In the past two days, I saw a news that a certain nephew went to get a haircut on the second day of the first lunar month, but his uncle was killed in a car accident that night, and then his aunt went to sue his nephew for intentional homicide. Why? Because we have a saying: shave your head and kill your uncle in the first month.
What will the court decide? I know this with my toes, and there is nothing wrong with my nephew. It's nothing more than a bizarre farce, and to be honest, I don't think the court staff will be surprised, because I'm sure there are more bizarre things than that.
Without further ado, what is the matter with the words of the uncle who shaved his head and died in the first month?
Before the Qing Dynasty, there was no legend of shaving the head and killing the uncle in the first month. The ancients received the education that the parents of the body hair and skin, whether it was shaving or haircut, were quite cautious, the hair was given by the parents, and it should be preserved for life without breakage, and the people regarded the haircut as a great humiliation or a punishment for themselves, and combed the hair into a bun and tied it on the head for life.
After entering the Qing Dynasty, he began to shave his head and keep braids. After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, it implemented the idea of "flattening the surrounding areas and staying in the Central Plains", and paid special attention to the change and standardization of the people's clothing. In June of the second year of Shunzhi, Shunzhi, who was seven years old on behalf of the regent Dolgon, issued the "Edict of Shaving Hair", ordering the whole people to shave their hair, and it was a "sand pot head" hairstyle that had nothing around and only left a braid in the middle of the head. The emperor ordered the whole people to shave their heads, and the officers and soldiers strictly carried them out, and the violators would be killed.
Some of the common people follow the old customs and cannot accept this change, and some people still have nostalgia for the Ming Dynasty, in order to show their resistance, these people meet in the first month of each year without shaving their heads. Since then, there has been a proverb and rumor among the people that "don't shave your head in the first month - thinking about the old", which means thinking about the past dynasties. In the process of continuous recitation for hundreds of years, this proverb has evolved into today's "shaved head and dead uncle in the first lunar month".
I have said many times before that although there was no self-**** in ancient times, the ability of the ancients to make up nonsense is not weaker than that of self-**** now. For example, I wrote an article "Can You Get Married in the Year of a Widow?" which also talks about the evolution of traditional culture. For another example, when pasting couplets during the Spring Festival, they like to paste the word "Fu" upside down, implying that blessing has arrived.
From our current point of view, it is actually a "homophonic stalk". The ancients called it not a homophonic stalk, but a "weft". From thinking about the old to the dead uncle, I believe that the starting point of the ancients was good, in order to resist the rule of the Qing Dynasty, but the times are changing, and the original intention has slowly changed.
This reminds me of the game microphones in some variety shows now, where the stars put on headphones and then pass the word. When a sentence reaches the end, it often becomes unrecognizable. For example, the first sentence is "I quickly finished eating bread", and in the end, it may become "Lu Xun wants to buy me a bag"?
A variety game is just a few minutes of time, but one sentence has made such a big change. Our traditional culture has evolved over hundreds of years, and you can imagine how much it will change. It is possible that a joke by Zhuangzi in the pre-Qin period was regarded as a classic in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, we need to learn to distinguish between dross and essence.
The I Ching emphasizes the Tao of one yin and one yang, and everything has two sides. Although the network is very developed and it is easy to obtain information and knowledge, it is precisely because of its speed and convenience that many things can be spread faster and wider. What if it's a wrong message or knowledge? So will it make more people "bad"? For example, in the past, there was no network, and you said that one plus one equals three, and it might only spread in your three villages and five miles, but now what will happen to the whole network? Especially with the development of artificial intelligence, a lot of content is written by AI, and the writing is particularly real, and it is difficult for you to distinguish the true from the fake, isn't it scary?
So how do you distinguish the truth from the fake in the mess of information? Remember nine words: read more, think more, and be logical.