The head can be broken, and the hairstyle should not be messed up!
No matter when, the hairstyle is very important, indirectly determining a person's appearance.
Modern people in order to facilitate life, do things sharply, most men have short hair, only a few people who pursue art, still have long hair.
In ancient China, the ancients kept long hair, because the ancients paid attention to "the body hair skin by the parents", if you hurt the hair at will, it is a great disrespect to the parents, so the ancients in order to pursue filial piety, they all grew long hair.
In the dynasties of ancient China, each dynasty had hair, but one dynasty shaved half of its hair. Yes, this dynasty is the Qing Dynasty. When watching film and television dramas, many people can't tell whether this is the Han Dynasty, or the Tang Dynasty, or the Ming Dynasty, because the hairstyles and costumes are basically similar.
However, the TV series of the Qing Dynasty can be seen at a glance, because the hairstyle is very eye-catching and special. Later generations called the Qing Dynasty hairstyle "braided head" because there was a long braid behind the head.
After the Qing army entered the pass, in order to strengthen its rule, the Han people were allowed to keep their braids, and if they did not leave, they left their heads behind. Forced by the obscenity of the rulers, the Han people all grew pigtails. In the inherent concept, many people think that the Han people were forced to wear pigtails from the Beginning of the Qing Dynasty, but it is not.
The Han chinese were forced to wear pigtails, which began very early on.
In the first year of Song Jingkang (1127 AD), Emperor Taizong of Jin sent Yan Zongbi to lead an army to attack the Song Dynasty, and after several battles between Song and Jin, the capital of the Song Dynasty, Bieliang, was attacked by Jin soldiers, and the Song Dynasty perished.
After hearing this, King Zhao of Kang hurriedly fled south, and with the support of everyone, Zhao Shuo proclaimed himself emperor at Yingtianfu (Shangqiu) in Nanjing, continuing the Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty. Subsequently, Zhao Zhao moved the capital (fled) to Lin'an, where he fought with the Jin people to the death.
After Zhao Zhao fled south, the northern land had been captured by Jin soldiers and became the territory of the Jin State. At that time, a large number of Han Chinese lived in the north, and they naturally became prisoners of the Jin people.
In order to effectively rule the Han people, Yan Sheng issued an order for the Han people to wear the clothes of the Jurchens and keep the hairstyles of the Jurchens. What is the hairstyle of the Jurchens? It is to shave the hair on the top of the head and keep small braids on both sides.
When the Han people heard that they wanted to shave their hair, they definitely did not agree, but the Jin people said that they would leave their heads without braids.
Forced by the obscenity of the Jin people, the Han people in the north could only shave their hair and keep it into the hairstyle of the Jin kingdom. Since the golden man also has pigtails, why do so few people know? That's because posterity regarded the Southern Song Dynasty as an orthodox dynasty, and everyone focused on the Southern Song Dynasty and ignored the Jin Dynasty.
On the other hand, the Qing Dynasty is different, it is a unified dynasty, the whole people have braided heads, so the impression is very profound.
The Qing Emperor Ai Xinjue Luo clan was also a Jurchen clan, and the regime they had just established was "Dajin", which means that they inherited the Jin Dynasty of the Yan clan, and then the Emperor Taiji changed the Dajin to Daqing.
Whether it is the Finished Yan Clan or the Ai Xinjue Luo Clan, they are all Jurchen clans, and they all like to keep braids, which can be described as the same lineage. Braiding was a Jurchen custom that remained until the fall of the Qing Dynasty.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, people began to shave their hair, but some Han Chinese did not shave alive and dead, expressing their loyalty to the Qing Dynasty. On the contrary, there are some Manchus, who are very active in shaving their hair, because they think that shaving is a Han custom!
After three hundred years of shaving, some people can't tell whether they should shave their hair or not, and some people even forget who they are.
References: History of the Song Dynasty, History of Jin, Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, etc