Chinese braided pigtails or Chinese Queues

Chinese braided pigtails or Chinese Queues

已有 12 次閱讀2015-9-3 10:40|個人分類:People history|係統分類:生活其它 推薦到群組

I thought I knew but I didn't, so many things, so many times; however, so little time, too much to do, that I can't chase my curiosity. I got a joke in coffee room today. Mike talked about Jet Li movies and asked about why and when Chinese liked pigtail?

 

I couldn't say anthing as i didn't know the answer to his question. Drinking coffee now, thank God for this moment, I surfed Google to find it out as I felt that, so embarrassing I don't know my own culture.

 

Reading it, I realized that Chinese has gone through the mill: Paid their dues, withstood, deserving respect from other civilization. Our Chinese should hold head hight, chest up, shoulders back, tomy tucked in, stride, being proud of our own history. All in all, Chinese gotta respect ourselves before we demand others' respect - the key is pride comes from within.

 Chinese braided pigtails or Chinese Queues, used to "show a sign of dignity and manhood - For the Chinese, to pull on another's pigtails was a great insult."

That's what 說起辜鴻銘，留給國人印象最深的，大概要算那條拖在他腦後的長辮子了。這在北京，稱得上出土文物式的一景。

 

辜鴻銘的辮子，並不是僅僅為了複古而留。早在英國留學時，他已剪掉辮子，西裝革履，一副洋派。後來人人談論反清革命，他反而把滿清人硬栽上的辮子重新留了起來。原因很可能是“立異以為高”。當然，也符合他複古派的身份。

北大的學生嘲笑他，他反唇相譏：“我頭上的辮子是有形的，你們心中的辮子是無形的。”^[8]

 

 

有一次，

辜鴻銘被史稱文壇怪傑

中日甲午戰爭後，伊藤博文到中國漫遊，在武昌時與張之洞有過接觸。辜鴻銘作為幕僚送給伊藤一本剛出版的《論語》英譯本。伊藤早知道辜鴻銘是中國保守派中的先鋒，便乘機調侃他道：“聽說你精通西洋學術，難道還不清楚孔子之教能行於兩千多年前，卻不能行於二十世紀的今天嗎？”辜鴻銘見招拆招，回答道：“孔子教人的方法，就好比數學家的加減乘除，在數千年前，其法是三三得九，如今二十世紀，其法仍然是三三得九，並不會三三得八。”伊藤竟一時語塞。

 

九

辜鴻銘和胡適可謂是最大的冤家對頭了，辜鴻銘蔑視西學，而胡適卻推崇西學。他們在新文化運動中也多次交鋒。在劇中也有雙方對孔教的爭論。

胡適1917年剛被聘為北大教授時，作為北大最年輕的教授，做了一次演講，用英文念了一句荷馬的詩，結果下麵也傳來了一陣英文，意思是胡適先生的英語是英國下等人的發音，而嘲諷胡適的也就是辜鴻銘，這便是兩人的第一次衝突。之後就是各種衝突不斷。

 

http://baike.baidu.com/view/1998.htm

 

I wonder how many of you can say: ：“我們心中無辮子。”心中無翹辮子：“我們心中無辮子。”

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The Chinese were forced to wear pigtails by whom and for how long and what superstition is involved in the cutting of the pigtail? Question #40908. Asked by supermary345. (Nov 09 03 6:49 AM)

 

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png23 This answer has 1 vote   Vote for this answer

The pigtail was a mark of political enslavement to the Manchu dynasty, and westerners made fun of the Chinese hair style. The pigtail was abolished in China in 1911 when the Manchu dynasty was overthrown in favor of the Republic. Cutting off a pigtail was a terrible insult to the Chinese as they believed it would hurt them spiritually. http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpigtail.html I also found this reference: "Originally it was a sign of submision demanded by the first Manchu Emperor only one year after seizing the throne in 1645. Chinese men shaved the front of their head, then combed the back hair into braids. They used not only their own natural hair, but also horsehair or black silk. The Chinese came to see their braided pigtails a sign of dignity and manhood. For the Chinese, to pull on another's pigtails was a great insult." So the custom would have lasted for 265 years.   Nov 09 03, 10:12 AM

Siskin This answer has 1 vote   Vote for this answer

Chinese boys and men until the Revolution were famous for wearing plaited pigtails. This was a fashion introduced by the Manchus in the 17th century. Originally it was a sign of submission demanded by the first Manchu Emperor only one year after seizing the throne in 1645. Chinese men shaved the front of their head, then combed the back hair into braids. They used not only their own natural hair, but also horsehair or black silk. The Chinese came to see their braided pigtails a sign of dignity and manhood. For the Chinese, to pull on another's pigtails was a great insult. The pigtails were abolished in 1911. http://histclo.hispeed.com/country/other/china/hair/china-hair.html   Nov 09 03, 10:17 AM

Senior Moments     Vote for this answer

The line of people answering this is very apt as the pigtails were also known as queues.   Nov 09 03, 4:54 PM

mochyn     Vote for this answer

That is where "jumping the queue" originated, the Han Chinese detested the Manchu rule, so in 1911 when they all cut off their pigtails they jumped on them to show their displeasure.   Nov 09 03, 4:59 PM

gmackematix     Vote for this answer

Yes Mochyn. And when they all jumped at the same designated time, the Earth shifted slightly in its orbit. ;-)   Nov 09 03, 7:51 PM

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