The truth about Qing Dynasty hairstyles? The film and television are misleading, and the truth is complex and difficult to tell.
In 1616, Nurhachi, the leader of the Jurchens in Jianzhou, founded Houjin. In 1636, the Han, Manchu and Mongolian tribes wrote together, and Huang Taiji took the opportunity to declare himself emperor and changed the name of the country to the Qing Dynasty.
In 1644, Wu Sangui, a Ming general who was originally responsible for defending Shanhaiguan, betrayed the Ming Dynasty and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Dolgon seized this opportunity to lead the Qing army into the pass, and eventually pacified the Dashun, Daxi, and Southern Ming regimes.
During the Kangxi period, feats such as pacifying the three feudatories and unifying Taiwan brought the Manchu Dynasty to its peak. During this period, Chinese society made unprecedented achievements in development, and the social life of the small-scale peasant economy gradually prospered and stabilized.
However, in order to ensure his rule, Emperor Qianlong implemented a policy of seclusion and seclusion. Subsequently, successive monarchs insisted on feudal rule as a national policy, resulting in the Qing Dynasty losing all advantages in the face of Western powers.
When talking about the Qing Dynasty, people will always have all kinds of arguments, and there are countless film and television works, but when it comes to the "yin and yang" in it, the truth is not so. The hairstyles of the Qing Dynasty in real history are actually complex and diverse.
To understand the merits and demerits of the Qing Dynasty, it is necessary to start with its real historical development. First of all, the Qing Dynasty ensured a long period of unity and stability in China during its 268 years of rule, which is a positive aspect.
If the rebellion of the three feudatories had not been quelled, and the power of the three feudatories continued to grow and even the country, then the future development of the Qing Dynasty would have been seriously affected. The emergence of the prosperous era of Kangxi will come to naught.
Therefore, from this point of view, the Qing rulers should be respected by us. At the same time, the rule of the Qing Dynasty not only expanded China's territory and laid the foundation for the territory of modern China, but also promoted the integration of various ethnic cultures.
The blending here is not only the blending of Wuhu and the Han people in the past, but the deep blending of traditional culture.
Although the Manchus still maintain their identity as an independent nation, their language, writing, customs, way of life, and way of thinking have been highly integrated with the Han people, and there are no obvious differences.
In the early days of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it was understandable that there was a certain amount of exclusion between the Han and the Manchus.
During the reign of the Qing Dynasty, the people were subjected to inhumane abuse through large-scale ** and other means, and this atrocity is still terrifying today. At the same time, land enclosure and investment have seriously hindered the development of the domestic economy, while the isolation of the country has prevented exchanges between China and foreign countries, resulting in the country moving from strength to weakness.
The Qing rulers seemed to focus more on the obedience of the people than on the prosperity of the country. This is also reflected in their neglect of science and technology, and compared to other dynasties in Chinese history, the Qing Dynasty did not have much to be proud of in terms of scientific and technological inventions.
In film and television dramas, we can often see a hairstyle known as "yin and yang head", which is the Qing Dynasty rulers in order to maintain their rule, forcing the Han people to change their hairstyle.
This practice deeply hurt the feelings of the Han people. The Han nation is deeply influenced by Confucianism, and its body has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. However, the Qing rulers gave them only two options: either shave their hair or have their heads beheaded.
Don't be misled by the "yin and yang heads" in film and television dramas, because the real Qing Dynasty "yin and yang heads" are different from our common images. Initially, the Qing Dynasty allowed Han Chinese to keep only a small amount of hair, which was far less dense than in film and television works.
Therefore, there was a Han Chinese who raised objections, but after he was suppressed by the government, he even went to the capital to ask for help. However, instead of expressing sympathy, the emperor ordered severe punishment, along with all three of his clans.
Since then, no one has dared to entangle with the emperor on the matter of yin and yang. Fortunately, as time went by, there were more and more Han people in the Qing Dynasty, and the influence of Han culture on the Manchus became more and more far-reaching, and the Qing rulers realized that blindly oppressing the Han people would only lead to their own demise.
In addition, from the Kangxi period, they were educated in Han culture, so they also began to understand the importance that the Han people attached to hair.
In this context, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong and others gradually relaxed the restrictions on yin and yang heads, so that the hair of the palace nobles and ordinary people began to gradually regain their vitality.
Otherwise, the scene we see in film and television works today will undoubtedly be very different.
Although modern people may think that shaving their hair is not a big deal, at the time, it was indeed an insult to the thousands of years of cultural influence and traditions of the Han people.
The Qing Dynasty's rule faced both class and national pressures, and if a policy of tolerance was not adopted soon, the ruling position would be in jeopardy.