For why the Qing Dynasty people kept a braid, someone gave an explanation: "The ancestors of the Rulers of the Qing Dynasty were Jurchens, Jurchens were good at riding and shooting, and they could fight, and the hairstyles left were mainly for the people who wore helmets when fighting, and it was not hot inside." So marching to fight, when camping at night, put your braids up, and you can directly use them as pillows. ”
forehead! Is this true!
If it is hot inside with a helmet, then the Han people have been wearing helmets to fight for thousands of years, and they have not seen the soldiers who are bald.
In fact, the braids are entirely because the wind in the northeast is too strong, and the nomads ride horses and hunt every day, and the wind blows to block the view. So the front was shaved and a small braid was left in the back. In fact, braids were not only found in the Qing Dynasty, and the Manchu ancestors were like this a thousand years ago.
Han people pay attention to the body hair skin by their parents, eager not to shave their heads for a lifetime, so why did the Han people in the Qing Dynasty also keep braids!
The popular explanation now goes like this: "After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, in order to make the Han people submit to the Qing Dynasty, they ordered that their hair should not be kept." All people must wear braids! ”
forehead! Is this really the case! In fact, the earliest Zhang Luo to change his hairstyle is still Han!
At the beginning of the dynasty's entry into the pass, the political power had not yet been fully consolidated, and the Manchu and Han officials of the upper dynasty were divided into two sides, and what head shape they were willing to keep was a matter for the Han people themselves. Nor was it strictly stipulated that Han courtiers must wear the imperial clothes prescribed by the Qing court as later. Therefore, when Han Chen and Manchu were in the dynasty, the costumes were inconsistent, the Manchus were dressed in full clothes, the Han ministers were all crowned and beautiful, the Han people were dressed, and the Manchu and Han ministers each stood in a shift.
After the surrender, sun zhizhu shaved his hair and changed to full clothing, but he was discriminated against at both ends. The Manchus, who considered themselves superior, did not recognize him and would not let him stand in the ranks of the Manchus. The Han officials were disgusted by his behavior and did not allow him to join the class. With both sides unpopular, Sun Zhizhuo, annoyed and ashamed, gave a note to the then regent Dorgon, asking him to shave the Han people's hair, and said that the Han people's clothing and hair tie system still maintained the previous habit, that is, Your Majesty you obey China, not China obeys Your Majesty.
Sun's words struck Dorgon in the nerves. In June of the second year of Shunzhi (1645), the Qing government praised the "shaving order", stipulating that "the head should not be left behind, and the hair should not be left", so there was a "pig's tail" in the early Qing Dynasty.
Two or three hundred years, the braid style has changed greatly, from the earliest money rat tail, leaving only a small braid the size of a copper coin, to be able to pass through the copper coin eye. Later, it slowly thickened, and the rat tail became a snake's tail, and finally became as thick as a cow's tail!