Hair and Hair Accessories Folklore: Chinese Hair Culture: Chinese Hair Culture

Author: Ye Dabing
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Publish Date: 2000-03-01
Features: "Folklore of Hair and Hair Accessories" is one of the "Magpie Folklore" series. The magpie is a auspicious bird in the traditional folklore culture of the Chinese nation. Since ancient times, there has been the saying of "magpie brings good news," as mentioned in Wang Renyu's "The Lost Stories of the Kaiyuan and Tianbao Eras" from the Five Dynasties period, "When people in those times heard the sound of magpies, they considered it a sign of good fortune, hence the term 'magpie brings good news.'" Therefore, the bird is simply called "magpie," and its call is referred to as "magpie joy." However, folklore itself is a complex social and cultural phenomenon that is both good and bad. It is necessary to start with microscopic examination and research to uncover hidden truths while accumulating and introducing relevant knowledge. At the same time, it is essential to distinguish between good and bad, promote the positive and eliminate the negative, and correct customs. Everyone lives in various folklore activities and phenomena, and correcting customs should especially take specific, subtle, or often overlooked folklore as a sample. This is the very purpose and characteristic that this series strives to practice.