Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-25
Cinnamon With Short Hair Viewed as
Man Would be Without
Trousers.
Most all Cinnamon Prefer Prison and
Many Stripes to Losing Their
Queues.
Queues.

two pendant tails. There are also coun-
tries where all the hair is shaved off ex-
cept that at the crown, which is tied into
one queue. The author also mentions
that some nations pluck out the hair en-
tlrely, while others cut it short. Some
people, ne says, let the hair flow loose
down on the shoulders, while others pre-
fer TO plat it. In some instances the
front hair Is plated and the back hair left
loose.
1t is difficult to locate with exactneos
the places he names. For twelve centuries
ago the Aslatic peoples were more migr4-
tory than a. present, and named the lands
they lived in from themselves, no matter
no" often they changed their residence.
1t Is easy to detern me that the people who
shaved the head and board were Buddhist
monks and nuns In India, Ceylon, Siam
and China; that the people with two
tail" were the Japanese, Coreans and
some of the tribes we now call che indie
pendent Iartars, because probably tkey
are owned body and boots by Russia. AMI
that the race which shaved all but toe
crown and tied the hair at that spot into
one queue were the Mancbu- Tartars or
nomad jewellers of Manchuria.
The Chinese peoples, for at that time
what is now single empire was a large
number of petty warning Kingdoms, wore
their hair according to their pleasure.
The poorer classes kept it cut short; the
wealthy allowed it to grow long, and like
the Roman nobility in the reign of Nero,
spent extraordinary amounts of time,
trouble and money upon its cultivation. A
prince of Shon 81, about 700 A D., is de-
scrlbed as wearing a crown braided from
eighteen plaits Of his hair, and ornament
ed with silver and Jewels. A thousand
years passed away and the Tartar custom,
which this authyr described as an out
landl8h novelty, became the custom Of all
China. The crown was left, but all the
rest OF the hair was Shayen. This became
the natlo al custom at the Manchu COZ
quest, about A. D. 1914
1t did not become the rule in China 10
shave off the hair all round the crown
from any religious motive, but simply by
military Compulsi0n. You have to obov
orders, said the conquerors, sword in
hand. eff you refuse TO shave according
to our Tartar custom you must die, for re-
fusal will constitute you a rebel" So the
change was made from the northeast pro-
vince as the conquest proceeded till the
whole nation had their heads shaved ex-
cept the crown. And they have kept 10
up ever since OF the 200 100000 male
citizens of the Celestial kingdom, 100, SEQ
600 sport the queue.
There is belief current in tae United
States that Chinaman who loses his ply.
tail is not allowed to return to his native
land, but that is arrant nonsense. A
Chinaman who cuts off his capillary APP
pendage and appears with short hair In
public Is viewed exactly as an American
would be who presented himself in streets
fully dressed with the omission of trous.
ers! A queue IS wearing appare A
Mongolian with scant hair braids ia II
artificial hair or adds silk threads. A
bald man employs a false q1eue that is
fastened to the inside Of his cap. A
Cooie regards himself as we'll at6ir6L
when he wears bathing trunks ana h..o
lis pigCail nicely combed aud oiled
The ManchuS, Waen they began their
onderful career of CONQUEST in the tn
tenth century, did not at first insist upon
their GO Iquered foes adopting The tonsorial
style as a mark O. subj aC'iOn. Only when
they had overrun so many lands and poo
pies that it became difficult to distinguish
vassaI and serf from open foe, d d they
adopt the present. The queue was fvro-l
upon Kuldja tribes In tue fifteenth century;
upon the people of Mongolia in the SIX
teenth, on the Shantung at the beginning
of the seventC enth, and on the remainder
Of China N the next fly years. If il be
asked why did the Tartars shave. the re-
ply will probably be correct that the Gus
tom began in religion, and was continued
for cleanliness, for fashions SAKE and for
the comfort of the SKIN. That religion
Was the originating cause Is likely, be-
Gauss In India, with the spread of Bad
dhism the shaving of the entire head be
came very common.
This was in pursuance of a VOW to fv1-
sake the world. The monastic vow o. TIE
Buddhists required abandonment of
worldly enj0yments and luxurips To
drink wine and eat flesh are both forbid
Gen. People prided themselves on their
hair and therefore that must 60 also.
The monk and nun must truly fol sax the
world. The entire loss of the h4ir Is
requisite for everyone who gives hims4pr
in cordial devotion to Buddha, thu Law
and the priesthood In the case of nve1y
Buddhist shaving of the entire head Is tie
fruir of a religious vow, professedly made
will to forsake the world. It is only dis
pensed with when he takes a greater 70 V
that of the long-hai1 ed aScetic. gu ID
hism opens the way to a succession IF
succession of stages IN the religious ifo,
and he who wears his hair unshorn has
reached 4 higher grade than the shaver
crowd of monks who chant their prayers
together in praise of Buddha in the sacred
boII of their tpmDIe.
In the joss-housos ar Amov you GU
grade the priests according to their petrs
The greenhcrn Is undistlnguisnab If IN
the every day citizen; but the boss hero
pnant. the full incarnation of sanctity, has
a Uranium as smooth as billiard ball.
But the tonsure did not begin with the
Buddhists. It began IN southwestern Asia,
that wonderful center Of the world or at
movements of thought, or in Egypt, early
distin puished for its civilization. The
egyptian priests were completely shorn,
and from them the habit of shaving off
hair ana beard extended to the IaIty. Only
the women, who apparently in all ancient
civilizations were regarded and treated
either as property or az domestic animals
ALWAYS wore their own hair, and they
were not shaved even in mourning OF after
death.
Shaving was universal among the men,
but the hair and heard were allowed to
grow in times of mourning They wore
wigs instead of their natural hair, and
they had wig for the chin which could