The Manchu 'Pigtail' I The Haircut That Caused The Biggest Controversy In Chinese History

In all of Chinese history, the Manchu pigtail was the haircut that caused the greatest controversy.
The 1870 Sanitary Ordinance, intended to prevent unhealthy tenement conditions in San Francisco, overcrowded jails, prompting the Pigtail Ordinance. The Sanitary Ordinance required a fine or a week or more in jail, but many impoverished Chinese immigrants welcomed free accommodation and board. The Supervisors began shaving all convicts' heads to prevent lice and fleas. However, many equal rights supporters argued the Supervisors' ultimate objective was to stop willing Chinese inmates.
Late 19th century Chinese immigration to the US increased. By 1880, California had 100,000 Chinese residents. 90% of immigrants were men who came to the US to support their families. They had to keep their queue braids to avoid being branded revolutionary as most of them returned to China. The Pigtail Ordinance was intended to deter Chinese immigrants from violating the city's sanitary code. Anti Chinese animosity drove the Pigtail Ordinance, trying to deter Chinese immigrants from coming to the US.
Since 1644, Han men in China had to wear a queue braid and shave their foreheads to show their allegiance to the Qing dynasty. Han Chinese had a queue braid on the back of their heads because they had long hair. They strongly opposed forehead shaving.
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[Taipei_]

Manchu culture and history is pretty interesting. Northeastern China is one of the most underrated places on earth imo.

[hmj]

I think my grandfather or dad may have to lived with a pig tail in the 1880s to 1912 when later he joined his older brother to work in America in the Sacramento County Area much later he sent me to join him later he went back to Zhongshan Daiwan Village to be with his wife and daughters when much later I brought my sisters and our mother to Oakland, California !

[Dopendekhang]

Very interesting. Never knew their was so much history lurking behind that hairstyles.

[kaanerdem]

That hairtype was also popular among Turks. Ottoman elite troops akincis and deliler haircut was the same. My father had the same haircut at his wedding he told me (born in 1940).

[paulc]

Very interesting Manchu vs Han Chinese history over hairs :).

[emperorsam]

Very interesting information. But please, “Qing” Dynasty is not pronounced “Shing”. It is very difficult to hear you keep calling it Shing.

[aaronmaurice]

I call it the Wong Fei Hung Hairstyle. Cause when i was a kid i didn't know what is manchu.

[망고의주말]

만주족은 중국을 지배한 퉁구스계 인종입니다. 언어, 풍습, 의복, 예법은 오히려 몽골, 일본, 한국과 가깝습니다.

[망고의주말]

2min 11seconds area map is wrong. distorted by China.

[somwangphulsombat]

At that time Chinese in Thailand both immigrants and Thailand -Born were as same as in China

[samquan]

The last Qing dynasty of Manchu people. They are not Chinese (Han Chinese) they occupy China country in 1644 already. The Chinese people has no country today. The Manchu people live outside the Great Wall. Inside the Great Wall is Chinese

[cecaloather]

Once upon a time, to be Chinese means sporting the Manchu plait. The Chinese would loathe having their plaits cut off.

Now, especially amongst the Han chauvinists, they mock the plait and the people in the past, (who are of course their ancestors) who sported it. ED: There is already one Han chauvinist who said his ancestors suffered from Stockholm Syndrome for sporting the queue and that Manchus were so effective that they destroyed Chinese culture. So I wonder if he thinks the festivals he celebrates, the language he speaks are all Manchu inventions.

The Chinese revolutionaries that sort of overthrew the Manchus like Sun Yat-sen were Han chauvinists themselves after all and given how they are revered, the plait now seen as a symbol of enslavement is mainstream. (ED: Plenty of Han chauvinists in the bizarre "Hanfu" movement. These people foam in the mouth when shown actual dresses their ancestors during the Qing Dynasty wore like the cheongsam and magua saying (wrongly) that they are Manchu inventions.)

If the Manchus got rid of Han Chinese culture, I wonder how they managed to know what Han Chinese culture truly is. By the way, Han Chinese men before the Qing Dynasty did not shave, did not cut their hair. Funny that most of these hanfu people choose to be clean shaven and risk being mistaken for eunuchs.