Comments by "Joe Swanson" (@joeswanson733) on "China's Huawei Phone Clown Show Gets Even More Embarrassing!" video.

regarding the queue hair. it's not a han chinese haircut. it's a manchu hair style. now what "function" it served is debated but the manchus like the mongolians were horsemen and apparently by tying their hair into a queue and shaving the front would keep the hair out of their face while they were riding their horses... take it with a grain of salt. but hte more official explanation is Manchus and the Qing Emperor himself all wore the queue and shaved their foreheads, so that by following the queue order, Han Chinese would look like the Manchus and the Emperor. so there you have it. the han chinese didn't have a choice unless they wanted to be monks. it was a pain in the a** to maintain and of course it was cumbesome. if you were in physical labor jobs you had to basically tuck your queue around your neck to make sure it didn't snag on something.
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