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On the second of February, the dragon looked up, how many years has this folk proverb been said? No one knows.
On this day, people will shave off the hair that has grown crazy for a month, which is called "shaving the dragon's head" in the folk. How did this custom come about? Why is there a proverb that "do not shave your head in the first month, shave your head to die uncle" that has been passed down to future generations? It is estimated that few people can say clearly.
When I was a child, people didn't shave their heads during the first month. Listening to adults say that shaving their heads years ago, one is to start from the beginning and relax the New Year, and the other is not to shave your head during the whole new month, because shaving your head will kill your uncle. Therefore, on the second day of February, the adults take us to shave our heads, even if we do not want to shave, we will be persuaded, forced to shave our heads, and even twist our ears, regardless of whether you are willing to cry or not. I remember that at that time, a small friend heard the reasons said by adults, and opened his mouth to ask why? As a result, he was beaten by his father and never dared to ask again.
Not asking doesn't mean our little brains don't want to. At that time, a few people would mutter, just to see if there was a shaving maker opening in the first month, and whether anyone had shaved their heads. In that era, haircuts were also called shavers, shaving heads, barber shops were also called shaving stalls, and even shaving heads who picked people to go from village to village to shave their heads, often seen, especially in the big set, shaving stalls are everywhere. To be honest, we were still very confident at the time, and we all thought that we would be able to find a shaved head.
It is strange to say that running all over the first month, even if it is such a lively market on the fifteenth day of the first month, I have not seen a shaved head stall, let alone a shaved head, so we are discouraged, and obediently believe the words of the adults, obediently take the initiative to shave our heads on the second day of February. Why do you take the initiative? Because adults also shave their heads. Not only to shave, but also to leave us a sentence, the aunt is the child shaving the head on the second of February, shaving is the "happy head", shaving is auspicious, shaving is ruyi and peace.
These words are really instilled in our hearts. What is word of mouth? The four words of the adults using words to teach by example have enriched the charm of folklore, promoted the circulation of folk proverbs, and also made this folk proverb have more and more vitality and rooted in people's hearts.
With our growth, the progress of society, and the development of science and technology, I am more and more concerned about "February 2nd, dragon head up" and "February 2, shaving the dragon head", and more and more want to sort out the folk principles contained in it. By looking through various materials, I understood that February 2 is the traditional "Spring Dragon Festival", plus it is before and after the rain, the atmosphere warms up, the earth recovers, the spring breeze, the spring flowers are waiting to be released, the hidden dragon in the yuan is also about to vacate, and the good day is coming soon, so people will call the "dragon in the field" The second of February of "the dragon looks up" the day, which means a kind of beauty, looking forward to saying goodbye to winter, embracing spring in the "nine nine plus one nine" festival.
After understanding the folklore of "February 2, the dragon looks up", the saying of "February 2, shaving the dragon's head" can also be explained. Since february 2 is the "Spring Dragon Festival", since the dragons on this day will also look up, then people will naturally ask for a "colorful head". You think, dragons have all looked up, don't people need to look up? Doesn't a person need to shave off the hair that has been stored for more than a month? You know, folk have always had the custom of "haircuts and old haircuts". Shaving the head on the second of February, the day when the dragon looks up, will also bring good luck to people, because we shave the "dragon head" on this day. Of course, people choose this day to shave their heads, one is February 2 is the last festival of the New Year, after February 2, the year is over, the farm work will come out, idle for two or three months of "winter leisure season" is coming to an end, spring sowing spring planting will begin immediately, at that time, everyone is busy without touching the ground, who still has time to shave their heads? Besides, from shaving the head in the waxing moon to the first month, the hair is too long, and it is impossible not to shave, and the wise ancestors also borrowed the auspicious day of February 2 to crown themselves with the elegant name of "shaving the dragon's head". So much so that by the second of February, even though the shaving stalls were everywhere, the people who came to shave their heads were still overcrowded. On this day, the shavers have become the fragrant food in people's eyes, and it is really a blessing at the door, and the wealth has soared.
I also have a deep understanding of shaving my head on February 2. Because there were many fathers and sisters, plus four of our brothers and sisters, the family has always been very poor. Don't look at the money for shaving the head, the more people who shave, the money is money. In order to save money, his father bought a pusher and "pushed his head" for his family (that is, shaved head, another folk language), and he himself let his mother or uncle push him. Remember that the fader is used a lot, and I start to pinch my hair. Once, when I was pushing my head, the pusher clamped my hair so hard that it hurt me to grin my teeth and cry wolf. Even though the father stopped, cleaned up the lower fader, and added some oil to lubricate it, he still clipped his hair. But the push head is half pushed, always can not push, leave a yin and yang head, right? So, I had to push it down hard. When my hair was shaved, I cried into tears. Since then, I have been afraid when I see the old pusher, and in order to save money to shave my head, I have almost left a psychological shadow...
Later, I read a kind of information that said that shaving the head on february 2 began in the Qing Dynasty. Why? Because Han people under the age of eighteen can shave their heads, especially children, most of them shave their heads, but from the day of the weak crown at the age of eighteen, they can wear hats, and their hair can no longer be shaved, until they die and grow long hair, because of the skin of the body, by their parents, growing hair is a spontaneous gratitude, a kind of heartfelt filial piety, and a long-term inheritance of virtue.
Thinking of this, I think of Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms. When leading an army through the wheat field, Cao Cao issued an order that the generals should pass through the wheat field and behead all those who trampled on it. As soon as this order was issued, all the soldiers dismounted and helped the wheat pass by, and none of them trampled on it. And Cao Cao's warhorse? But he was frightened by the accident and trampled on the wheat field. Therefore, Cao Cao wanted to execute himself. The generals and strategists persuaded each other one after another, and even the executive officers moved out of the Spring and Autumn Period, believing that a noble person like him could not be punished, not to mention that the three armies could not be without a marshal for a day. In this regard, Cao Cao believes that he has formulated the decree himself, but he has taken the lead in violating it, and if he does not punish it, how can he win the trust of others? How to command the three armies? Even if you are a minister, the one who makes the decree, you should be punished. But if you don't behead and show the public, how can you do what you want to do and take the lead in obeying orders? Therefore, Cao Mengde took the opportunity to move, so he pulled out his sword, cut off his hair, and ordered the three armies: Xiang Xiang ta mai, should have been beheaded, but the conquest was heavy, and now cut his hair instead. When the generals heard the news, their morale was even higher, and their military discipline became more stringent.
People in ancient times knew that "the skin of man's hair, the parents of his receiving", should not be discarded lightly. In a word, hair is equally important as the head, and keeping the hair is as fateful. From Cao Cao's "cutting hair and acting as the head" at that time, we can understand to what extent people's special value for hair before the Qing Dynasty. It may also be that they understand the Han people's shoufa complex, after the Qing Dynasty ruled China, the Qing court forced all the Han people to shave their heads, and those who did not shave died, and even destroyed the door. Faced with the threat of life and death, people had to succumb and had to shave their heads. But at the same time as shaving their heads, they also have such a pact, they can't shave their heads in the first month, they want to think about the past and miss the past hair. But for a long time, coupled with the problem of harmonic sounds, people passed on the "thinking of the old" into a "dead uncle" and passed it down from generation to generation, just as "no degree of no husband" was rumored to be "no poison and no husband", becoming a folk proverb known to women and children, and in this way strictly regulate their own behavior, especially those who have uncles in the family, they dare not trespass half a point.
Savoring such a folk proverb, time has passed to the twenty-first century. With the development of the times, I don't know who took the lead in eating crabs, but abandoned the stereotype of not shaving your head in the first month. There are leaders, there are followers, for a time, reform, opening up, spring breeze pudu, the rule of not shaving the head in the first month has been broken, and the people who catch the trend have thrown the title of shaved head and shaved head into Java, calling them barbers. The new peach has replaced the old charm, and the folk shaving stalls have basically disappeared, replaced by various barber shops and hair salons throughout the streets and alleys, which not only began to operate on the sixth day of the first month of the first month, but also opened the door, and even customers were still full of doors, trading and trading. What is even more surprising is that female barbers are unique, standing in a beautiful landscape, women's hair care comes to the top, hair shows fashion, color hair beautiful the world, really fell off the eyes of the elderly.
Nowadays, people have long been accustomed to shaving their heads in the first month, and no one has said that "no shaving of the head in the first month" is said, but many people still remember the custom of shaving the dragon head on the second of February, and specially choose to cut their hair on the second of February. If nothing else, just to inherit that beautiful meaning, in the imagination of good fortune and good fortune, let yourself be smooth in the new year and usher in a good omen. Why not use such a good omen in exchange for a good mood?
On the second of February, shave the dragon's head, and have a spiritual head all year round. Today, it's February 2 again, have you shaved your "faucet"?
On March 4, 2022, 00:12 a.m. was hurried
Author: Lv Yongqing, lyricist, poet, prose writer, screenwriter, cultural event planner, writer, member of the Chinese Musicians Association, director of the Chinese Music and Literature Society... Vice Chairman of Yuncheng Writers Association, Vice Chairman of Music Association, Honorary Chairman of Yuncheng Volunteer Association, currently working at Yuncheng County Cultural Center. He has published more than 2,000 works (articles) in more than 100 national, provincial and municipal newspapers, radio, television stations and stages, and his works have won more than 200 awards such as the national "Five One Project Award", the first prize of the government award, the gold award of China Broadcasting, the bronze award, the "Peony Award" of Chinese Quyi and the "Incentive Award of Striving for Civilization Progress".
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