In China's ancient feudal society, the hairstyle of the Qing Dynasty can be said to be the most special, all men must shave their hair and leave a long braid, now the Qing Palace drama is popular, we can often see such a "yin and yang head" on TV, but the real Qing Dynasty hairstyle is not so, we are all misled by the TV series, the real hairstyle looks like it is difficult to say anything, if it is filmed into a TV series, it is estimated that no one wants to watch it at all.
The "yin and yang head" that we are familiar with is actually the hairstyle of the late Qing period, when the Manchu Qing has entered the customs for two hundred years to change customs, and the requirements for hairstyles have not been so strict, so we can see some photos handed down in the late Qing Dynasty, the man's forehead hair is shaved, and there is a long braid behind it, but in the early Qing Dynasty, the hairstyle requirements are particularly strict, and everyone must leave a "money rat tail".
In fact, the Manchu Qing were originally nomadic people, they had not yet entered the agricultural society, they needed to live by hunting, coupled with the poverty of materials, the people's wisdom had not yet been civilized, so the men shaved all their hair, so that it was convenient to hunt, and did not have to wash their hair, at that time, the Manchu Qing men only left a handful of coin-sized hair on the back of their heads, and the braids looked like a rat tail, so it was called the money rat tail.
After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, in order to suppress the people, they ordered everyone to shave their hair and leave a money rat tail, if someone has a slightly more hair range behind them, then they have to behead, the punishment is very strict, such a hairstyle is actually very ugly, and there is no culture and aesthetics to speak of, but under the coercion of the Qing Rulers, everyone can only shave their hair and change clothes, but by the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the hairstyle has changed, and in the late Qing Dynasty it became a "yin and yang head", do you think it looks good?