China News Service, Xi'an, February 25th, title: "Don't shave your head in the first month" The old custom is getting "cold" and "Self-feeling" leads to changes in young people's ideas
Author Zhang Yichen Party Field
"Today is my uncle's birthday, and I went to have my hair cut. I wonder if I will be criticized when I go home." Xi'an "post-80s" Ye Liu joked in WeChat Moments.
In many places in the mainland, there is a custom of "don't shave your head in the first month, and shave your uncle to death". People will not shave their heads until the second month of the lunar calendar.
Now this custom is gradually "cold".
On the 25th, the reporter saw on the streets of Xi'an that most barbershops had already opened for business, and many people came to "wash, cut and blow."
In a hairdressing shop in the southern suburbs of Xi'an, the barber Li Jia was trimming the hair of a customer, and three other customers were waiting beside him. There was no deserted scene.
"We started business on the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, and the number of customers per day has not decreased compared to normal days." Li Jia, who has been in the hairdressing industry for nearly 20 years, said that she may have been affected by the custom of "don't shave her head during the first month of the new year." There are relatively few customers who cut their hair. In the past two or three years, the number of customers who cut their hair in the first month has gradually increased, and they are mostly young people.
"My brother-in-law is five years older than me, and he always looks like a buddy. He brought me to cut my hair today." Wang Yueqing, a "post-95" who recently joined the work, said with a smile, everyone said that "my uncle loves my nephew", but he and My uncles almost grew up together, there is no concept of generation, and everyone doesn't care much about the "no shave head in the first month".
Some folklore experts have verified that the custom of "don't shave your head in the first month" originated in the early Qing Dynasty. At that time, people expressed the feeling of "thinking about the old". Later, the homophony was attached to "dead uncle", which has become a folk custom that has been passed down to this day.
"Our barber shop focuses on men's styling, such as men's business hairstyles, classic retro oil tops, etc. Most of the customers are young people." Meng Xiang, who has opened 4 barber shops in Xi'an, said that his shop has started normal business on the eighth day of the new year. , And customer appointments in recent days have been filled up. Nowadays, young people are not too shy about the old custom of "don't shave their heads in the first month".
"For me who has no uncle or nephew, there should be no such scruples." Bai Yanyu, a 22-year-old boy in Xi'an, believes that nowadays there are more and more only children, and the relationship between relatives has become simple. Many people do not have one. Aunts, uncles, uncles, aunts and other relatives, many "old customs" may disappear with the development of society.
"If tradition becomes a dogma, it will lose its vitality." Wang Xiaoyong, an expert at the Shaanxi Academy of Social Sciences, said that contemporary Chinese young people have a broader understanding of traditional customs. The old customs of "no shaved head in the first month" is the product of an era. Today, "young people still have haircuts in the first month" reflects the young people's pursuit of "self-expression" and independent cultural choices. (Finish)