![]() ![]() When a student was twenty years old, he ought to have a ‘caping ceremony’ (guanli) in which he changed his child’s headdress to an adult’s, demonstrating his entrance into the mature world. This custom is inferred by such idioms as ‘to bind hair when starting school’ (sufa shoushu), or ‘to bind hair while being a soldier’ (Jiefa congrong). “Long before the Manchu conquest, Han males had become accustomed to the practice of binding up their long hair on the top of their heads. In the periods under consideration, hair cutting meant social control, not only supported by the conventionalized and morally approved fashions, but also regulated and supervised by the political authorities.” (Hiltebeitel and Miller, pg. Cutting hair is more critical than the change of hair style. “In Chinese consciousness of hair, moral discipline is more perceivable than sexual restraint. Ming Dynasty and dynasties prior (before 1644) The rules and standards of society that circumscribe individual action through the inculcation of conventional sanctions and the imposition of formalized mechanisms Social control (according to Merriam-Webster): Sources of Chinese Tradition: Volume 1: From Earliest Times to 1600 By William Theodore De Bary, Irene Bloom, Joseph Adler GodleyĬhina Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation By Karl Gerth The End of the Queue: Hair as Symbol in Chinese History by Michael R. Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures edited by Alf Hiltebeitel, Barbara D. Manchus And Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928 (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China) By Edward J. short hair for adult Chinese men throughout China's long and complex history. This is a very simplified infographic showing a very general explanation of long-uncut & bound hair vs.
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