During the Qing Dynasty, men’s braids were so ugly that they were called pig tails in the West. Why were some people reluctant to cut them off?

We all know that after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, some people began to advocate cutting off the "pig tail", but there are still many people who are unwilling to cut it off. Why? I think the main reason is habit and aesthetics.

We are now accustomed to men having short hair and women having long hair. Boys with short hair are considered masculine and handsome, and girls with long hair are considered beautiful. But there are also many girls who grow short hair and boys who grow long hair. Such behavior is considered to be weird hairstyles in the eyes of the older generation. Some even say that men with long hair and women with short hair are shemales.

This may also help us understand why people were reluctant to cut off their long braids after the fall of the Qing Dynasty. I think the biggest reason is that their aesthetics failed to change for a while. They have had long braids since they were young and have kept them until adulthood. Now they are asked to cut off their long braids. Who can get used to it? It's like asking all girls to shave their heads. Will girls agree? I think this is difficult, because our aesthetics already believes that girls with long hair are the most feminine, so when we see a girl with short hair, we subconsciously think that she is a boy.

I think there are still some people who hope for the restoration of the Qing Dynasty. They also believe that the officials of the Qing Dynasty can once again enter the political stage. They may not be able to accept the demise of the Qing Dynasty for a while, so naturally they will not listen to some reformers, because the era they were born in is the Qing Dynasty, and they may They believed that the Qing Dynasty was their home.

Anyway, our hair has all gone from long braids to short hair. The men of the Qing Dynasty just needed time to change. Time will change these things, and they did succeed in changing them.