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Reporter Lu Lu.
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Recently, a case in CCTV's "Law Lecture (Life Edition)" program has attracted the attention of netizens: nephew Liu went to get a haircut on the second day of the first lunar month, and his uncle died in a car accident that night, and his aunt accused his nephew of "intentional homicide" and demanded compensation of 1 million. In the end, the court held that the cause of the car accident was an accident caused by drunk driving, which had nothing to do with Liu's haircut, and rejected the plaintiff's aunt's claim in accordance with the law.
There is no relationship between the New Year's haircut and the death of his uncle, the two are purely coincidental. One of the reasons why this case has aroused heated discussions among netizens is that "you can't get a haircut on the New Year" has a certain "influence". There are uncles in the family, and there should be many people who have been told by their elders since childhood that "you can't get a haircut in the New Year". Every year when the Spring Festival is approaching, there are many people who cut their hair in the wax month, and there are many people who stop cutting their hair in the first month without special circumstances. Believe it or not, in the first month, this sentence will always be mentioned. Second, the verdict of the case is naturally not suspenseful, and it is indeed a little absurd to elevate a circulating folk custom to the moral and legal level.
In fact, "the first month of the haircut and the death of the uncle" is a miscommunication. When the Qing army entered the customs, they asked to shave their hair and keep braids, and many people missed the Ming Dynasty and agreed that everyone would not shave their heads in the first month, and named this action "thinking of the old", which means "thinking about the past history". Due to the homonym of "thinking of the old" and "dead uncle", with the passage of time, it has evolved into the saying "dead uncle with a haircut in the first month", and it has also evolved into a "taboo" thing for many people in the first month.
Nowadays, with the development of the times, the custom of "not cutting hair on New Year's Day" has become more and more diluted. Whether or not to get a haircut on New Year's Day is a matter for each person to decide according to their own needs, not just a custom. Just as this case that makes people feel a little absurd but real happened brings us enlightenment, although many folk customs have become conventions in our lives and even have a profound impact on our thinking and living habits, we still have to learn to treat them in a more scientific and rational way, carry forward those that are in line with social development and progress, and are beneficial to physical and mental health, abandon those with feudal superstition and go against science, take their essence and remove their dross, and let folk customs continue to carry forward in abandonment and innovation.