Nowadays, many costume TV series are based on the theme of the Qing Dynasty, and many girls have also given birth to the idea of crossing back to the Qing Dynasty, and those handsome brothers have an intersection, and the biggest feature of the Qing Palace drama is their "yin and yang head".
This hairstyle is not acceptable to many people, but was it really like this in the Qing Dynasty?
In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchus established the Qing Dynasty with the success of hundreds of thousands of people, and in order to better rule the country, the Manchus took many measures, they promoted Confucianism, shaved their hair and changed their clothes.
They want to change and influence the Han people in terms of culture and customs to achieve the purpose of consolidating their rule.
In 1644, the Qing soldiers entered the customs and immediately issued a "shaving order", stipulating that both officials and civilians should shave their heads within ten days, and those who did not obey should be beheaded.
In the past, the ancients believed in "body hair skin, parents", both men and women should grow hair, and the style of the literati is also particularly charming. You can imagine how difficult this order is for the Han people to accept.
"Leave people without hair, keep hair without people." The Manchus and Han Chinese each have two sets of cultural systems, and have different understandings of hair.
In the early Qing Dynasty, shaving hair was used as a strategy to govern the country, and from the resistance of the vast number of Han people in the Eastern Liaoning region to the countless anti-shaving struggles after the Qing Dynasty, thousands of Han people paid great sacrifices for it. At this time, the hair growth part has quietly and silently gradually moved from the back of the head to the top of the head, but it can still be called the money rattail style.
In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, after the massacre in the early Qing Dynasty, the hairstyle changed since the beginning of Jiaqing. Although the area of hair on the top of the head has not changed, the area is far more than one money, but it is four or five money large, equivalent to the area of a palm, and the number of hair is significantly increased. The beard also changed from leaving only a few left and right of the upper lip to a whole including the chin.
In the late Qing Dynasty, that is, after Jiaqing, the men's hairstyle gradually evolved into shaving only inches around the top hair, while retaining long hair in the middle, braided into three strands and hanging behind the head, called braids or hair braids.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, in the revolutionary struggle waged by the enlightened intellectual youth and students, cutting braids was an important part. From the end of the Qing Dynasty to the end of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, braid cutting became a nationwide revolutionary movement from bottom to top and from top to bottom.
In the later period, the area of hair storage gradually expanded, from a copper coin to the size of the palm to the entire back of the head, the thickness of the braid increased accordingly as the amount of hair increased, and the figurative metaphor was to change from a rat tail to a pig's tail and then evolved to the size of a cow's tail.