How did ancient people shave?

The ancients generally grew beards from adulthood.

Of course, every dynasty has different standards of adulthood. In the Han dynasty, it was 16 years old, and in the Tang dynasty it was changed to 18 years old, and then it was changed to 22 years old. According to the Confucian moral concept of "body hair and skin, parents' way, dare not hurt"

Beards should not be cut, but few people can really drag them to the ground without cutting their hair or shaving all their lives. Therefore, beards and hair can't be destroyed at will for no reason, but they can be trimmed and combed daily, which is the custom of the ancients.

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Then you can use scissors or something. In ancient times, men had the habit of growing beards. The beard is well-grown and well-groomed, which is a feature of a handsome man, so it was often called "beard" in ancient times. The effect of dyeing beard is the same as that of dyeing hair today, so the custom of dyeing beard by ancient men appeared. ?

As early as the Tang Dynasty, there was a sentence in the poem of Liu Yuxi, a great writer, that "the younger generation is younger recently, and it is better to dye the moustache for the afterlife". It can be seen that there were drugs for dyeing beards in the Tang Dynasty, and people had the habit of dyeing beards.

After the Revolution of 1911, great changes have taken place in men's hairstyles, costumes, social etiquette and customs in China. Men's haircut and shaving have become a part of daily life. However, many manners about growing a beard are still worth learning. For example, the younger generation doesn't have a beard in front of their elders, which is the embodiment of China's traditional cultural consciousness and ethical concept, and is of great educational significance to modern people, especially those young people who follow the fashion.

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