Why did the Qing Dynasty have long hair?

It is the custom of Manchu people to shave off the hair on the top of the forehead and tie the rest into braids. The specific reason is unknown.

Before the Qing Dynasty, the Han people attached great importance to hairstyles, which were even directly related to etiquette. Before the Qing dynasty, the Han people shaved their hair at will, which was a sign of unfilial parents-they were covered with skin, and their parents dared not hurt them, so filial piety began. And unfilial people, it is difficult to survive in a group composed of Han people.

Therefore, the word filial piety occupies an extremely important position in the traditional cultural concept of the Han nationality. It can be said that it is one of the most important ideological foundations to unify and rule the Han nationality to require children to be filial to their parents and elders, and on this basis to be loyal to the monarch and patriotic.

As Manchu conquerors whose population is absolutely not dominant, they think that if they want to rule the Han people many times, they must change the Han people from the most basic place, and writing articles from the word "filial piety" is the simplest, most effective and most direct way to ask the Han people to change their hair styles! If the ruler wears a braid, then the ruled must also wear a braid, which is the loyalty and filial piety that the Manchu emperor needs!

At the same time, in the process of asking Han people to change their hair styles, we can directly screen out people who have backbone, rebellious spirit, are not convinced of the rule of the Qing Dynasty and are unwilling to be loyal to the Qing emperor through the high-pressure and bloody means of "keeping hair but not hair", and then directly kill them. The rest are timid, obedient, obedient and willing to be loyal ... in short.

Originally, the braids of the Han people were completely forced out by the butcher's knife of the Qing Dynasty, but sadly, after the demise of the Qing Dynasty and the founding of the Republic of China, the government asked everyone to cut off the braids, but many Han people rebelled abnormally. Even if the last emperor Puyi cut off the braid, there are still many Han people with braids ... It's hard to say, until now, some people still have that braid representing servility. ..