The hair style of Mongolians in Yuan Dynasty-braided hair

The history of braided hair is quite ancient. From historical records and relics, we can know that the ethnic groups that braided hair in history are Rongdi, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Rouran, Turkic, Qidan, Jurchen, Tangut, Mongolia and so on. In history, the hair styles of the northern nationalities are vertebral hair, rope hair, quilt hair, shawl hair, braided hair and braided hair. Although there are many appellations, except vertebral hair, the rest are different appellations of braided hair. Later, due to the confirmation of unearthed cultural relics, the Xiongnu's vertebral hair is also braided hair. Vertebral hair does not leave a pinch of hair in the center of the head like some murals, and it is tied into a vertebral shape. Vertebral hair is also braided hair. "Historical Records Li Sheng Lu Jia Biography" said that "Wei He's seeing Lu Sheng"; "Historical Records Biography of Korea", "Wei Manyi tied the knot and walked out of the fortress in the east"; Historical Records Biography of Southwest Yi: "This is all a bun, and there is a gathering of cities." The "bun" or "bun" here must also be a kind of braid.

since the song and yuan dynasties, Mongolian hairstyles were similar to those of other northern minorities, and they were all made. The official is "braiding, or playing yarn to practice vertebrae, and the common people are vertebral." The so-called "vertebral bun" means that the top of it is shaved into three heads, and the front is horsehair-like, and the left and right braids are braided, so as to practice the vertical style, or to practice the vertebral or vertebral bun. In Mongolian, it is "R if you lose it". There are also people who drag a braid alone. In the Yuan Dynasty, the barber's book "Instructions for Net Hair" quoted "Dayuan Newspeak", it was recorded that the Mongolian hair styles at that time had many names, such as wide door, one-word threshold, flowerpot coke, large round forehead, small round forehead and so on. Meng Gong's Record of the Monks and Tartars says, "From Genghis Khan down to the Chinese people, they shave their grandmothers like China's children. Cut it if it is a little longer at the chimney door; Those who do it twice always have a small horn that hangs over their shoulders. " Zheng Suonan's book "A Brief Account of the History of the Mind and the Great Righteousness" says: "The Tatars shave three times and braid their hair. For the third rider, the hair on the top is shaved off, the current hair is left, and it is cut short and saggy; However, I analyzed the hair on both sides, hung it in two bun, and hung it on the left and right shoulder coats, saying that it was not a wave. When you say something, you can't ignore it because you look back. Or combine them into one and drag the back of the clothes straight. " Zheng Linzhi wrote in the History of Korea: "It is the custom of Mongolia to shave the top to the forehead, to shape it, and to leave it in it, which is called fear and hatred." Fear of hatred, Mongolian braids also. What John Pranno Gabini saw in Mongolian braids was: "Shave off your hair at the top of your head, shave off a bald dome, shave off your hair from one ear to the other, and shave off your hair two fingers wide above your forehead. The hair between the two-finger wide place and the bald dome is shaved to allow it to grow to the eyebrows; Because more hair is cut from both sides of the forehead, less hair is cut in the center of the forehead, which makes the hair in the center longer; The rest of the hair allows it to grow and braid it into two braids, one behind each ear. " In his Travels to the East, Guillaume de Rubru quis also described the braids he saw: "Shave off a square on the top of the head, and continue to shave down from the left and right corners in front of this place, passing through the sides of the head until the sideburns, shaving off the hair on both sides of the sideburns and the back of the neck, shaving off the hair from the forehead to the top of the forehead bone, and leaving a bunch of hair on the forehead bone, hanging down to the eyebrows. There are hairs on both sides and back of the head, and these hairs are braided around the head and hang down to the ears. "