In ancient China, whether men and women have long hair and waist, it must have been a very complicated thing to comb hair at that time. It had to go through the processes of chopping wood, lighting fire, boiling water, shampooing, drying, combing, etc. So what shampooing did the ancients use? Let’s take a look at this article.
. The court regulations for shampooing
Now there is a saying: You are the one who deserves me to go out of shampoo. Whether in modern or ancient times, you pay the same attention to making friends after shampooing. The reason behind this is that you are deeply influenced by Confucian ethics.
pm , at that time, society had a high degree of faith in worshiping gods, so when worshiping gods, they usually bathe and quit fast, and gradually formed the upper-class living habit of "bathing for three days and bathing for five days". Eastern Han " Shuowen Jiezi ": "Mu is to raise hair; bath is to sprinkle the body." It can be seen that in ancient times, mu was to shampoo, and bath was to wash the body.
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" Hanlu " once stipulated: "People are off for bathing every five days." At that time, privacy such as taking a bath was also taken as a rule by the court, which shows the importance of bathing. According to legend, Wei Zifu was loved by Liu Che for his beautiful hair and finally became the queen.
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2. Ancient shampoo
Since the ancients attached great importance to shampoo, I believe the ancients have also tried their best to develop a variety of shampoo products.
1) Soapcorn
Soapcorn is also called "soapcorn". It is to add water to the soapcorn in a water basin and rub it repeatedly or smash it into a hard object. After the water is slightly sticky, it will remove the impurities and become a natural herbal shampoo. There were already text records of soapcorn shampoo when in the Tang Dynasty. It is said that soapcorn shampoo has the effects of removing dirt and blackening hair. However, because the soapcorn grows in a narrow area and the odor after shampooing is slightly irritating, it is gradually replaced by other shampoos.
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2) Wuwangzi
Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen records: "Pick pods in October, cook and mash them, and make pills with white flour and fragrance. The bathing body is better than soapcorn." It means that the shampoo made by Wuwangzi fruit not only washes your hair, but also washes your body, and the effect is better than soapcorns.
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3) Hibiscus leaf
0 Hibiscus leaf shampoo is similar to that of soapcorn shampoo, but the smell is more refreshing, so it has become a substitute for soapcorns, and its production method is similar to soapcorns.
pictures are from the Internet, Hibiscus
4) Tea dry
4) The ancients pressed the residues of oil tea seeds and formed tea dry cakes. Soaked in water, it can also be used as shampoo. At that time, the tea dry shampoo was excellent in detergent ability.
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5) wood ash
wood ash refers to straw, wheat straw cooking, etc., and then stir and filter it after being burned into ashes. The filtered solution becomes shampoo, because its alkalinity has a good oil removal effect. The classic "Book of Rites·Nei Ze" of the Warring States Period records: "The crown is covered with dirt, and the ash is clear; the clothes are covered with dirt, and the ash is clear." At that time, the ash was used as a detergent. The subsequent wood ash was undoubtedly the most widely used shampoo products by the ancients because they were simple to make and easy for ordinary people to obtain.
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6) Rice water
Western Han Dynasty " Rites " Tamama chapter records: "Water with rice and grind, use a squid comb, use a squid comb, use a squid comb to dry hair, and use a squid comb to get into the air, and then sing in the work." It can be seen that as early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, we had used corn and other washing water to shampoo, which had good hair nourishing effects. Now some places in the Yao people still use rice water to shampoo.
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. Ancient comb
The ancients also attached great importance to combing their hair. The great writer Su Shi was once troubled by hair loss. The famous doctor warned him that combing his hair more can prevent hair loss, and the story of the poet Southern Song Lu You still having black hair in his later years due to his years of hair combing.
Many medical classics record the importance of combing hair, such as "Three combs a day in "Hygienic Classic of Yellow Emperors, the hair is dense", "Three combs in spring in the third month, combing hair one or two hundred times each morning" and "Hygienic Health Records "The First Sixteen Goods" in "The Essentials of Practice" in "Hygienic Preservation".
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Since the ancients attached great importance to combing, I would like to mention what style of combs used by the ancients. The combs used by the ancients were generally called "comb", which is also the collective name of the two words "" for combs and . Those with thinner teeth are called "combs", and those with denser teeth are called "combs".
pictures are from the Internet, Shang beast face pattern jade comb
pictures are from the Internet, Eastern Han Dynasty gold jade comb
pictures are from the Internet, Tang Dynasty jade flower and bird pattern comb
pictures are from the Internet, Southern Song Dynasty jade comb
pictures are from the Internet, Qing Dynasty gold scribbling dragon and phoenix ivory assorted comb
ancient people also paid great attention to the material of combs. The palace nobles made good use of the "rhinoceros comb" made of natural rhino horns because it clears heat and detoxifies and relieves headaches.
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Folk people use "cow and sheep horn comb" instead of the precious rhinoceros comb. " boxwood comb " is specially recommended in "Compendium of Materia Medica", because "the wood is tight and greasy, and it is the best to make combs, snatches and prints." It is said that long-term use of wooden combs can not only unblock the meridians, clear the brain and refresh the mind, but also relieve insomnia and hair loss.
pictures are from the Internet, Western Han Dynasty boxwood comb
pictures are from the Internet, Song Dynasty half-moon-shaped gold-wood comb
pictures are from the Internet, Southern Song Dynasty bamboo comb
