Why did the hair styles of ancient Japanese men all shave off in the middle?

This hairstyle is called Yue Daitou, which is a status symbol. Only samurai can keep this hairstyle so that it can be invented more conveniently in battle. When we watch some Japanese costume dramas, we always see their hairstyles, which are very strange, like the Mediterranean and not like the Mediterranean, leaving a long pinch in the middle, which looks very uncoordinated.

But in fact, this hairstyle is to make Japanese samurai more agile in battle, because in the course of battle, ancient people may sometimes have fierce movements, which may cause hair to fall off, and the scattered hair may sometimes cover their eyes and hurt people, so some people began to remove the front of their hair to prevent it from falling in battle. Over time, many warriors began to imitate this hairstyle, and later it became more and more.

The improved hairstyle is to leave the hair on the top of the head, then dig a track on the side and back, and then leave the hair below. This is a recognized samurai hairstyle, but it is not always like this, and it will change slightly according to different aesthetics in different periods. There is also a saying that this is actually related to the Mongols. At that time, Kublai Khan's expeditionary force began to set foot on the island country, so the Japanese thought that this hairstyle might bring good luck, so they imitated Kublai Khan's hairstyle and created the moon head.

Generally speaking, this hairstyle was very popular among samurai at first, and then many civilians began to imitate it, thus forming a national trend. In the early days, some samurai even showed their determination by pulling out their hair. Later, because pulling out their hair would cause very serious scalp problems, it seemed that their scalp was very shiny, and later they changed to shaving their hair directly with a razor.