Just a month after the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations began, another tradition comes along: to have a haircut on the second day of the second month, or Er Yue Er, also known as Longtaitou (dragon raises head), which is to hope for good luck for the entire year.
The Liubukou community in Xicheng district provided free Haircut to more than 120 seniors. The old and the weak in the community got their first trims of the Lunar New Year, which is considered auspicious.
Many Chinese subscibe to the superstition that getting a haircut when the dragon raises its head means they will have a vigorous start to the new year. It s assumed his maternal uncle will die.
A Chinese Legend holds that a poor barber loved his uncle very much, but could not afford a decent new year s gift for him. So he gave him a nice haircut that made the old man look much younger than his year. His uncle said it was the best gift he had ever received and wished to have it every year from then on.
After his uncle died, the barber missed him very much and cried every new year. Over the years, his thinking of his uncle (si jiu) was interpretpreted as death of uncle , because their pronunciations are almost the same in Chinese.
On the other hand, the lucky haircut tradition comes from the Chinese s worship of the dragon, which is believed to symbolize luck.
