Beard is a sign of male maturity, and beards are often used to refer to men, such as "scarf does not let the eyebrows". In Europe, if a woman grows a beard, she will be socially discriminated against as a "wolf girl". The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classics refer to men who are born without beards as "heavenly eunuchs", believing that they have qi and no blood.
The Jews believed that the beard was a symbol of strength and was endowed with masculinity, and in the Old Testament, in order to insult the Jews, the Armonites shaved off half the beards of Jewish envoys.
In Egypt, beards symbolized power, and only pharaohs were entitled to grow beards, and if the pharaoh did not have enough beards on his face, he had to paste a false beard into his jaw, and even female pharaohs had to paste this false beard. For example, the statue of Hatshepsut of the 18th Dynasty of ancient Egypt has a beard on it.
For example, people believe that the main reason for the fall of the Roman Empire was that they shaved off their beards, and these Romans were keen to take a bath and were very feminine, so they were defeated by bearded barbarians.
Moreover, the ancient Romans also liked to pluck the sweat hair from their bodies, making the baths scream. So in the Middle Ages after the fall of Rome, beards were very popular and very cherished.
Moore, the author of Utopia, said to the executioners when he went to the guillotine: "My beard has not sinned, do not cut them off." "It can be seen that people love beards.
At the end of the 19th century, after returning from a visit to Western Europe, Peter I began a revolution around beards. Peter I gathered the nobles together and cut off their long beards, and the Russian nobles at that time, living a carefree life, tended their beards all day long, thinking that this was a God-given ornament, but in Peter I's view it was a symbol of backwardness.
Later Peter I issued an order that whoever wanted to grow a beard needed to pay money, the rich merchant needed 100 rubles, the officials needed to pay 60 rubles, the citizens needed 30 rubles, and the peasants could grow beards, but 1 ruble was needed every time they entered the city.
Later, during the reign of Empress Catherine II, the ban was abolished. So many Russians began to grow beards again, and during the Soviet period, whether it was Lenin's goatee or Stalin's beard, everyone liked to grow a beard.
In the early days of the Republic of China, the most popular was Cao Kun's horn beard, which is said to have been spearheaded by the German Emperor Wilhelm II, and then the tradition of bearding was also transmitted to Japan, and then from Japan back to China.
The reason why Wilhelm II was able to form a bull horn is said to have deliberately fixed it with glue, forming an exaggerated provocation. This beard, also known as "William Beard", or "Caesar Beard", is very troublesome to manage.
During the Republic of China period, Japanese goods entered China in large numbers, and the advertisement of Rendan on the half of the body was the most widely circulated. On the advertising page, a soldier with a horned beard was later used as a "signpost" for the invaders. Later, in many film and television dramas, the agent posted a bull horn beard advertisement at the intersection, as long as both sides of the beard are upturned, it means that the road is smooth, when the left corner of the beard droops, it means that the left side is not passable, the right side is drooping, indicating that the right side is not passable, and the beard on both sides is drooping, which means a dead end.
Therefore, many people also call this kind of beard "Ren Dan Hu", during the "May Fourth" period, anti-Japanese sentiment was high, rumors of Japanese poisoning spread in the Shanghai area, and cheng Kun, the governor of Zhejiang at the time, was mistaken for a suspect in poisoning in Japan because he was wearing civilian clothes and keeping "Ren Dan Hu".
Because Guan Chengkun spoke Taizhou dialect in Zhejiang Province and could not speak Shanghai dialect, it was difficult for the two sides to communicate, resulting in being beaten to death by the people.
We also see the most in film and television dramas is a beard, leaving a small poke under the nose, this beard is also called "sanitary beard".
In the First World War, a large amount of poison gas was used, so it was necessary to wear a gas mask when fighting, but because the mask of the eight-character beard was in the way, the "eight-character beard" was changed to "sanitary beard".
At that time, Japan sent a large number of international students to study in Germany, so the German "sanitary beard" gradually became popular in Japan. China's northwestern generals also once popularized this kind of "sanitary beard", but after the "918 Incident", people associated "sanitary beard" with the Japanese, so Chinese officers changed the style of beard. Under the influence of future film and television drama works, "sanitary beard" has become a symbol of the Japanese invaders, and its appearance is also ugly and obscene.