As early as the "Book of Poetry, Zhou Nan, Guan Ju", it was described as "a lady, a gentleman is a good gentleman." "Since ancient times, we have been in the pursuit of beauty, and everyone has a heart for beauty, and everyone has a different beauty in their hearts. As the most intuitive performance of people, appearance can be described as one of the criteria for judging beauty, so as a hairstyle that highlights people's spirit, it is naturally a very important factor.
In ancient times, there were a very variety of hairstyles to set off the unique temperament of each individual. For us, the most familiar is the hairstyle of the Qing Dynasty, and a large number of "Qing Palace Dramas" have made us form an inherent understanding of the hairstyles of the Qing Dynasty. But don't be deceived by the "Qing Palace Drama", the hairstyle during the Qing Dynasty is not at all like this in the film and television, it is much uglier than in the play!
Since ancient times, with the continuous development and progress of life, people have also begun to pursue spiritual living standards, and grooming has attracted people's attention as the most accessible external performance. Each person's hair has its own uniqueness because of the presence of DNA, so the hairstyle is also produced to express the unique charm of the individual.
It is recorded in the "Zhou Li" that from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, a variety of hairstyles have slowly shown a unified trend. With the advancement of aesthetics, the shawl has been replaced by coiled hair on the top of the head. Men of the Zhou Dynasty have used braids as the most mainstream hairstyle, and tie long hair on the top of the head in a regular manner, but there are still many maverick people.
Until the Unification of the Six Kingdoms by the Qin Dynasty, men's hairstyles finally obtained a unified aesthetic customization, tied on the crown, tied up the hair on the top of the head and decorated with a crown hat, very decent and heroic. In the Han Dynasty's "Dai Li Ji Bao Fu", it is recorded that "tie your hair and go to university, learn great art, and perform great festivals." "Hair bunches have been passed down as a standard hairstyle for men since the Qin and Han dynasties.
In the portraits of the major ancients we have now restored, the hair bunches are their standard hairstyles, and they are also sought after by various literati, until the Qing Dynasty period ushered in major changes. In 1644, the Qing army entered the customs and the Qing Dynasty, which was dominated by the Jurchens, was established, and the culture of the Jurchens had a powerful impact on the Central Plains.
As a nomadic people who made their fortunes on the grasslands, the cultural traditions of the Jurchens have preserved the unique characteristics of the grasslands and nomadic peoples. The original Jurchen hairstyle retains its casual character, and it is also very common for the shawl to be distributed. With the exchange and collision of civilizations with different customs on the grasslands, the Jurchens have also undergone some changes.
In order to ensure their uniqueness, the Jurchens braided their long hair shawls and braided them, and also left two braids on the sides of their cheeks, with unique Jurchen costumes, which are very grasslandy. After the Qing army entered the customs, for those Remnants of the Ming Dynasty and the Han people who rebelled, the Qing Dynasty adopted a strict "hair cutting order" to conquer them from appearance.
Every Han and Ming dynasty remnant had to shave off all of their previous hair and braid it according to the qing dynasty's requirements. According to Qin Shizhen's "Fuzhe Tancao", the people at that time were a "small braided hair" hairstyle, and for the Han people, the execution of the hair cutting order was quite humiliating, but if it was not executed, it would be executed by the imperial court, so it was forced to execute.
In the book "Qing Customs Chronicle", it is recorded that the braids of the Qing Dynasty at that time were very unique and standard, and were called "money rat tails". A knot similar to the size of a copper coin is used to form the hair into a long braid of double lines, shaped like a mouse's tail, hence the name.
Qing Dynasty hairstyles were not just braids, in the early days, people had no hair anywhere except the braids on the top of their heads, only a handful of thin braids, and the amount of hair on the top of the head was extremely rare. Foreigners are jokingly called "pig tail" after seeing it, which is a veritable non-mainstream hairstyle in today's day, which is really not appreciated.
Fortunately, since the Qianlong era, hairstyles and braids have been continuously improved and adjusted, and finally formed the "yin and yang head" hairstyle that we are familiar with in most film and television dramas, and the amount of hair has been greatly improved. However, this is already the final hairstyle of the late Qing Dynasty, which is very inconsistent with most film and television dramas in the Qianlong and Kangxi years.
Hairstyles can intuitively improve a person's mental outlook, and a good hairstyle can make our appearance have a rebirth- Braids from the Qing Dynasty lasted until 1911. In the Qing Dynasty at that time, everyone thought that braids were extremely beautiful, but they did not know that this was not the case in the hearts of more people, which had to be said to be an era when we lagged behind the world's aesthetics.
Our quest for beauty continues, but more people have extended the definition of "beauty" to deeper places. Hairstyles and appearances are very important things, but they are no longer so limited in our current philosophy. The most beautiful is always the confident person, and being bold in yourself is the most unique beauty.