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  2. Queue (hairstyle) - Wikipedia

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    [28] [29] [30] The hair on the front of the head was shaved off above the temples every ten days and the remainder of the hair was braided into a long braid. [31] The Manchu hairstyle was forcefully introduced to Han Chinese and other ethnicities like the Nanai in the early 17th century during the transition from Ming to Qing.

  3. Tifayifu - Wikipedia

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    Wearing the queue (bianzi) was traditionally a Manchurian hairstyle, which was itself a variant of northern tribes' hairstyle, including the Jurchen. [5]: 60 It differed from the way Han Chinese styled their hair; the Han Chinese kept long hair with all their hair grown over their head and was coiled into a topknot, held into place by Chinese headwear.

  4. Jurchen people - Wikipedia

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    Jurchen (Manchu: ᠵᡠᡧᡝᠨ, romanized: Jušen, IPA:; Chinese: 女真, romanized: Nǚzhēn, [nỳ.ʈʂə́n]) is a term used to collectively describe a number of East Asian Tungusic-speaking people. [a] They lived in northeastern China, also known as Manchuria, before the 18th century.

  5. Braid (hairstyle) - Wikipedia

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    The Manchu men have historically braided their hair. After conquering Beijing in 1644 and establishing the Qing Dynasty , they forced the men of the subjugated Han Chinese to adopt this hairstyle as an expression of loyalty, which involved shaving the forehead and sides and leaving a long queue at the back ( 剃髮易服 tìfà yìfú ).

  6. Manchu people - Wikipedia

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    The traditional hairstyle for Manchu men is shaving the front of their heads while growing the hair on the back of their heads into a single braid called a queue (辮子; biànzi), which was known as soncoho in Manchu. During the Qing dynasty, the queue was legally mandated for male Ming Chinese subjects in the Qing Empire.

  7. Long hair - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in 1619, the ethnic Manchu Qing dynasty forced all men in China to adopt the queue: a long braid down the back with the hair near the forehead completely shaved. Hair length and style became a life-or-death matter in 1645 as the Manchu told them either their hair or their head would be cut.

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  9. Ponytail - Wikipedia

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    Being a Manchu hairstyle, it was imposed on the Han Chinese to force them into submission. [4] The queue hairstyle involves shaving the rest of the hair on the front and sides of the head, leaving a meagre portion that is tightly tied into a braid. [4]