IV.+Hairstyles

In ancient China, when a girl was unmarried, her hair would be worn long and it would always be braided. When the women got married though they wore their hair differently. The women wore their hair short and in a tight knot at the top. Now Chinese woman can wear their hair as they want, and most of them dye their hair different strands of colors. During the Manchu regimen, men had their hair long and they would never cut it because it was disrespectful. They said this was disrespectful because you got your hair from your parents so it should never be cut. Also around this time men wore their hair in pony tails and would shave the top of their forehead. This was worn by the men in Manchus from Manchuria and was called the Chinese Queue. In the 1910's the men did not have to wear this hairstyle anymore, but some still wore them as tradition. During the Chinese Empire time, the Chinese wore one point hairpins, which are a cylinder or a one long stem that ends with a knob. One point hairpins, which are from the 13th, 14th, and 15th century, were decorate with flowers, different animals, artistic figures or even human heads made into miniature busts. The pins were used to get their hair back into place or add more decoration. In the time of the 3rd and 8th centuries in China the Chinese wore double point hairpins, which were a U-shaped cylinder that was bent at the top to for a loop whcih made the the tow pin pieces equal on both sides. There are double hairpins nowadays too like the American version which is a common bobby pin. There are the chignon or hair picks which are from France. Many hairpins today all originated from China, however, the pins from China were originally thin and delicate and were made of gold or silver. Some were also made from metal or wood. Hairpins usually had beads or flowers hanging off them and they were very commonly seen in girls' hair.



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