Ancestors have had such a precedent of compulsory haircut. Hundreds of years later, when the Eight Banners of Manchuria crossed Shanhaiguan and entered Shanhaiguan, it overthrew the decadent Ming Dynasty and established the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and the rulers of the Qing Dynasty began to vigorously promote the system of shaving braids.

1645, the emperor shunzhi of the Qing dynasty issued an order, announcing that "after this announcement, all provinces in Zhili, both inside and outside Beijing, will have their hair shaved within ten days. If you avoid sparing your hair, argue eloquently and never borrow it lightly, your courtiers must not shave their heads, or they will be killed without forgiveness. This is the famous "haircut order" in history.

From then on, the fate of hair is no longer a personal preference or an ethical issue, but a serious political issue. In order to completely conquer the Han people in spirit, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty took tonsure as a sign of submission.

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Kang Youwei was the first person in China who formally asked the emperor to cut his hair and braid it.

19110 In June10, Wuchang Uprising broke out, and the provinces responded one after another, and the revolutionary wave surged. Compared with forcing Han people to shave their hair in the early Qing Dynasty, the Revolution of 1911 also regarded hair as a symbol of political division. Independent provinces naturally take the braid that marks the Han people's submission to the Manchu court as their revolutionary goal, and cutting off the braid has become a new symbol of getting rid of the old and the new.

However, after the founding of the Republic of China, the trend of braiding gradually expanded, and a few months after Shanghai's independence, the situation of resisting braiding continued to occur. About the history of braids, people in China have struggled for nearly 300 years.

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