How dirty were the pigtails of men in the Qing Dynasty? Foreigners in Qing Dynasty: Don't dare to approach them, hair smells bad

We often see the sentence "Parents who are affected by body hair and skin, don't dare to damage it." Nowadays, people may think that a haircut is a normal thing. However, this is only the view of our people today. Confucianism has always existed as an orthodox idea of ​​the country for a long historical period in ancient times.

Even those dynasties that did not regard Confucianism as the orthodox, Confucianism had a great influence on people at that time. It can be said that the life philosophy of ancient Chinese people largely relied on Confucianism. In Confucianism, filial piety is a very important aspect. It is a rule that must be followed from the emperor to the common people. Under this concept, each of us is given the body by our parents. To maintain filial piety, we must Take care of the body bestowed by your parents.

So the ancients took hair very important. For example, in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the request to shave their hair was to defeat the Han people's defensive psychology from the ideological level; another example was the request to cut braids during the Revolution of 1911, which was a wide range of means to promote the revolution. Therefore, it is clear that hairstyle is a very important thing in ancient times.

Let's talk about the origin of the braided hairstyle in the Qing Dynasty. As we all know, the Qing Dynasty was a regime established by ethnic minorities. The Manchus were originally a people living on the grasslands. If they also had hair like the Han people, it would be difficult to complete the daily activities such as horse riding and archery.

So the Manchu ancestors of the Qing Dynasty designed this hairstyle from the life. The original braided hair is also called the money rat tail. From the name, the original braided hair is very thin, and can pass through the square hole in the middle of the coin like the tail of a mouse.

Because of their hairstyles, the people in the Central Plains call the northern minorities "suolu". Suo means braided hair, which translates to "barbarians with braids" in vernacular. Of course, this is a slanderous term for ethnic minorities under the ancient erroneous thinking of Han chauvinism, which runs counter to the national unity we advocate today.

Let's talk about the hair braiding of men in the Qing Dynasty. When the Manchu cavalry attacked the Ming Dynasty like a rag, they issued an edict when they were satisfied, requiring all Han people to shave their hair and keep braided hair. This was an insult to the Han people, which was equivalent to digging an ancestral grave, which triggered the tragedies of Yangzhou Shiri and Jiading Santu.

From the Qing Dynasty alone, braiding is not a fixed money rat tail. If it is said that satisfying the requirements and satisfying the haircut is to ask the Han people to abandon their own tradition, then the change of the Qing Dynasty's hair braiding is the quiet resistance of the Han tradition to braiding.

In some Qing Dynasty TV dramas we usually watch, the kind of braided hair that divides the upper and lower ears is actually a form of braided hair that only appeared in the late Qing Dynasty. In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the hair volume was between two. Between people. Therefore, it can be clearly seen that the development of braided hair is the increase in the amount of braided hair and the expansion of the hair-retaining area. This also reflects the Han people's longing for the previous ancestral system.

Understand the origin of braided hair, and then look at how men in the Qing Dynasty washed their hair. There is a profession in the Three Hundred and Sixty Lines in old Beijing called Shaved Head. There is an allegorical saying "shave one's head and pick a child-one head is hot". This is the profession. Every day, the shoulder pole carries one end of the stove to burn hot water, and the other end is the sundries for shaving.

Don’t say that people in the Qing Dynasty didn’t need a haircut. Shaving one's head is equivalent to being an old Beijinger’s barber. It’s just that the haircut at that time was to clean the forehead with a razor, remove the braids, wash them well with hot water on the picks, apply oil to the customer’s hair, and finally braid the braids. Completed a "haircut process".

But we all know that in the feudal era, the vast majority of ordinary people were relatively poor, and shaved their heads were not very frequent. For people in the Qing Dynasty, it was at most once a month. The poor family also exists once every six months. For example, if we don’t wash our hair for a week, we can’t stand it anymore, let alone a month.

In addition, China was an agriculture-oriented country in the Qing Dynasty, and most people were farmers. Everyone in the Qing DynastyWorking out in the sky, sweating, flying dust sticking to the hair, and accumulating day after day, it must be very dirty. I heard that when foreigners came to the countryside of the Qing Dynasty in the late Qing Dynasty, they did not dare to get too close to the men of the Qing Dynasty because the smell of hair was unbearable.