What was haircutting called in ancient times

Haircutting in ancient times was hair bathing and combing.

Men and women had to use combs and grates to comb and pectinate. Until the Manchu Qing Dynasty before the entry of customs. Ancient hair for bun ancient men and women to adulthood, to perform the ceremony of crown and maturity, to bind the hair; criminals scalping, and only to go to the sideburns of the penalty, which requires a special "pectus".

Because of the different dynasties on the hair of the cleanliness and hygiene of different methods of treatment, so there are different names, the Ming Dynasty called "grate head", the Qing Dynasty called "shaved head", and called "cut head", "push head", "push head". ", "push the head" and so on.

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Stories about haircuts

Shaving the head is a matter of the Qing Dynasty after the entry of the rise. Legend has it that one year Emperor Yongzheng had sores on his head, and when he combed his hair, he suspected that the eunuchs combing his hair were behind it, and killed several of them in a row.

There was a Taoist priest surnamed Luo lived in Beijing Baiyun Guan, he sympathized with those innocent people killed, then find a way to make a razor, shaving and combing pigtails with the furrow, such as the grate barber tools, and research into a set of presses, whacking, take a set of barbering operations, teach the combing eunuchs to learn to use.

The eunuchs with these tools and methods to the Yongzheng emperor shaving, combing braids, the Yongzheng emperor felt very comfortable. Asked the reason, the eunuchs to play is Luo Daoshi taught.

Yongzheng gave Luo Daoshi to "half of the dynasty Luandao, small deacon" title. Luo Taoist then became the grandfather of the barber. After his death, was buried in the Baiyun Guan, that is, today's "Luo Gong Tower". He was honored by Yongzheng with the title of "Tempest Shou Yi Zhen Zhen". In the early years of barber store enshrined in the master, is the Luo Taoist priest.

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