In 1644, Wu Sangui and Dolgun defeated Li Zicheng outside Shanhaiguan, successfully entered the pass and occupied Beijing. Since then, the Qing Dynasty has replaced the Ming Dynasty as the new ruler of China.
After the Qing Dynasty settled the Central Plains, the regent Dorgon successively issued the "Shaving Order" and the "Easy Dress Order", forcibly requiring the Han people in the Central Plains to change their Manchu hairstyles and wear Manchu costumes, which is known in history as "shaving hair and changing clothes".
This must have been the world has been settled, and the smoke will quickly rise, and the parents who suffer from the skin of the body in the eyes of the Han people will not be filial if they are damaged.
The people think that the change of dynasty is tolerable, shaving hair and changing clothes is absolutely unacceptable, after all, the Han people pay attention to filial piety first, shaving is to seriously undermine this principle, the whole country launched a fierce resistance, but Dorgon did not pay attention to the resistance, he believes that the system must be implemented, after all, between life and death, many people choose to live.
Dorgon believed that in order to subdue the Han people, it was necessary to change their national habits, so that the Qing government would not assimilate the Han people, shaving their hair and changing clothes must be the best choice, but also to ensure the safety of the Manchus, but also to reduce the sense of resistance of the Han people.
Dorgon was also fully prepared, this Eight Banners cavalry was invincible, he was very satisfied with his army, if the Han people opposed it, then suppress it by force, it can be said that the Qing government made complete preparations for the implementation of "shaving hair and changing clothes".
Although Dorgon thought that the Han people would resist, he could not imagine that the resistance was so strong, and the fundamental reason was that yifu could agree, and shaving his hair could not be agreed, after all, the Confucian advocate of filial piety, especially the sentence "The body is skinned, the parents are affected, do not dare to destroy, and the beginning of filial piety." ”
From ancient times to the present, the Han people attach great importance to "hair", and Dorgon's order must have been to restart the war in the world.
Dorgon and other Manchu Qing high-level officials wanted to use the high-pressure policy to make the Han people submit, but this made the world in chaos, and the rebellion in Jiangyin and Jiading in the Jiangnan region was extremely fierce, and it can be said that the head can be broken and the hair is not shaved.
The Qing court also sent troops to Jiangyin and Jiading to carry out brutal suppression, and both the Qing army and the officers and men defending the city paid a heavy price.
However, the Qing army still used strong military pressure to successfully implement the "shaving hair and changing clothes" throughout the country.
The reason why Dorgon would force "shaving his hair and changing clothes" was to strike at the traditional culture of the Central Plains, but this process must have gone through countless difficulties, after all, this matter almost shook the foundation of Manchu rule, which is also a reason why the chaos in the early Qing Dynasty continued.