Why do people in China call haircuts "haircuts"?

In ancient China, due to the influence of Confucianism, people always followed the tradition of keeping hair, thinking that "the skin of the body is influenced by parents", and even the hair can't be shaved off at will, otherwise it would be a black sheep. The so-called "twenty crowns for men" and "fifteen crowns for women [jρ]" reflect the ancient people's attention to hair.

In ancient times, only those who broke the law had their hair and beard shaved off. At that time, shaving was called "punishment" and shaving was called "forbearance". Comparatively speaking, shaving hair is much more serious than shaving beard.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, these two criminal laws were very common. According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, when Cao Cao marched, he strictly ordered the soldiers not to damage the wheat seedlings in the fields. I didn't expect my horse to break into the wheat field, so I "helped the sword to cut the hair ashore" as a punishment.

Craftsmen who took hairdressing as their profession first appeared in the Han Dynasty. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the barber industry was relatively developed, and full-time "hairdressers" appeared, and the children of nobles all had their hair cut and shaved. In the Song Dynasty, a workshop specialized in making hairdressing tools appeared, and the word "haircut" came into being.

In the Qing dynasty, in order to achieve the goal of long-term rule, the nobles forced all men to shave their heads and comb their braids. In the second year of Shunzhi, the court ordered shaving and braiding. Everyone should follow the Manchu hairstyle, shave off the hair at the front and comb a long braid at the back.

At this time, the barber industry has developed unprecedentedly, and there are mobile services "barber pole" everywhere. Barbers, with iron clips, drum up business and give people haircuts along the street. Due to the different ways of handling hair in different dynasties, the names of the hairdressing industry are also different, such as "grate head" in the Ming Dynasty, "shaving head" in the Qing Dynasty, and "haircut" and "pushing head".

During the reign of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty, the first barber shop in China was formally established in Fengtianfu. At that time, the barbershop's equipment was relatively simple and the technology was very low. All the people who come for haircuts are men. After the Revolution of 1911, many Japanese hairdressers returned to China from China and set up their own barbershops. Under the influence of the May 4th progressive trend, the hairdressing industry is unprecedentedly prosperous, and many progressive women have joined the trend of haircut.