Nowadays people have razors to shave, how did ancient people shave?

Ancient people usually start to grow a beard from adulthood.

Of course, each dynasty, the standard of adulthood is not the same, the Han Dynasty, 16 years old, the Tang Dynasty changed to 18 years old, and later changed to 22 years old. According to the Confucian moral principle of "the body hair and skin, received by the parents, do not dare to destroy".

The beard should not be cut, but there are not many people, really can not do a lifetime of hair and beard, stay dragged to the ground. So the custom of the ancients was that the beard and hair could not be destroyed at will for no reason, but daily trimming and combing was allowed.

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Then you can use the clippers and so on , in ancient times, men had the habit of keeping a beard, the beard grows well, well-groomed, is a feature of the beauty of the man! The first thing you need to do is to get a good beard, so you can get a good beard and a good grooming, which is a characteristic of a beautiful man. Dyeing the beard as today's hair coloring, play the same effect, so the ancient custom of men dyeing the beard appeared.

As early as the Tang Dynasty, the great literary scholar Liu Yuxi's poem contains the sentence "Recently, I have been young and light seniors, so I dye my moustache as a descendant". It can be seen that in the Tang Dynasty, there were moustache dyeing medicines, and people had the habit of dyeing their moustaches.

After the Xinhai Revolution, Chinese men's hair, clothing, social etiquette and customs changed a lot, and men's haircuts and shaving became part of their daily lives. But many of the etiquettes about growing a beard are still worth knowing. For example, the younger generation does not grow a beard in front of their elders, which is a reflection of traditional Chinese cultural awareness and ethical concepts, and is very educational for modern people, especially those fashionable young people.

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