What is the origin of a female culture unique to China?

Born in the late Qing Dynasty, the self-combing girl is a special group unique to the Pearl River Delta region. According to the "Shunde County Chronicle", at that time, the silk industry in Shunde was developed, and many female workers had considerable incomes and were financially independent.

They saw that after some sisters got married, they were angry in their in-laws' family and had a low status, so they were unwilling to be bound by this and were willing not to marry for life, so they gave birth to self-combing girls. The situation of self-combing women in other parts of the Pearl River Delta is similar to that in Shunde.

The origin of the name "self-combing" is probably as follows: in the past, unmarried women in Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta wore a long braid and hung it behind their backs, and when they got married, their mothers or female elders pulled the braids into a ball and clasped them tightly to the back of their heads, which was called a bun. Through a specific ritual, the self-combing girl pulls her braids into a bun, indicating that she will never marry and will be celibate for the rest of her life.

The silk industry in Shunde is developed, many female workers have considerable incomes, and they are not willing to be bound by this economic independence, and they are willing not to marry for life, so they have a self-combing girl.

Under the strict feudal etiquette, many female compatriots are inspired not to marry, and they pull up their hair, which gives rise to self-combing girls.

It is to express a kind of dissatisfaction and resistance to society, comb his own hair, and not marry

From time to time, visitors discuss the scene of the Bingyutang in the exhibition hall to discuss the Shunde self-combing girl. The most common conversation I hear is, "What is a self-obedience woman?"

It was the girls of ancient times who combed their hair up and never married for the rest of their lives. "How do you comb it up? "She combed it herself.

There are many similar discussions, all of which reflect that although there are not many experts and scholars who have discussed the historical phenomenon of self-combing women, the cognition of most ordinary audiences is still in a state of assumption and little understanding.

In Guangdong, some girls put their hair up, which means that they will never marry.

This phenomenon is prevalent in the areas where Hakka people gather in the Pearl River Delta.

Self-combing refers to women who coil up their hair like a married woman to show that they will never marry and be single for the rest of their lives, and they will be called pure women after death, which is a kind of ancient Chinese female culture. The emergence of such a group is due to the awakening of women's sense of independence, and they are financially and spiritually independent, which is very respectable.

Self-combing women use the combing ceremony to declare that they will not marry for life, because they oppose contemporary etiquette and moral kidnapping, and self-combing means that the elders no longer have the right to seek relatives for her.

This is a group of women who seek equality and rebel against the requirements of the old social norms for women. In order to rewrite their fate, they combed their hair and never married. I admire this group of women whose feminist consciousness rose in that era, and I definitely don't dare to ask for me, so I can only silently accept the arrangement of fate.

Combing is to comb up your hair for a lifetime without marrying, this is all ancient feudal thinking, when this woman is sold to a family as a maid, then she does not have any personal freedom, and she has to serve people in this family for the rest of her life.

"Self-combing women" refer to some women who wanted to be avant-garde in ancient times, unwilling to live dependent on men, and they had enough financial ability to take care of themselves for a lifetime. So they swore before the gods that they would become self-combing girls and would never marry. Once they become self-combing girls, even their parents have no right to claim their marriage.

Before the Ming Dynasty, the social status of women had always been very low. In ancient times, women had to follow the "three obedience and four virtues", listen to their parents when they were young, attach themselves to their husbands after marriage, and rely on their sons after their husbands die. The fate of his life is in the hands of others, and he has no rights.

But with the continuous development of society, there will always be some women who will slowly wake up, they are not willing to live such a restrained life by themselves, and they want to change their fate. Although the status of women was improved during the Tang Dynasty, it was not enough to change the long-standing problems of the whole society.

In the Ming Dynasty, due to the rapid development of the handicraft industry, such as the textile industry, many women were needed to join, so gradually women also had the opportunity to work in the market and could have employment relationships. Therefore, there are a large number of self-combing women.

Once you become a self-combing girl, then you can't regret it for life. Usually the families of self-combing girls are more financially well-off, their parents can provide them with a house to live in, and they themselves have the ability to survive. These self-combing girls will spend their lives in the house prepared by their parents.

Since the self-combing girls have sworn in front of the gods, they must not be easily repented. If you secretly have an affair with someone after becoming a self-combing girl, the end is very bleak and sad. When the comb girl reaches old age, she must go to a designated place to end the rest of her life.

They cannot grow old in their own homes, and when they die, they have no way to enter the ancestral grave of their family, so they can only be buried in a special place. There are almost no family members and relatives who come to mourn, only some sisters who are also self-combing girls come to visit. Therefore, if you want to become a self-combing girl, the ** pay is also very large.

The so-called self-combing woman means that women with economic status are reluctant to marry. They don't want to be attached to others, they don't want to serve other men. Her parents would build her a house for her to live in.

You don't have to serve anyone in this room, you don't have to look at anyone's eyes, and you live the life you want until you are old. These women are not allowed to have a right of remorse and are not allowed to die in their parents' homes.

In the late feudal period, some women slowly woke up, no longer willing to get married and have children, and followed the three obedience and four virtues. So they decided not to marry for life and became "self-combing girls".

"Self-combing girl" is to comb up your hair, which means that you will never marry. Some women slowly awakened in the late feudal period and were unwilling to live a life where they could see the end of the day, so they became self-combing women.

Self-combing women coil their hair into the appearance of a married woman, and vow not to marry for life, celibate to old age, and call them "pure women" after death, which is a very unique group of women!

In feudal society, self-combing women are a kind of group of women who do not marry and do not marry, helping each other and living, and it is also a reflection of women's independence.

refers to a group of women who will never marry, most of them are a group of women in South China who have the courage to rebel against feudal etiquette.

A self-combing woman is a woman who pulls up a woman's hairstyle by herself, never marries for life, and is self-reliant and self-reliant and does not rely on men.

It's a very special kind of existence, because they are very independent and have their own thoughts.

In ancient times, "self-combing women" were a group of self-reliant and self-reliant women, who combed their hair and helped each other and never married in their lives.

In feudal society, the latter was in a better position, not only did they have a lot of money, but they also had a very strong backer in society.

Self-combing women", this group of women can be said to be the representative of the "unmarried family", and it appeared in the context of the feudal era. "Self-combing" is to coil up the hair by herself, because ancient women would tie up their hair after getting married, and people would know that the woman was married after seeing it.

It refers to the ancient Chinese feudal women who coiled their hair like a married woman, indicating their ambition not to marry for the rest of their lives.

The status of women in feudal society is too low, and they have no autonomy in anything, in order to be able to control their own lives, there are many people who choose not to marry for life to be self-combing women!

Self-combing refers to women who coil up their hair like a married woman to show that they will never marry and die celibately, and they are called pure women after death, which is a kind of ancient Chinese female culture.