How did the aesthetics of hair come into being in Folk Custom 1?

Plekhanov pointed out in "On Artistic Letters Without Addresses": "Aesthetic taste always develops with the development of productive forces. Therefore, the status of aesthetic taste can always be an accurate symbol of the status of productivity here and there. " It shows that people's aesthetic consciousness, ideas and tastes are not static, but are restricted by productive forces.

This can also be seen clearly from the ancient custom of taking hair as beauty. "Parents of the body" includes hair. In the eyes of the ancients, hair was very precious. Like skin, it is regarded as "the parents of the body" and cannot be easily changed or damaged. The ancients regarded haircut as a great shame and made it a law. It seems that there is a historical basis in TV series. They would rather kill their heads than cut their braids.

Paying attention to the aesthetics of hair is also the common aesthetic consciousness of all nationalities in the world.

Hegel's aesthetics holds that, generally speaking, being close to plants but not to animals in morphology does not mean that an organism is strong, but rather weak. They let their hair hang flat, or cut it very short, not curly or tied. The ancient Greeks took great pains to carve their hair into their ideal sculpture ... Men's hair was always carved into a thick bun, while women's hair was always carved into a bun.

In Gross's The Origin of Art, it is considered that hair accessories, from the perspective of aesthetics, are a transitional state from movable decoration to fixed decoration. However, this is not a common decoration among primitive peoples. Although the art of hair ornaments has been boldly and wonderfully developed among the farming peoples in Africa and Oceania, it has achieved little in the hunting peoples.

It is not difficult to see from the above two paragraphs that beauty is closer to the product of farming period. In some hunting nations, especially women, hair accessories are rarely considered. For example, among the many hair accessories of Eskimos, only a few have aesthetic taste, while Bushmen women shave their hair. Australian aborigines usually don't pay attention to their hair styles. Men have long hair, and women often cut it very short with stone knives.

In fact, paying attention to hair style was originally for production and life, and gradually developed into various customs associated with it. For example, when a baby is three months old or four or five years old, a haircut ceremony is held. There are historical factors behind the appearance of hair as a beautiful phenomenon.

In primitive society, due to low productivity, human beings have no time to pay attention to their own beauty. In a society rich in material production, it is possible to talk about beauty, such as noticing your hair and beautifying it.

Engels once said: "Women's hair developed in a historical position-fluffy or wavy, curly or straight, black, yellow or light yellow. ..... If women's skin, hair and everything in history are removed, what is left of the so-called' primitive women' in front of us? Just an ape. " It can be seen that the aesthetics of hair is indeed a product of history.