Qing Palace Opera has been popular on TV dramas for many years. Many people are also used to Qing Dynasty costumes. After watching it for a long time, it feels pretty good. For example, Chen Daoming played Kangxi, and the Qing harem heroines of Yingyingyanyan. Even many people will learn the lines inside and call themselves "minions", calling themselves "scum". So, is the Qing Dynasty costume really like this? What is the pigtail of the Qing Dynasty? Don't be misled by TV shows anymore, it's actually even uglier than the show?
If we have a "God's perspective", then we will definitely find that there is a big difference between the Chinese in the pre-Qin and the Chinese in and in the Han Dynasty; the Chinese in the Han Dynasty and the Jindao The Chinese in the Song Dynasty are very different; but the basic costumes of the Chinese in the Ming Dynasty and before the Ming Dynasty are the same; while the costumes of the Chinese after the Qing Dynasty are completely different from the previous Chinese; the modern Chinese costumes It is different from the past dynasties.
The root of this change lies in the Qing Dynasty's "shave hair easy to serve" system. The Qing "hairstyle" in the Qing palace dramas we see now is actually the hairstyle of the late Qing Dynasty. In the early Qing Dynasty, anyone who dared to go out for the "yin and yang head" in TV dramas would definitely be pulled off and beheaded. Because the "statutory" hairstyle at the time was "money rattail", the so-called "money rattail" means that the area of the braid on the top of the head cannot exceed one coin.
This is not the custom of the Han nationality in the Central Plains, but a custom imposed on the Han by the Qing imperial family. Because the grassland peoples graze and hunt most of the time, they don't like to grow their hair; but the shamanism believed by the Manchus at that time believed that the human soul is preserved in the hair. So they chose this method, leaving a "money rattail" to pretend their "soul", so why do they want Han people to keep this hairstyle?
This is about the "cultural confidence" of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, the Qing Dynasty had just absorbed the military, science and technology of the Ming Dynasty,Only came out of the ignorance, of course, there is no such splendid culture of the Central Plains Dynasty. But at that time, many people from the Central Plains took refuge in the Eight Banners group. They summed up for the Qing Dynasty rulers the fundamental reason that nomads could not rule the Central Plains-culturally assimilated by the Central Plains.
In order to avoid being assimilated, the Qing Dynasty formulated many strategies for preserving Manchu culture on the one hand: for example, , Manchu , people who spoke well, made exceptions and promoted better on horseback and archery. Make an exception for promotion; on the other hand, they have formulated many strategies to attack the Central Plains culture. The most important of these is the shave and easy service system. In China, it was called Huaxia in ancient times. What does Huaxia mean? "Zuo Zhuan" explained very clearly:
"China has the great etiquette, so it is called Xia; there is the beauty of service order, which is called Hua."
So the Qing Dynasty began to break down the Central Plains etiquette and service order to combat the Central Plains culture . In terms of etiquette, the Qing Dynasty adopted the etiquette customs of nomads, and ordered the officials to kowtow when seeing the emperor. Except for more formal occasions, there was no such requirement. At the same time, there were a series of other customs and etiquette close to nomads. And the effect is not bad, now many Qing dynasty etiquette have been inherited.
In terms of service regulations, the Qing Dynasty required Han people to shave their hair for easy service. Since then, the Han people can no longer wear the fluttering Hanfu, but must wear clothes with the cultural characteristics of the Qing Dynasty. The emperors of the Qing Dynasty did not wear the clothes of the emperors of the Central Plains. They wore hats and clothes on the grassland, and led the whole country to wear such clothing, to highlight the cultural and aesthetic superiority of the Qing Dynasty.
This certainly aroused opposition from many people in the Central Plains at that time, but the Qing Dynasty's laws were strict, and it was enough to directly investigate and deal with those who did not respect the order of resistance. Some will be linked to the case of treason, and then .After some effective rectification, basically everyone later put on clothes with Qing Dynasty characteristics, leaving behind the pigtails with Qing Dynasty characteristics. However, these braids are not as beautiful as the Qing Dynasty preached.
First of all, it exposes a lot of scalp on the head, and summer text can bite your head. But this is not a problem for high-ranking officials and nobles, anyway, there are slaves to take care of their lives. Another issue is hygiene. These braids are small, but they are long and tightly braided. This kind of hairstyle is very difficult to wash hair, and ordinary people don't have time to ask a few people to help wash such a complicated hairstyle, so the pigtails of the Qing Dynasty are very dirty.
Later, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty also thought that the "money rattail" was a bit too ugly, so the "money rattail" gradually became a "yin and yang head", the hair area on the head increased and the back of the head dragged His braids have also become thicker. But such a hairstyle still looks very ugly to foreigners. The Japanese even humiliated the people of the Qing Dynasty at that time and said: "Aren't you the "country of clothes"? What about your clothes? The Qing officials have no place to show themselves.
So after the Revolution of 1911, the first thing the revolutionary army did was to take to the streets to "cut the pigtails."
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