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The Qing Dynasty Mongolia Han Manchu stay braid that Qiang Tibetan Zhuang Miao these southern minorities?

From the Qing Dynasty Qianlong sixteen years compiled in the Imperial Qing Dynasty tribute map, the Zhuang in the early Qing Dynasty is the chignon, do not leave a braid, but in the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, by the influence of the surrounding Han Chinese, the Zhuang, Yao there is a braid of the situation, my elders and predecessors have told me that our local until the early liberation of the Zhuang, Yao old people to leave a braid of hair, my aunt was once a child because of the mockery of a Yao old man with a braid was scolded by my grandmother, my grandmother said that in the past, the men were all men with a braid of hair, the Zhuang, Yao and Miao. My aunt was once scolded by my grandmother for mocking an old Yao man who kept his hair in braids. My grandmother said that men used to keep their hair in braids and were not allowed to mock others, and one of my seniors said that his father kept his hair in braids until his death and never washed it, which made him smell bad, curse the Republic of China all day long, and claim that the emperor was so and so every day. Tibetan men have some people are also left with hair braids, a few years ago I went to Tibet Linzhi area Bayi town, in the market to see a lot of Tibetan men to stay with hair braids, with red rope spike tied, but not shaved, now all stay with hair braids, the Qing Dynasty on more stay.