Why do traditional Manchus shave their hair?

Yes, it's cold in Manchuria. But the custom has nothing to do with the cold.

The custom of shaving hair in the past is because of the ancient living and production environment of the Manchus.

The Manchus were a hunting people in ancient times, and the men hunted on horseback for a long time in the mountains of Northeast China, and the broken hair on their foreheads would block their vision when shooting arrows, and it would not be easy to find them in time once they encountered a fierce animal, so they shaved off their foreheads.

Horseback riding is very bumpy, if you use a bun it will be easy to fall apart, so the back of the hair is simply sparse into a braid, the night in the wilderness when camping disk can also be used as a pillow.

These customs were formed because of the production and living conditions at that time.

In fact, not only the Manchus, the ancient Eurasian continent of the northern part of all the nomadic or nomadic people have a similar custom, only shaving the hair in a slightly different way.