I don’t know if you have ever watched Japanese costume dramas? There is nothing to say about the female characters inside, most of them are gentle and beautiful, but many male characters are simply hot-eyed.
is not an ugly actor, but a very weird hairstyle. The front and middle are shaved off, leaving only a small part of the hair on the side and back of the head. It is usually gathered to the back of the head and is called "the head of the moon."
We often say here, "Really handsome, can support the pigtail head of the Qing Dynasty", but the Japanese moon generation head is also an extraordinary appearance to control, if you just have a shave that can’t hold it. It’s impossible to look directly above the forehead.
So, why did ancient Japanese men use this hairstyle? Are their aesthetics wrong?
Ancient Japan had a lot of contacts with the Tang Dynasty, and sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty to study several times. The two sides exchanged frequently and Japan was deeply affected. Culture, clothing, makeup, and architecture all have the shadow of the Tang Dynasty, with Tang Dynasty elegance and online aesthetics.
For example, there is a particularly famous character in Japan, Haruaki Abe, who is both an onmyoji and a recognized beautiful man. He was active in the middle of the Heian period. In China, it was from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the Northern Song Dynasty. , His clothes are biased towards the Tang Dynasty, and he did not shave his head.
When did the moon generation head appear?
is about the late Kamakura period in Japan, and China is the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the Japanese civil war was frequent, and various warrior classes often duel for turf. They found that they had too much hair and sweated on top of their heads. It was very uncomfortable to get stuck in the helmet, and it was easy to hang down to cover the eyes and affect the line of sight. Killed by the opponent.
So, like the nomads in northern China, the Japanese samurai also thought of the idea of removing part of their hair. Although it is a bit ugly to shave the top of his head into the "Mediterranean", but the line of sight is clear on the battlefield, and there is no need to worry about the hair flying around and blocking the eyes. After all, life is more important.
After seeing this, other samurai followed suit, and gradually formed a fashion, and took the elegant name "moon generation head". But at this time, not all samurai use this hairstyle, and some people can’t accept it. They would rather spend more time taking care of their hair than being so ugly.
"Yuedaitou" has another meaning, that is to show the determination to the "lord", which means that he is ready to fight and can go to the battlefield at any time.
When the lord naturally appreciates the attitude of his subordinates, looking at the samurai with full hair above his head, it seems that he is not brave and loyal enough, and will be ridiculed by other samurai as a coward, and no one is friends with him.
In other words, the moon generation head is not only practical, but also allows the lord to see his loyalty and kill two birds with one stone. Therefore, it is very popular with Japanese samurai, unknowingly it has become the standard of the samurai class, and also a status symbol. In addition to the privileged samurai, farmers, merchants and craftsmen are not qualified to shave their heads.
Habits become natural. After watching for a long time, Japanese people don’t think that Tsukidai head is ugly. Even Japanese men who are not samurai shave this hairstyle.
Seeing this, you may have a question. If you think your hair is extra, why not shave it all? It looks better then.
One of the reasons is that in everyone’s perception, you become a monk if you shave it. Ancient Japanese temples had a large number of farms and dependent tenant farmers, which gave birth to armed forces of "monk soldiers". Even the samurai leaders such as Heimori, Oda Nobunaga, and Tokugawa Ieyasu were afraid of the power of temple monks.
If the samurai under the lord had shaved his head, wouldn't he sit on the side of the temple? Moreover, compared to the nomads in ancient northern China, the most intuitive example is the "money rattail" of the Qing Dynasty, which requires more or less hair. It is estimated that the moon generation head of the samurai is the same.
The second reason is to wear a helmet in combat. If you shave it completely, the helmet is directly buckled on your head. If you rub the scalp, you will panic. There will be a buffer zone on the side and the helmet. Can wear more stable.
About the Japanese samurai's moon generation head, the worstHuman is the way they remove hair. I think it’s because I think it’s too much trouble to shave my hair after five or six days. Especially when I’m on the battlefield, where can I shave my head comfortably?
So many warriors use wooden tweezers instead of razors to pull out their hair one by one!
What kind of scene is this? In the Japanese historical materials "Keicho Collection", the records about the process of samurai's hair removal are very scary. At that time, when the samurai pulled out his hair, it was often "black and bloody, terrifying."
Everyone Can you imagine that kind of picture, is it a bit cool on the back? The Japanese are really cruel, cruel to others, and cruel to themselves. He could endure the pain of pulling out his hair one by one, and he was able to cut his belly without hesitation.
At this time, people who love hair loss are more dominant. Drop one early and one late, saving you much trouble.
However, in the Taiping period after the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, just like the samurai who cut their abdomen and walked away, the painful moon generation head pulled out his hair and used a razor to shave his scalp instead. Up.
Anyway, the samurai have become leisurely civil servants. The time to shave their hair in short intervals can also be extracted, and they can finally get rid of the state of hard pulling their hair or bleeding on their heads.
Yuedaitou was popular in ancient Japan for more than 500 years, and was not abandoned until the "Meiji Restoration". At that time, Japan introduced Western culture in its entirety, and Japan's moon generation head was quickly replaced by foreigners' short haircuts.
