My Inseparable House Guests

Remember in a second [new] ()

Back at the Bureau of Demon Control, Zhuang Zhuang was playing games with Su Jie in the lobby on the first floor. The difference was that he had mineral water next to the table this time, instead of the drinks he used to drink. x

"Isn't your kidney stone cured? Why don't you dare to drink?" Fang Ze asked with a smile before going upstairs.

"If you have tasted the pain I felt that day, I will tell you that you will never drink again in your life." Zhuang Zhuang gave Fang Ze a white look, and then asked, "By the way, you have been busy these days What, I haven't seen you for more than a week."

"Busy studying." Fang Ze stretched his waist and went upstairs without saying a word.

Just as Fang Ze stepped onto the second floor, this week's guests also arrived as scheduled.

"Hello." Fang Ze greeted the dark-skinned, tall and fat guest in front of him.

"Hello, Mr. Landlord." The guest cupped his hands slightly to Fang Ze, and then said, "Xia Cao, my name is Mengruan. I don't know what the name of Mr. Landlord is."

"Just call me Fang Ze." Fang Ze turned his head slightly as he spoke, and saw Cao's pigtail-like braid, and immediately understood who he was.

Cao Xueqin, the famous author of Dream of Red Mansions!

This is indeed a great literati. A single Dream of Red Mansions has supported many experts in red studies.

Some people say that Cao Xueqin's real appearance is similar to that of Jia Baoyu in Dream of the Red Chamber, both of which have the face of the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival and the color of flowers in the dawn of spring. The temples are cut like a knife, the eyebrows are like ink paintings, the face is like peach petals, and the eyes are like autumn waves.

Whether the real Cao Xueqin looks like this is unknown to future generations, but the Cao standing in front of Fang Ze at this time is indeed not very handsome, just an ordinary, old uncle.

But this is also normal, no matter how handsome Cao Xueqin is, it will be smoothed by time, not to mention that after the decline of the Cao family, Cao Xueqin needs to run around every day for food and clothing, no matter how handsome a person is, he will gradually become ugly and old, Just like the actor who played Jia Baoyu in the first version of Dream of Red Mansions, he was indeed handsome back then, but if you search for recent photos, you will probably shout out who the hell is this.

"According to the god who sent me here, it is already the year I am in, hundreds of years later?" Cao continued to ask.

"Yeah." Fang Ze nodded, then thought for a while, and added, "The Qing Dynasty is dead."

Fang Ze's words didn't surprise Cao much, he just nodded indifferently and said, "After all, hundreds of years have passed, so he should die."

Looking at Cao's expression, Fang Ze was a little puzzled at first, but soon figured it out.

Although Cao's family is a bannerman, they are not Manchus, but Han army banners, and their ancestral home is in Shandong. The demise of the Qing Dynasty, in his opinion, was the same as the sudden decline of his own family back then, but it was all a reincarnation of history.

"Looking at your hair style, I don't know which clan is ruling China now?"

"The Chinese nation." Fang Ze replied with a smile when he heard Cao's question, "Short hair is for convenience. Nowadays, no matter what nationality, everyone has short hair."

"That's true. Back then, I shaved my hair and kept braids to save my life. Now it's okay to cut the braids and keep short hair for convenience. It looks better than braids."

"No one keeps your hairstyle now, and you will be watched when you go out. Why don't I find you a hat to wear?" Fang Ze said while taking a peaked cap that someone put down from the cabinet on the second floor stand up.

Before Fang Ze said that Cao had a pig's tail behind him, there was really not much insult in it. In the early Qing Dynasty, the braid was indeed like a pig's tail.

Don't look at those TV dramas that play the Qing Dynasty, all the princes and ministers have long black and shiny braids, but they are all fake. The real Qing Dynasty braids are also called money rat tails. The front and top must be shaved. Only a little bit of the back of the head can be left, so the braid will not be too long at all. It looks like a rat tail or a pig tail, which is why it has this title.

In the early Qing Dynasty, the standards for shaving hair were very strict. Whoever dared to wear big braids would be beheaded directly.

Because the reason why the Manchus keep this kind of braid,

In fact, it is to avoid hair blocking the sight or interfering with archery when fighting on horseback. Too long hair is very detrimental to the riding and archery nation.

Moreover, the Jurchens lived in the Northeast at that time. When fishing and hunting in the wild in winter, they wore cotton hats. If they left their hair on and sweated, it would freeze and the hat would stick to the hair. Taking off the hat would tear off the scalp, causing the head to heat up quickly. Loss, in the most severe cases, can lead to death.

So shaving hair was originally for practicality, not aesthetic, but over time, it became a custom.

However, as a riding and archery nation, the Khitan people who disappeared in history did not have long hair, but they did not wear braids, but knuckles. That is to shave the top of the head, leaving only a small circle of hair around, wear a small braid, or keep it long and shave it short, you can feel free.

But what is interesting is that the Qing Dynasty stipulated that ordinary people and ministers shave their hair, but the emperor himself did not shave his hair like a money rat. In all the portraits of emperors before Qianlong, hair can be clearly seen on both sides under the hat.

In some statues, the ancestors of the Manchus also had long hair. For example, the statue of Aixinjue Luobu Kuri Yongshun, the legendary ancestor of the Qing Dynasty emperor, basically has the same image as the Han nationality, and also has long hair.

So it can be judged that the early Manchu nobles all had long hair, after all, they looked beautiful. Among the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, it wasn't until Qianlong that they didn't have long hair. As for the fourth elder brother Yongzheng, who is widely loved by some women who wear clothes in the Qing Dynasty, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty have also shaved their tails of money.

But this habit didn't last long. By the time of the last emperor Puyi, Puyi had always had a Western hairstyle and didn't have braids at all. So now some people who chase after their ancestors and claim to be descendants of Aixinjueluo for many generations, don't even keep their braids right, and dare to say that their surname is Aixinjueluo.

Putting on the hat, Cao stood in front of the mirror and looked at it with satisfaction, then sat on the sofa, feeling that the sofa was so comfortable, he couldn't help moving his buttocks.

"Which family is the emperor now?"

"There are no more emperors. After the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty abdicated, there will be no emperors in China."

"There is no emperor?!" Cao raised his head in surprise.

"Well, nothing." Fang Ze said, "Do you know the republic in the Zhou Dynasty? It was the period when King Li was expelled and the ministers discussed the state together. It is almost the same as that time now."

"Understood." As soon as Fang Ze mentioned the allusion, Cao immediately understood what kind of ruling method is now.

Although the republic of the Western Zhou Dynasty is fundamentally different from the modern republic, they are roughly the same without going into details.

There is no emperor, and the various families in the country negotiate to govern the country. rw

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