People in China seldom grow beards now, but why did so many people grow beards in ancient times?

Ancient people believed in Confucianism, saying that parents whose health was affected only shaved their heads when they died. And the beard is the embodiment of beauty. As smooth as tiger hair. So ancient men seldom shaved their heads and cut their beards.

In ancient times, shaving hair, including beard, was a severe punishment, so they naturally didn't want to shave at will. The ancients paid attention to "parents who suffered." Beard is an important part of the body. They even think that hair gathers people's spirit and is a generation of blood vessels. After it is removed, it will hurt its vitality. So the ancients attached great importance to their hair.

The aesthetic concept or moral standard of men taking long beard as beauty continued into the Ming Dynasty. So in history books, we often see people with beautiful beards. There is really no "four-foot beard" of Guan Yu. Kurogane beards like Zhang Fei are also very popular.

In ancient times, growing a beard was a necessary appearance, a symbol of identity and status, and even a reflection of the realm. The higher the status, the more dignified the status, and the more symbolic the beard is.

It was not until the Manchu people entered the customs in the Qing Dynasty that they shaved their hair and let the Han people obey. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the west wind spread eastward, especially after the Republic of China, pursuing modernization in an all-round way, and shaving became a symbol of progress. But in the Republic of China, there were still many old people with beards and some new people with oriental things. With the development of history, some ancient traditional concepts are no longer suitable for today's society.

Modern people are fast-paced, and everyone has to find a job, whether blue-collar or white-collar. Beard is an obstacle to their career, and beard is a potential danger in manual labor. The fast-paced working life does not allow people to waste all their time on tidying their beards, which always gives people a feeling of untidiness and chaos.