All that's hair to stay
Back in 1927, a newspaper reported that a father severely punished his daughter for cutting her hair. He ordered her to write a confession and place it, along with her sundered braid, in front of the ancestral plaques in their home.
In 1991, the first Wiry Hairdo, radiating outward from my cousin's head, came into my house. The fashionable coiffure didn't stay long. Cousin ran out in tears when Father scolded, "What did you do to your hair? It's too ugly."
Hair, those seemingly innocuous strands atop your head, has raised much ire in China's long history. From the chopping off of men's long braids at the end of the Qing Dynasty (1944-1911) to women making waves with chemical "perms" in the 1980s, hairstyles have been making statements loud and clear.
Creative hairstyles started blossoming in 1979, with the reform and opening-up policy. In the preceding decades, function trumped form as men and women stuck with practical hairdo's that went with the times.
Creative hairstyles started blossoming in 1979, with the reform and opening-up policy. In the preceding decades, function trumped form as men and women stuck with practical hairdo's that went with the times. In the 1950s and 1960s, braids (麻花辫
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