Braids, not to mention beautiful or not, the biggest problem is cleaning. Braid your hair and wrap it around your head. This will prevent airflow and will easily breed various parasites. Many friends may not have any feelings about the long bugs. Give an example.
The author is a post-80s, and grew up in a rural area of Henan Province as a child. At that time, he was still a boy with a flat head. The parents were not at home and his hair was neglected. After a while, crawling lice would grow on his head. If it's really itchy, comb your hair with a grate to remove the lice. It should be noted that this is still a flat head, and the big braids of the Qing Dynasty can be imagined.
The pigtails of the Qing Dynasty had different shapes in different periods. At first it was "money rattail", "only one head is as big as money, braided, called money rattail"; then there is "pig tail" with palm-sized hair on the top of the head, and the braids are much thicker; later It is the hair style "Cow Tail" in the late Qing Dynasty, with more hair left, and men generally dragged a thick and long braid.
In the three hundred years of the Qing Dynasty, the length and volume of braids were constantly increasing. The shape of the braid is changing, and the requirements for its care are naturally higher. The biggest problem with braids is grooming.
There is no shampoo or hair dryer in Qing Dynasty, so it is quite difficult to freshen up your hair. Despite the difficulty, the braids must always be sorted out. Some people roughly distinguished the frequency of washing hair of different classes in the Qing Dynasty. Royal nobles wash their hair once a week, officials once half a month, and ordinary people once a month. The frequency of washing your hair is strongly related to the resources you have, such as free time, servants who help you wash your hair, and so on. It is conceivable that the poor are working hard, dragging their tired body all day, what else are they talking about shampooing?
Let’s take a week as an example. You can feel what it feels like if you don’t wash your hair for a week. Winter is good, but summer is unbearable.
When the British missionary Myrord came to China, he specifically described the pigtails of Qing men:
This is probably the most terrible punishment for men by God, let them Every day we drag a dirty and smelly braid, just like a rat born in a latrine. When we cover our noses and pass by, these Qing men don't think there is anything wrong with their smell.
Myrod was wearing colored glasses to look at Chinese people. His words contained contempt and contempt, but they could roughly reflect the truth: men’s braids are not very clean.
Therefore, many people should be more entangled in the cleaning of braids. It is too troublesome to wash. If it is not washed, it will make you smelly and cause lice. However, this trouble was not a problem after October 1911. After the Wuchang Uprising overthrew the Qing Dynasty, the first thing that the Republic of China government had to do was to "cut off the pigtails." The vigorous braid cutting movement started in this way. This is the end of the disturbing era of braids.
