This object from the Worcester City Museum Collection was researched and written about by Bethany Khan. Reference image of Chinese men with queue hairstyles from * Han Chinese: a Chinese ethnic group that originated from the Han dynasty, 206 BC- 220 AD. This would have significantly affected Chinese immigrants, as keeping their queue was the only way to secure their chance of returning to China. In 1873, California, the Pigtail Ordinance was enforced this meant that all prisoners had to have their hair cut within an inch of their scalp. So a Chinese man without a queue was the same as a dead man. Not shaving your hair was treason against the emperor and was punishable by death. The policy of the Qing dynasty’s queue was “lose your hair, keep your head or lose your head, keep your hair”. Many men refused to shave their heads, to show defiance to the Qing rule, but were executed. Traditionally, Chinese men and women grew their hair long and then styled it in elaborate ways the queue denied them their cultural right to grow their hair. The queue was originally a symbol of submission but was also a sign of repression the Qing Dynasty used this to show their dominance in China. It was then ordered that all Han Chinese* men had to shave and braid their hair (except for Buddhist monks and Taoist priests). Thousands of Chinese residents who have been self-isolating for a month are now queuing for up to two hours to be allowed inside shopping centres slowly reopening amid the coronavirus outbreak. In the past Chinese men did not wear queues, their. In 1644, a Manchu army conquered China and thus the Qing dynasty born. Story By: John Feng, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report. Actually the Pig queues were not a Chinese (Han Chinese) thing. The queue was a hairstyle in which the front and sides of the head were shaved and the rest was plaited into a braid, this was originally a Manchu (a north-eastern Chinese region) hairstyle. The queue hairstyle (or pigtail) was worn by Chinese men between the 1600s and the early 1900s.
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