Modern men have crisp short hair. How dirty is the braid of the Qing people?

During the Qing dynasty, ordinary men wore braids, which can be said to make people want to vomit and dare not approach. Because the poor have long hair, they have to run around to make a living every day and engage in a lot of physical labor. Over time, the taste naturally smells bad. In the Qing dynasty, men's hairstyles were very distinctive. Men were asked to shave off the first half of their heads and leave a braid at the back. Of course, this is also the requirement that the Han people must obey their own Manchu life tradition in order to make them obey after the Qing army entered the customs.

Therefore, if you don't shave off the front of your hair as required, you will be regarded as a rebel. This hairstyle needs to be shaved and combed regularly, but the back of the head can't be cut off. Therefore, this length is getting longer and longer. For the long hair of dignitaries, naturally someone takes care of it, but for ordinary people, such long hair is a burden to daily life.

So at that time, your hair was taken care of by a special person, and all kinds of hair oils were used to make your hair emit healthy color and fragrance. Ordinary people, on the other hand, do a lot of manual labor every day. On the one hand, it will sweat a lot, and at the same time it will be contaminated with unclean things. And they don't have so much energy to take care of it, so over time, the smell on their heads naturally smells bad. So we can see the difference between the rich and the poor not only from the clothes, but also from the hair.

Western missionaries have commented that these braids smell like mouse nests. When the national strength of the Qing Dynasty declined, this hairstyle became a point that the West laughed at the backwardness of China people. With the continuous introduction of new ideas, people's concept that parents are influenced by their bodies has gradually faded. In the Republic of China, the government issued a law that people should cut off their long braids. On the one hand, they lost the shackles behind their heads, on the other hand, they gradually accepted new ideas and concepts.