A friend mentioned his question on a Q&A platform:
Why is it that when it comes to shaving hair and changing clothes in the early Qing Dynasty, netizens are indignant, and they silently accept the hair accessories that have been westernized in Western society now?
To explain clearly, it only takes two sentences.
Even birds yearn for the blue sky and don't want to be kept in cages.
Freedom is not to do what you want, but to do what you don't want to do, you can do not do.
After telling the conclusion, let's tell the story.
Many people know that leaving a head without hair, leaving a hair without a head.
In fact, there are still some people who do not know that the hairstyle in the current Qing Palace drama appeared after a long time of development.
The ruler of the Qing Dynasty, the hairstyle that the Ming dynasty people accepted, was the money rat tail.
(Qing Dynasty hairstyle changes)
That is, the whole head, almost shaved, leaving only a copper coin the size of a piece on the top of the head and the back of the head, and braiding the hair there into braids.
Brother, people are a little aesthetic, okay?
How comfortable am I to be ugly like this?
Foreign races entered the Central Plains, and there were ancient ones, and those who attacked the Western Zhou Dynasty had the army of Inuyasha.
In the Han Dynasty, princesses and relatives were passed down as good stories by later generations. At that time, it was a last resort, and it was a manifestation of the strength of the Huns.
Not to mention that in the era of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, all ethnic groups sang and sang and appeared on the stage, and there was chaos everywhere.
Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition to the Yuan Dynasty, the text also wrote:
Since the Song Zuo moved, Di north of the Yuan Dynasty entered China, within the four seas, and did not surrender, this manpower is indeed a divine gift.
God granted...
Yes, Zhu Yuanzhang, that's what they said.
This means that the change of dynasties is a natural phenomenon.
As long as you can continue to read the books of The Sage of Kong, wear the clothes of the right side, and keep the hairstyle of the old ancestors, it does not matter who is in the court.
But the Qing Dynasty changed all this.
Clothes to change, hairstyles to change...
This breaks the bottom line.
Therefore, resistance will rise up.
Therefore, the Dashun army and the Great Western Army that forced the Chongzhen Emperor to die would unite with the remnants of the Ming Dynasty--not sharing the revenge of heaven, in the face of the Military and Cultural Offensive of the Qing Dynasty, it was nothing.
After talking about the Qing Dynasty, let's talk about Japan.
We know that in the shogunate era, when samurai were in charge, their hairstyles, Tsukidai-tsukiyo, in the eyes of the Nakahara Dynasty, hollowed out in the middle and left on both sides, were Yidi-like--gradually became a common hairstyle in the Japanese.
(Moon Generation Head Stills)
Along with the Meiji Restoration, an order to dispense the knife was soon issued.
In fact, it was to keep the hair, untie the bun, and leave the scraped off, becoming the short hair that was common in the West at that time.
The samurai's two swords are also recommended to be placed at home.
Yes, it's advocacy.
Distributing the knife is an important part of the civilization and its external manifestation.
It is not as mandatory as in the early Qing Dynasty, and it can be freely chosen.
Just like Meiji Shigeto Iwakura, as a mission to Europe and the United States, ito Hirobumi and others who accompanied him were all dressed in short suits and had only kimono cupolas.
When I arrived in the United States, the Japanese students said, you are a symbol of barbarism... Lost the face of the country... He was only in Boston—if I remember correctly—shaved his hair and changed his clothes.
(The middle seat is Iwakura)
Although it is said to be advocated, in fact, in the process of implementation, is there any compulsion?
What kind of mental pressure is there for those who don't want to shave their hair?
In the movie "The Last Samurai", there is a wonderful description of this, and interested friends can go to see it.
However, compared with the shaving and easy clothes in the early Qing Dynasty, the shaving and easy clothes in Japan in the Meiji era caused much less disgust.
To put it bluntly, it is exactly what I have come to conclude in front of you, that you have the freedom to choose not to shave.
If you really can't stand the blank stare, that's your business.
However, this is fundamentally different from putting a knife on the neck.