With the development of the economy, our entertainment and pastimes are also more and more, but chasing drama is still the favorite of the majority of girls, and in recent years, the number of Qing Palace dramas in our country has gradually increased, which is not only because of the many events that occurred in the Qing Dynasty, but also because there are many historical values worth studying.
And the braids left by Qing Dynasty men are not as handsome as we see in the play, in order to make the actors more photogenic, in the Qing Palace drama is a certain beautification of the actors, we can also understand this, so what is the real Qing Dynasty man braid? How are they different from the braids of men in the Qing Palace drama? Let's analyze it together:
Impression of the Qing Dynasty braids
We all know that the men of the Qing Dynasty wore their hair in pigtails, which was also the most significant feature of that period. In the Qing Palace dramas we are currently seeing, most of the men's hairstyles are shaved in the front and have hair in the back, and they are also combed up and braided into a long braid.
For example, in "Step by Step", it left a deep impression. The handsome image of Yongzheng in the play has won him a lot of good feelings, including his brothers are also very good-looking, as if to bring people back to the Qing Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago.
There is also a very interesting thing in the play, Yongzheng in the play does not like others to touch his braids, which also arouses people's great curiosity. On the contrary, people pay more attention to his small braids, and the impression left on us by looking back at these pictures is very profound.
As we all know, Qing Palace drama as a way of people's daily life pastime, we have been inseparable from these dramas, and usually when we watch, qing palace dramas leave us with a gorgeous and beautiful impression, in fact, that is because the actors have undergone makeup, beauty, lighting modification, and post-production and so on, there are many steps, we see is the final version of the beautification.
However, in the real Qing Dynasty period in history, there was no lighting at that time, the post-processing of skin grinding, and people in real life would not be as handsome as those actors. It is conceivable that even some celebrities can't control the hairstyles of the Qing Dynasty, let alone ordinary people. So many people will also wonder, since it is not good-looking, why do men still have long braids?
In fact, they were not voluntary, but at that time, after the Qing army entered the customs, the emperor issued an order, wherever the Qing army passed, within 10 days, all people should change their hairstyles to the same style as the Qing army, and if there were people who disobeyed, they would be executed immediately.
Moreover, the hairstyle prescribed by the imperial court at this time was not the "yin and yang head" that we commonly saw in the later period, but a hairstyle called "money rat tail style".
"How hairstyles evolved
As the name suggests, the money rat tail style is to shave all the hair on the head, leaving only a strand of hair the size of copper money on the back of the head, and then braiding them into small braids, and because the back of the head is bare with a braid, it looks like a mouse's tail, so it has the nickname of "money rat tail".
The reason why the Qing army issued such an order was also for two reasons, first of all, because the Manchus needed to ride horses and fight wars for many years, and if they grew their hair, it would only affect their combat, which was completely beneficial, so the Manchus at that time were popular with money rattails.
On the other hand, this practice can also suppress the Han people from the psychological level, to know that in the society at that time, feudal thinking was serious, and the Han people believed in "the parents of the body hair and skin", so people at that time were from childhood to keep hair, comb their hair when they grew up, and never cut their hair.
But what is the way, if they do not obey the order, they will lose their lives, so instead of insisting on this idea or saving their lives, although this practice is a great shame for the Han people, but they have to obey, at the beginning there are many people who insist on resisting shaving, but as more and more people sacrifice, people gradually get used to this hairstyle.
After the Jiaqing Emperor took the throne, the braid began to change, and this event is also recorded in the historical data of the Japanese. It is said that at that time, the area of people's hair was more than the size of a copper coin, and it could be about the size of four copper coins.
And in the hundreds of years since then, the braids have also slowly become thicker, from the initial rat tail to the later pig's tail, so far, the braid changes have not stopped.
By the end of the Qing Dynasty, people's hair completely changed from the original "money rat tail style" to "yin and yang head", which is the image of men in modern Qing palace dramas. A straight line at the top of the brain gate is used as the midline, the first half is shaved, and the back half is all braided into braids.
As for the yin and yang head, people at that time also had a different statement, the Army of the Qing Dynasty believed that after the hair was kept like this, after the braids became thicker, they could wrap the braids around their necks when they sent troops to fight, which was also to better protect themselves and prevent the enemy from hitting their necks, which was indeed unexpected.
epilogue
After understanding the history of the Qing Dynasty's pigtails, let us deeply realize that men's braids are not only the bad habits of feudal society, but also the history of humiliation imposed on the people by feudal rulers, fortunately, with the development of society, the feudal dynasty has been overthrown, and now we no longer have to suffer oppression, and no one forces us to do anything. And as people's minds have gradually improved, our society has become more equitable.
Through this incident, we also know that many modern crews do not cautiously pursue the truth when filming, and make hairstyles for actors according to history, more for the sake of beauty, how to decorate well. Therefore, here we also call on the majority of modeling teachers to respect history and restore history, because among the audience chasing the drama, there are still a large part of minors, and excessive glorification of historical figures will only make them adversely affected.
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