What is the custom of cutting duck tails?

It should be a Manchu custom for boys to leave duck tails.

Many boys in other families deliberately leave a handful of hair behind their heads when scraping tires. This is to leave a duck tail, and some places are called pig tail. It is called duck tail because it is long and looks like a duck tail on the back of the head. It is called braid, but it is obviously a legacy of the Qing Dynasty.

In order to destroy people's so-called orthodoxy, the Manchu people, according to their own customs after entering the customs, practiced the practice of leaving their heads without leaving their hair, leaving their hair without leaving their heads, which was bloody for a time. Many Han Chinese were slaughtered because their "parents born with skin and hair" did not want to be shaved. Let's take a look at the old shaving pole and its load.

It is said that this pole is used to hang the heads of people who don't want to shave their heads.

With the passage of time, the Manchu dynasty has long been overthrown. However, the tyranny of being hairless and headless has evolved into a living custom: if someone gives birth to a boy, he will keep a duck's tail in order to grow up smoothly.

Since you have a duck's tail, you can't keep it all the time, so when the child is six or twelve years old, find an auspicious day to cut it off. As for the ceremony of cutting the duck's tail, because it is not discussed in this issue, I will not go into details here.

(Cutting the duck's tail is very ceremonial)

In fact, in some places, keeping and cutting duck tails has become a means of collecting money, which has lost its original meaning and is a bit shameless!

Well, why didn't the girl cut the duck tail? Because girls don't need to stay.