Why can't I wash my hair on the fifteenth day of the first month?
Taboos on New Year's Day Different nationalities have different views. In many places, you can't take a bath, wash your hair, sweep the floor, take out the garbage, splash water or wash clothes on New Year's Day. We should also avoid killing, eating porridge, taking medicine, breaking utensils, giving away money, swearing, fighting, hitting children, crying, offering incense to unclean people, opening doors and setting off firecrackers.
The custom of not washing your hair on the fifteenth day of the first month comes from Buddhism, because Buddhism stipulates that Buddhist believers should fast, recite scriptures and respect Buddha on the fifteenth day of the first month, which is actually equivalent to Sunday in the west. People must clean up before the first day of the first month and the fifteenth day of the first month. On the first and fifteenth day of the first month, they will go to the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha and pray for peace. If you wash your hair on the first and fifteenth day of junior high school, it is said to be blasphemous.
There is a water god in the water, and the birthday of the water god is on the second day of the first grade, so you can't wash your hair and clothes these two days, otherwise it is disrespectful to the water god. In Guangdong, it is a common custom not to wash your hair on the fifteenth day of the first month, otherwise it will wash away your wealth. In the old days, women also had to choose auspicious days to wash their hair: know life on the first day, knowing good luck on the second day, knowing wealth on the third day, getting out of danger on the fourth day, losing hair on the fifth day, getting injured on the sixth day, reporting to the official on the seventh day, living long on the eighth day, getting married on the ninth day, adding an official on the tenth day, being bright at eleven o'clock, dying on the twelfth day, being lucky on the thirteenth day, being lucky on the fourteenth day, being happy on the fifteenth day, being fierce on the sixteenth day, and being as black as a craftsman
However, with the continuous progress of society, young people are no longer so concerned about these small details, and they want to wash them. It's just that washing your hair in winter is easy to catch cold. Just pay attention to the time of washing your hair and the details of keeping warm.