Chinese men had to conform to the new rulers’ hair style. “The regent Dorgon, uncle of the young emperor Fulin upon occupying Nanjing issued a decree formally requiring all Chinese to shave their foreheads and plait their hair in a queue like the Manchus. “The queue was the male hairstyle of the original Manchus, a variant of the way men of the northern tribes, including the Jurchen, had traditionally worn their hair it involved shaving the front and sides of the head, letting the rest of the hair grow long, and braiding it into a plait.” (Rhoads, pg. “During the Qing dynasty, the shaved forehead and queue symbolized Manchu autocratic authority and its cultural dominance, though Han Chinese still held a moral and respectful attitude toward their hair.” (Hiltebeitel and Miller, pg. In traditional China men’s long and bound-up hair epitomized the Confucian norm of filial piety, Han culturalism, and magical power.” (Hiltebeitel and Miller, 138) “This case shows how hair became a means of social control and a focus of cultural and political conflict. As Philip Kuhn concluded in his study of the role of sorcery and ‘soul-stealing’ in the ‘queue-clipping’ outbreak of 1768, a century after the conquest, the tonsure was still far more important, symbolically, than the queue.” (Godley) From cases reaching the Board of Punishments in the early Qing, we do know that members of certain heterodoxical sects attached magical potency to their long hair. “The cutting off of hair in fact accompanied castration in ancient China, and hair was cropped as a form of punishment right up to the eve of the Mongol invasion. It could, therefore, be that head-shaving was perceived by adults as an insult." (Godley) "Although some modern writers have claimed that Chinese resisted hair-cutting because of their reluctance to part with a gift handed down from their ancestors, the heads of boys were, in fact, shaved even during the Ming Confucian revival, a practice which continued throughout the Qing. How this violates the sayings of the sages and is out of keeping with the way of the filial!’” (Adler, pg 423) We dare not injure them.’ When Zengzi was about to die, he bared his hands and feet.
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The questioner said, ‘The Classic of Filiality says, ‘Our body, limbs, hair, and skin are all received from our fathers and mothers. The Confucians held that the body is a gift of one’s parents and that to harm it is to be disrespectful toward them. “One of the greatest obstacles confronting early Chinese Buddhism was the aversion of Chinese society to the shaving of the head, which was required of all members of the Buddhist clergy. Ming men, once capped, let their hair grow long, and wore it in elaborate fashion under horsehair caps (Ricci 1953:78).” (Hiltebeitel and Miller, 124) “Under the Ming regime, the ceremony was adopted by more social categories than the scholar-offical class (Zhang 3:1377-87). This tradition can be traced back to the Zhou dynasty (1100-256 B.C.) (SSJZS 1:945).” (Hiltebeitel and Miller, 124)
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When a student was twenty years old, he ought to have a ‘caping ceremony’ (guanli) in which he changed his child’s headdress to an adult’s, demonstrating his entrance into the mature world. This custom is inferred by such idioms as ‘to bind hair when starting school’ (sufa shoushu), or ‘to bind hair while being a soldier’ (Jiefa congrong). “Long before the Manchu conquest, Han males had become accustomed to the practice of binding up their long hair on the top of their heads.
In the periods under consideration, hair cutting meant social control, not only supported by the conventionalized and morally approved fashions, but also regulated and supervised by the political authorities.” (Hiltebeitel and Miller, pg. Cutting hair is more critical than the change of hair style. “In Chinese consciousness of hair, moral discipline is more perceivable than sexual restraint. Ming Dynasty and dynasties prior (before 1644) The rules and standards of society that circumscribe individual action through the inculcation of conventional sanctions and the imposition of formalized mechanisms
Social control (according to Merriam-Webster): Sources of Chinese Tradition: Volume 1: From Earliest Times to 1600 By William Theodore De Bary, Irene Bloom, Joseph Adler GodleyĬhina Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation By Karl Gerth The End of the Queue: Hair as Symbol in Chinese History by Michael R. Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures edited by Alf Hiltebeitel, Barbara D. Manchus And Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928 (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China) By Edward J. short hair for adult Chinese men throughout China's long and complex history. This is a very simplified infographic showing a very general explanation of long-uncut & bound hair vs.
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