Qing Dynasty braids are so ugly that they are unacceptable, don't be deceived by TV series
Why did the Qing Dynasty order men to shave their hair? What is the purpose behind it? In addition, is the common yin and yang head in film and television dramas the real Qing Dynasty hairstyle?
Why did Qing Dynasty men shave their hair? In the early days of the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji changed the name of the country to "Qing", and then the Qing army entered the customs and ruled the Central Plains. In the process, the Qing ** issued a "shaving order", but because it aroused strong opposition from the Han people, the order was soon repealed.
However, after the Qing army moved south to conquer the Jiangnan region, a Han minister, Sun Zhiqi, suggested to Dolgon that the order be reinstated, and Dolgon listened to his advice and issued another shaving order in 1645.
During the Qing Dynasty, a decree was promulgated that required all officials and citizens throughout the country to shave their hair, and it was implemented in various places. The slogan for the implementation of this order is "Keep your head without hair, and keep your hair without your head".
At the same time, the Qing Dynasty also issued an edict on easy clothing, stipulating that officials and citizens should follow the system of their own dynasty. However, this decree aroused strong opposition from the Han Chinese government and people, who revolted one after another.
In order to suppress the uprising, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty resorted to violent means, such as the Jiading Three Massacres**, which were triggered by shaving their hair and changing clothes. This struggle between "shaved or not shaved" lasted for 37 years, and in the end the Manchu rulers emerged victorious.
However, the struggle reflected the rebellion and dissatisfaction of the Han Chinese government and people with the rule of the Qing Dynasty.
Since then, the Han Chinese have had to shave their hair and wear Manchu costumes. Those who did not change were either executed, fled overseas, or lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests.
So, why did the Qing Dynasty let men have a handful of ugly braids? This is actually because the Manchus were originally a fishing and hunting people, and in daily life, in order to facilitate hunting, men usually shaved their hair and left a small handful of hair the size of copper coins on the top of their heads, and then tied it into a braid, which is the so-called "money rat tail braid".
In the dynasties before the Qing Dynasty, the Han people respected the concept of "the body is skinned, and the parents dare not destroy it", so no emperor would specifically order the whole people to have a uniform hairstyle.
The rulers of the Qing Dynasty also knew very well that it was a great humiliation to let the Han people shave their hair, but in order to suppress the Han people ideologically and spiritually, they issued a shaving order as soon as they entered the customs.
This is enough to show that the Qing Dynasty has always considered how to enslave ordinary people and make everyone obey their orders. So the question arises again, how did the hairstyle that we see in film and television dramas with half hair and half hair without hair come about?
1.In the early Qing Dynasty, the money rattail was the standard hairstyle for men, and the hair on the top of the head had to pass through the copper coin holes. However, this peculiar hairstyle matched the length of the beard prescribed by the Qing Dynasty (about 10 on each side of the upper lip), making it look grotesque and obscene, and even the emperor himself was dissatisfied.
The West also took the opportunity to ridicule China for hundreds of years. 2.At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the money rattail became the standard hairstyle for men, and the hair on the top of the head had to pass through the copper coin holes.
However, this peculiar hairstyle matched the length of the beard prescribed by the Qing Dynasty (about 10 on each side of the upper lip), making it look grotesque and obscene, and even the emperor himself was dissatisfied.
The West also took the opportunity to ridicule China for hundreds of years. 3.At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the standard hairstyle for men was a rattail pigtail, and the hair on the top of the head had to go through a copper coin hole.
In addition, the Qing Dynasty also stipulated that a man's beard length should only be about 10 on each side of the upper lip. This hairstyle and regulations made people look grotesque and obscene, and even the emperor himself was dissatisfied.
The West also took the opportunity to ridicule China for hundreds of years.
Since the middle of the Qing Dynasty, men's hairstyles have ushered in innovation, especially since the Jiaqing period, and there have been significant changes in hairstyles. Although the hairline on the top of the head has not changed, the amount of hair has increased from the original "the size of one copper coin" to "the size of five copper coins", which is equivalent to the palm of the palm, which is the popular "oxtail braid" at that time.
In the late Qing Dynasty, especially after the Jiaqing Emperor, men's hairstyles were reformed again. During this period, they only need to shave off the hair on the top of the head and forehead, while the rest of the hair can be retained, and after a certain length, it is divided into three strands and braided to form the "yin and yang head" that we are familiar with.
This hairstyle has a very high rate in Qing court dramas, and has become one of the representative hairstyles of men in the Qing Dynasty.
In 1911, the flames of the Wuchang Uprising were ignited, and under the impact of new ideas, people cut off their long braids as a symbol of resistance. The following year, China ** issued a policy of cutting braids and making them easy to wear, and all localities responded positively.
Since then, the ugly braids that symbolize the Qing Dynasty have become the dust of history.
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