In all kinds of costume dramas, you can see women dressed up as men in disguise to run around the rivers and lakes, such a dress is very obvious in the eyes of our audience, a look at it knows that it is a woman dressed as a man, but in the play, no one can see. The undeniable fact is for the needs of some plots, but some women dressed as men in ancient times are really difficult to find, what is the reason?
In ancient times, we all know that women are in the deep boudoir at home, and the door does not go out of the second door, so that it can be regarded as abiding by the morality of women. But there are also very few cases, in our familiar china's classic folk tale "Mulan", the story of Mulan for her father to join the army is well-known, although Mulan is a daughter, with men to fight with the army for decades have not been discovered, so in ancient times, it is not impossible for girls to recognize after dressing up as men.
So why wasn't Mulan, who served in the army for her father, not recognized? There are the following reasons, the first is because Mulan has a high status in the military, so it can have a place to rest alone. The second is that Mulan is a minority person, physically more burly than the average girl, and it is difficult to recognize after being disguised.
There is also what we mentioned before, ancient women in the eyes of people should be in the deep boudoir, embroidery, help the family to do housework or something, if the woman often goes out, it will make people feel very debauched, let people point out behind the back, so in the mind will not feel that there will be women will dress as men to go out. There is also a point in the ancient division of clothes, in ancient times the clothing of men and women is very exquisite, men wear robes, women wear skirts. So even if a woman dresses as a man and goes out, she will wrap her long hair with a hat. Hairstyles were also very exquisite in ancient times, and if women put their hair on the outside with great fanfare, they would definitely attract attention on the street, and even attract hooligans.
Even in today's society, girls cut their hair short, and it just so happens that the voice is more like a boy, walking on the road we are difficult to distinguish clearly whether it is a man or a woman, so the same reason, in ancient times, women dressed as men we are not so easy to distinguish, don't be deceived by costume dramas.