"The folk custom of' not shaving your head in the first month' originated from the first day when the Qing army defeated Li Zicheng, that is, on April 22nd, the first year of Qing Shunzhi (1644), Shunzhi issued a' haircut order' in Shenyang Forbidden City." Liu Zhenchao, vice-president of Liaoning Folklore Society, said that in order to carry out the idea of "leveling all sides and leaving the Central Plains", the Qing court decided to implement a peculiar hairstyle: shaving the hair from the front to the top of the head, and then shaving all the hairlines around, leaving only a piece in the middle and a long big braid (suncus murinus tail). In order to unify the country, especially the ruling ideology, the Qing court popularized this hairstyle among the Han people.

Liu Zhenchao said that the saying that "my uncle died in the first month" is actually a myth, in which "my uncle died" is actually a sound change of "homesickness", and the cause of this saying is also related to Shenyang. After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, many Han people didn't cut their hair in the first month to show their nostalgia for the Ming Dynasty, but they were afraid to openly confront the Qing government, so there was a saying that "my uncle died in the first month" and it has been handed down all the time.

Talking about the proverb "If you don't shave your head in the first month, you will die if you shave your head", Qu, president of Liaoning Folk Society, pointed out that because in China traditional culture, "the skin is long and influenced by your parents", Han men have been storing hair since ancient times, regarding "hair" as their life and "hair removal" as a punishment. "In the Three Kingdoms, Cao Caoceng had his first haircut, which was for this reason. The Qing government forced the Han people to change their hair styles to Manchu hair styles and keep braids to unify national costumes, which aroused strong national resistance. Therefore, there was a slogan of' I would rather be a ghost than a barber' and a struggle against shaving, such as' Jiangyin Ten Days'. " Qu said that he later created a two-part allegorical saying of "Shaving one's head in the first month-uncle's death", which is homophonic with "uncle's death" and means "homesickness", expressing a kind of national resistance thought under the dark rule of national oppression.

Folklorists believe that "shaving one's head to death" was originally an act of Han people against the Qing Dynasty. After more than 300 years of word of mouth, it has evolved into another meaning, which is now more reflected in the Chinese nation's character and cultural tradition of paying attention to blood relationship. "Society is progressing and folk customs are developing. People should pay more attention to the cultural inheritance of folk customs, but don't delay normal life for this, and truly achieve' clean and upright'. " Bend to say: