Cao Cao's "cutting your hair without cutting it", although it doesn't look good now, was a great act at that time.
In ancient times, there was another kind of torture called "Kun", that is, shaving all the hair of the whole body. Zhu Yuanzhang used it against his son Lu Wang.
The ancients took great care of their hair. Of course, ancient people didn't cut their hair at all. After all, long hair is troublesome.
Trim it a little, not too much
Before the Qing dynasty, the ancients trimmed their hair very little, but it was not without it, and most of them were very slight, dating back to the pre-Qin period.
In the Book of Songs, there is a saying: Give songs to the bureau, and return to Mu with thin words.
In other words, the hair is all messed up. You must freshen up when you go back.
Because there was no full-time hairdresser at that time, I had to do it myself if I wanted to trim my hair.
Ancient people trimmed their hair a little with scissors. Professional hairdressers appeared in the Han Dynasty, and Yan Jiaxun also recorded that aristocratic children in the Southern Dynasties should have their hair cut regularly and shave off the fluff on their faces.
According to the Book of Jin, Huan Wen's Queen Zhu An deserved it.
And Zhu's comment on "It's like a comb" in the poem "Liang Yun" also means haircut.
But people at that time, both men and women, needed to keep a certain length of hair, mostly to the waist, especially women, and men's hair could be slightly shorter.
Nowadays, in many costume dramas, men wear their hair at the same time, which did not exist in ancient times.
In ancient times, men and women had to tie up their hair completely. People call it tying your hair. If the hair is short, it will look indecent and rude in front of outsiders.
Take a bath, that is, wash your hair.
In ancient times, people called bathing a bath, and bathing means washing your body, and bathing means washing your hair.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was recorded in Shuo Wen Jie Zi: Wood is excellent in law.
In ancient times, there was no shampoo. At first, people washed their hair with burnt ashes such as straw. At that time, plant ash was used to wash clothes, which could effectively clean up grease and dirt.
Later, with the development of time, such as Gleditsia sinensis, hibiscus leaves, rice washing water, sesame leaves and so on. It has also become a necessity for ancient people to wash their hair, which not only makes their hair black and bright, but also helps to protect their hair.
It's not easy to wash your hair, and you have to have a holiday.
Today, we can take a bath and wash our hair at any time, but there was no water heater in ancient times, and even people in the city had trouble using water, so it was not easy to wash their hair and bathe.
According to the Book of Rites, aristocrats and people in the pre-Qin period washed their heads every three days and took a bath every five days.
When Duke Zhou assisted Zhou Chengwang, people often came to put it there, but they often met him to wash his hair, because it was very troublesome at that time.
The so-called "Hugh Mu system" began to appear in the Han Dynasty, that is, people in the imperial court went back to wash their hair and take a bath every five days, so the later imperial holidays were also called Hugh Mu, and there were similar systems in later dynasties.
The ancients didn't often wash their hair. No matter the nobles or the people, they should wash it once every long time. Apart from trouble, in fact, the ancients thought that washing your hair often was bad for your health.
Traditional culture believes that frequent washing and bathing will lead to yang leakage, which will make people sick and lose their hair.
From the pre-Qin dynasty to the Qing dynasty, people like to comb their hair and comb their hair, instead of washing their hair directly. Empress Dowager Cixi likes to comb her hair with a comb, and only washes it once every ten days and a half months.
Generally speaking, people in ancient times washed their hair only once every few days, and used plant ash, Gleditsia sinensis, Taomi water and the like to clean their hair, while at ordinary times they mainly used combs and grates to care for their hair.