@@saosound4140 firstly, sorry for using English, my Japanese is horrible and I can only barely read. in my view, I suppose the queue(braid) of the Qing dynasty, to some extent(is critically considered by both modern Chinese historiography and west), was a symbol of being ancient, backward, and unprogressive ---of course, out of self-preservation, I need to clarify that I'm not speaking personally or being discriminatory; it's simply a fact that, influenced by the international situation at the time, people generally held this view. China was once one of the most influential countries in the world for over thousand years but since Qing dynasty, it completely declined and gradually became an underdeveloped, ignorant third-world country. as a result, the queue of the Qing people developed into a stereotype. however, this does not mean I'm being discriminatory, just generally speaking whatever for now or who were then, they think in this way. therefore, for him, as the emperor, to cut his hair would have been considered an astonishing act against tradition and societal norms(if it were in the old time), and it could have been seen as the behavior of a madman. however, in the era he lived in, this act symbolized his pursuit of freedom, liberty, and new world.
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