I don't know if you have heard such a sentence - "The head can be broken, the blood can flow, and the hairstyle cannot be messed up!" Of course, the original words are not like this, this is a sentence adapted by girls who love beauty, for the vast majority of women, hairstyles are very important, for their own hair, they do not hesitate to spend thousands, tens of thousands of yuan a year, even ordinary people, every year will spend some money on hairstyles.
In the 21st century today, I believe that few people will exceed 4 days, or even 5 days without washing their hair, Xiaobian today to tell you about the hair of the Qing Dynasty, not to mention 5 days, they often do not wash their hair for more than 1 month, when they encounter major events, they do not wash their hair for 100 days, the "taste", simply dare not think, the foreign missionaries who smelled it at that time directly wanted to vomit, so why did they not wash their hair? Let's see.
On April 7, 1644, the regent Dolgun led the Qing army south, and soon after, he joined forces with Wu Sangui to defeat Li Zicheng, the king of the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing army officially entered the Central Plains, and then set the capital in Beijing, officially beginning their rule, the Qing rule involved all aspects, even the "hair" they had to manage.
A few months later, a "slogan" spread throughout China, that is, "leave your head without hair, leave your hair without your head", known in history as the "shaving order", and forcibly demanded that the Han and ethnic minorities in the south change their Manchu hairstyles, with the aim of controlling people ideologically, weakening their sense of resistance, and consolidating the position of the rulers of the Qing Dynasty.
However, the old saying has clouds, "body hair skin, by the parents", China's ancients have always attached great importance to their own hair, absolutely can not easily touch it, cherish it too much, so the "shaving order" came out, the people everywhere protested, the Qing government fire came up, directly said, within 10 days do not shave the head, directly executed, people had to start from, Chinese men more than 200 years of braid history officially began.
For countless ordinary people who have to work every day, this braid is really a hindrance, and everyone does not have spare money to buy any soap horn to wash their hair, or get some ginger to maintain their hair, not to mention how difficult it is to dry without a hair dryer, so it is common to not wash your hair for ten days and half a month.
According to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty imperial court at that time, when encountering such a major event as national mourning, it is necessary to keep filial piety for 100 days, and no one in the palace can wash their hair for 100 days. I'm afraid it can really make people faint.
In 1840, the British invaders opened the door to China, for the first time to see the legendary Eastern powers, many missionaries came to see the China depicted in the book, and as a result, the unlucky missionaries had not had time to experience the beauty of China, and they were "fainted" by Chinese men who did not wash their hair for dozens of days.
After returning to China, he even wrote in the book that "Chinese men have very ugly hairstyles, and are very unhygienic, even in the hot summer, they do not wash their hair, and they can smell the smell from afar", which led to a very poor impression of Chinese in the Western world at that time, and later did not dare to go near the Chinese, and also drew some "insulting cartoons", which seriously affected the image of our country.
In 1912, the Qing government went to its demise, "cutting braids" became the top priority for men in the country, and soon, the braids of the Qing Dynasty withdrew from the stage of history, and in the following days, Chinese showed a new look to the world.