How dirty are the "braids" of the Qing Dynasty? English woman: Nausea to the point of vomiting, smelling that you can't eat
As we all know, in ancient times, hair was extremely important to people, and even put into the punishment, as a "calvary", we all know that cutting hair is harmless to the human body, but in ancient times, cutting hair was a very serious punishment, especially at the spiritual level. As everyone knows, after the Qing army entered the customs, the "shaving order" was implemented in the Central Plains. It stipulates that only one dollar of hair can be left on the top of the head, and if it is greater than one dollar, it will be executed, which weakens the awareness of han resistance in this way, thereby improving the status of the Qing rulers, and in the process of implementing the shaving order, the most tragic is the "Eighty-one Days of Jiangyin", resulting in more than 170,000 deaths at the hands of Qing soldiers, and only 53 old and young survived.
It is precisely because of this, the front hair of the Qing Dynasty people pushed light, the back of the head hair became a slender braid, but it is very difficult to manage, the Qing Dynasty royal family hair is often only washed once a month, when washing the hair, put some sesame seeds on the hair, apply some egg white, will make the hair black and shiny. According to relevant records, cixi will use good bird's nest to wash her hair when washing her hair, which is a luxury for ordinary people, who often jump into the river to bathe and wash their hair, and do not use any hair care items.
Therefore, it is very common for ordinary people in the Qing Dynasty not to wash their hair for several months, and a British lady once recorded in her diary that the hair of Qing Officials was still clean, and there were special people to take care of it, while the hair of ordinary people was very disgusting, and it was difficult to swallow when eating hundreds of meters apart. Although in the Qing Dynasty costume dramas, the scene of biting braids is very common, in real life, ordinary people do not have this courage, and they all know that braids are very dirty.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, young people who were educated by Western culture reduced their braids, and during the Republic of China, they began not to let long braids stay, and issued the "BraidIng Order", although this did not have the "Shaving Order" strict, many people of the older generation felt that the long braids were reduced, and the ancestors would not recognize themselves, so they did not want to reduce the braids, and they remained. What do you think about this?