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Hey~~ I just got into Chinese dramas and novels and was wondering something about traditional chinese hairstyles. In many novels it is mentioned that men would tie their hair in ponytails- but so far I havenât seen any in tv series? Was it common? Btw thank you for all your posts about hanfusâŁïžâŁïžâŁïž
Hi, thanks for the question!
Historically, Chinese men wore their hair in a single bun on top of their head, not in a ponytail. Ponytails were not a thing for men (or women for that matter) in ancient & imperial China. Perhaps the âponytailâ you see mentioned in novels is actually referring to the bun?Â
Below - examples of historically accurate menâs bun hairstyles in Chinese dramas:Â
Another possibility is that they are indeed referring to a standard ponytail. Many Chinese dramas & novels with âhistoricalâ settings (especially wuxia genre) do depict men in ponytails. This isnât based on history, but is rather a stylistic convention thatâs become accepted and common over time (mainly because it looks cool ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ).
Below - examples of historically inaccurate menâs ponytail hairstyles in Chinese dramas (the bangs arenât historically accurate either...):
For more information, please check out the following posts:
Historical Chinese menâs hairstyles
Tutorials on how to create the bun
Historical Chinese menâs hair accessories
Guan (headdress worn over bun) - 1Â & 2
For all my posts on traditional Chinese menâs hairstyles & headwear, please check out my menâs hairstyles and men's headwear tags.
Hope this helps! ^^
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The Shadowscapes Tarot â 3 of cups
The Shadowscapes Tarot â 3 of cups
Hey everyone! Today itâs time we look at another tarot card interpretation. This time, itâs the Three of Cups from the now-familiar Shadowscapes Tarot deck. I donât know what else to say as an intro, so Iâll jump into things. What do we see? The first thing we see is the main color of the card, blue. There is another color or mix of 2 colors that stand out: green or green/yellow. The next thingsâŠ
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REVIEW - Exquisa Creation gegrilltes GEMUSE
REVIEW â Exquisa Creation gegrilltes GEMUSE
Hi everyone! This entry first appeared in July of 2015, on my old blog dedicated to cooking. I abandoned that blog when i ârebrandedâ so to speak. Through the ârebranding,â I moved most of the entries from my former 2 blogs to my current one, ObscureJourney. But then, I re-split my blog to have this site dedicated to reviews. This food review was somehow overlooked, along with a few otherâŠ
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For insulation. Both sound and temperature-wise. Romanians do it too in the countryside. During the communist regime, it was easy to hear what your neighbors were talking about if you put your ear against the common wall. A carpet on the wall will prevent the sound from traveling, so this was very useful at some point in time.
I assume it also ha a decorative purpose, but of course trends and preferences changed, and we don't really find this as "aesthetically pleasing" anymore. It can only look good in a very rustic house, but it should be done along with other rustic decor elements.
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do you know Chinese symbolism for homosexuality?
tw homophobia, pedophilia
Hi again, for gay men there are a couple really well known ones but Iâm not sure if they were real or fabricated, because all the articles describing them always cite the same couple sources from Antiquity... I tried to verify them but the only articles that didnât copy and paste from the same source came across as extremely homophobic, so I decided to give up. The most common and reliable one is probably æèą or âcut sleeveâ, which I mentioned in a previous ask. I would like to use this opportunity to talk about some tangential but more important topics regarding homosexuality in China though.
As a followup to my previous ask where I said I'd look through some Ming and Qing novels to see how homosexuality was perceived at the time, the conclusion I (unfortunately) came to was that homophobia was very much alive and well in Chinese literature and society. A lot of people like to argue that gay people fared pretty well in China historically by either pointing to emperors who were or were rumored to be gay or time periods where gay sex was prevalent as a form of consumption. This is extremely shallow and also kind of Orientalist in my opinion, these arguments always go for the emperors and do not take nuance into consideration or dive into wider societal discourses on homosexuality in imperial China. If you research homosexuality in Europe by only looking at royalty, youâll find plenty of homosexual behavior too, does that mean gay people had it very easy in Europe historically?? Not to mention that they usually donât differentiate between dynasties, let alone centuries or decades, even though public opinion on homosexuality in China (or anywhere in the world tbh) could change very quickly. This is also sort of Orientalist, assuming âimperial Chinaâ to be a never changing entity with a never changing stance on homosexuality. Since I know nothing prior to the Ming Dynasty Iâll share some of my random findings on homosexuality and homophobia in the Ming, Qing and 20th century.
Gayness as disease
Nowadays the symbol of the cut sleeve is just a benign historical allusion but historically it seems that it was used in a negative and condemning sense, implying that people thought of homosexuality as a disease or deviation from the norm. The common phrase used for the cut sleeve is "æèąäčç", usually translated as "the passion of the cut sleeve" nowadays, but the meaning of the word ç here leans more toward "fetish", "obsession" or "hobby" with pathological connotations. I thought maybe this word had a different, nuanced meaning historically but it seems that it was used to describe what it means :(( The only silver lining is probably that with the progression of language it isnât offensive anymore.
In a lot of popular novels from the Ming and Qing, homosexuality was depicted as a "perversion" and a decadent lifestyle that plagues morality, and gay characters were often either killed or straightened out by the end of the story. An example of this is the story é»äčé Huang Jiulang from the series èæćżćŒ Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by èČæŸéŸ Pu Songling written in the 17th century. In this story, one of the protagonists was gay; he died after confessing his love to the other guy in a very fast paced bury your gays arc which somehow reminded me of the Supernatural finale, and reincarnated as a straight man because of his piety. Thanks I hate it. Pu uses the symbol of the cut sleeve to refer to the protagonist, presumably in a negative manner.
Gayness as power/status symbol
Another thing was that historically in China a lot of people confused homosexuality with pedophilia. This is a global thing, but its presence in China is often overlooked. This could be seen in the popularity of another term for homosexuality, "ćšç«„", meaning something similar to "pederasty". I read somewhere that since the late Ming, pederasty was considered a type of tasteful consumption for high society, along with things like fashion, food, music and art. This was not equivalent to the "cut sleeve" or homosexuality as we know it nowadays, which refers to a personal sexual orientation, pederasty historically often refers to an imbalanced power dynamic where a wealthy, privileged man takes advantage of a young boy as a leisurely activity. Itâs more to show off that someone in a position of privilege and wealth has the power to procure sexual objects, gender and age donât matter much in this regard. I cannot help but cringe violently whenever someone brings up pederasty as proof of Chinaâs historical âopennessâ toward gay people. Talk to me again when in this time and place you could marry someone of your sex (not a minor) and be considered a respectable couple instead of two jerks with a degenerate fetish (not saying that gay people have to marry, itâs just that the ability to do so is an important indicator of equality imo). Pedophilia and homosexuality are not one and the same good heavens.
I hypothesize that the reason why Chinese society was historically homophobic despite having no religious condemnation of homosexual individuals was the idea that having many concubines and male children was a status symbol for men. Women of marriageable age were seen more or less as commodities and male children could supposedly "continue the bloodline" äŒ éŠç« and were vessels for passing down prestige, so having them were of utmost importance to a privileged man. Being just gay or lesbian, however, meant that you didn't perform the "man strong working woman weak making babies" heteronormative family prototype, and was thus prone to criticism. When gay men didnât have children they âcouldnât continue their bloodlineâ and were emasculated, when gay women didnât have children they failed to âfulfill their duties as a womanâ and were shamed.
It kind of makes sense considering how being bisexual was never a problem in comparison, especially for men. If you were a rich guy who had both male and female partners, you would still have children and concubines both male and female so nobody gives a shit. Emperor Zhengde of the Ming (reign 1505-21) was presumably bisexual and had both male and female lovers, nobody had a bone to pick with that; he famously liked to fuck around but those who criticized him did so for his debauchery instead of focusing on the gender of his partners. This is different to homophobia in Europe where same sex attraction was considered evil and immoral in and of itself because of religious reasons, in China it was rather the other practical implications of homosexuality (not having children or a family) that attracted hate.
By the way can we just take a moment to talk about bi erasure in Chinese history. From all accounts of Emperor Zhengde Iâve read he comes across as extremely bisexual, but a lot of people try to make him a gay icon? I mean, he liked women too.
One interesting homophobic angle in ye olde China which I find kind of funny was straight women who wanted to climb the social ladder by marrying rich men talking shit about them after figuring out they were gay lmao. Historically, there were not so many work opportunities for women, so the easiest way to improve social standing was to marry a rich and powerful guy. Not saying that women didn't work, they did but their upward social mobility was restricted because they couldn't enter the imperial examination system which was how men became rich and powerful. This angle is relatively benign and kind of helps illustrate that historical Chinese homophobia was indeed fueled by classism and patriarchy.
Gayness as crime
I used to think that there were no anti-sodomy statutes in China (laws prohibiting sex between gay men), but it turns out that there was one decree in the Jiajing era (1521-67) and one in 1740, and private gay sex was not actually decriminalized until 1957. Same sex marriage is still not legal in China at time of writing. I couldnât find detailed information on what these laws entailed or how they were enforced, but theyâre enough to prove that homosexuality in China was legally punishable from the 16th century onward. On top of that, even when there was no law prohibiting private sex acts between people of the same sex, displays of gay affection such as kissing or holding hands could still be legally punished under âpublic indecencyâ or âhooliganismâ, which was frequently what happened in the 20th century.Â
Thank you for this explanation and insight. I was also curious about this topic - thanks, Mo Dao Zu Shi -_- XDD
I believe that most societies and cultures in the past, saw homosexuality as something bad. :( If the society/culture wasn't Christian, being attracted to a person of the same sex was bad because you couldn't procreate. :( This seems fair enough and a better reason than the Christian one, to some extent.
The majority of us, today, don't see procreation as important as our ancestors did. I think procreation also gave them a reason to live - they worked hard, accumulated some possessions that would be left to whom? when they died. Many of us today don't care about this aspect anymore, mostly because we can write up a will and thus we take care of our possessions.
Additionally, we can (more or less) easily adopt a child these days. Surely, same-sex couples have a harder time at that, and in some places, it's not even possible for them to do so, but there ARE options.
The Shadowscapes Tarot â Two of Swords
The Shadowscapes Tarot â Two of Swords
Hello people! Today we have another tarot card interpretation. Today we have the Two of Swords from the same Shadowscapes deck i own. This entry doesnât have snippets of the card, because theyâre broken on the official site. Instead, i used another image i found on there. If you want to see the card for yourself, please use the link above. What do we see? This card is rich as far as the imageryâŠ
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The Shadowscapes Tarot â Nine of Swords
The Shadowscapes Tarot â Nine of Swords
Hello again! Another tarot card interpretation is here! I hope soon iâll have another movie or book review as well. I have quite a few of those in the works, so. Ok, so if you want to see this card in all its glory, you can go to the official page. Otherwise, youâll have to rely on what i say and show you. What do we see? One of the first things we see is the dominant color, a dark hue of blueâŠ
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