good at making trouble, have nothing to do with this. A gentleman's business is based on virtue, which is the foundation of benevolence? "
So how can we be "filial"? "The Book of Filial Piety" has made it very clear that "parents dare not damage the body and skin, and filial piety begins. Standing on the road, I will make a name for myself in later generations to show my parents that I am filial. " Other moral norms emphasized by Confucian culture all come from "filial piety". Not daring to damage one's body and hair is considered as the beginning of filial piety, and "filial piety" is the foundation of Confucian culture. Therefore, defending your hair is more important than defending the emperor and the court.
In order to enforce the shaving order, the Qing court also put forward the slogan "Leave the hair headless, leave the hair headless". To this end, the folk anti-Qing righteous responded with the slogan "the head can be cut off, not shaved" and confronted the Qing court. However, the civil anti-Qing struggle was finally suppressed by the Qing government, and people had to express their inner anger by "not shaving their heads in the first month". Over time, it has become a two-part allegorical saying of "Shaving your head in the first month-dead uncle". In fact, the purpose of this two-part allegorical saying at the beginning is to fight against the shaving order imposed by the Qing rulers with "no shaving in the first month"