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Ancient Japanese men had strange hairstyles, why did they bald their hair in the middle and pull it out one by one?

We all know that "the body hair skin, by the parents", the ancients will be filial piety in the first place, they believe that the body is given by the parents, all the ancient men are not cut hair, in this long-term evolution, in order to live a convenient, but also for the sake of aesthetics, the ancients began to knot the hair!

And in Japan, the same hair bun combing hair bun, but the Japanese hair bun is quite strange, they not only have to bald the middle of the hair, but also need to pull out all the hair one by one, it looks like all quite painful. In ancient times Japan had a close relationship with China, and the culture, clothing, and the bun were all influenced by China.

In the beginning, Japan's earliest hair bun was the total horn, which could only be worn by upper-class men, with the hair combed out in the form of a stroke, and braided and tied on either side of the ears, which was also borrowed from the uncrowned children of China.

And in China entered the "rule of Zhenguan" under the Tang Dynasty, Japan sent emissaries to the Tang Dynasty to learn the knowledge of Confucianism, Confucianism academic spread to Japan, Japanese men most of the hairstyle is to stay in a Chinese bun, in a hat, their hairstyles with the ancient people of the Tang Dynasty is no difference.

Because Japan's wars were more frequent, the samurai's hairstyle was not suitable for war, after wearing a helmet, the hair is easy to fall apart, the front of the hair will affect the combat, in order to avoid this situation , "Tsukiyo head" began to appear, at first the samurai At first, samurai shaved their heads by pulling out their hair one by one, which was very thorough.

But one by one plucking is really too painful, and easy to get infected, later, it was changed to use a razor to shave the head, but then the hair eradication is not very thorough, every time you need to take care of it, but in the later years this kind of hairstyle became popular.