![]() ![]() In fact it was known as the Jinqian Shuwei (Gold coin rat tail, meaning that the pigtail should be thin like a rat's and thin enough to pass through the square hole in a coin). PS: the part about it looking like a horse's ass was even more preposterous because in the age that you claimed the Ming dynasty imposed that style on the Manchus, the pigtail was actually really different from the later Qing pigtail: the head was almost completely shaved, save the one bit in the back (instead of half and half), complete with a long, extremely thin pigtail. What I really love about these Tartar savages-Manchus or Mongols-is that they really love to pose as the victims at hands of the Hans when in reality they've always been the fascist, bloodthirsty barbarians that oppressed the latter. They clearly wore the pigtails on their own accord, nobody forced them to. The Hans had their own Confucian ideals that forbid any cutting of hair, while the Manchus didn't have that as their tradition. The Manchus traditionally wore that pigtail because it was deemed suitable for their nomadic, equestrian lifestyle: with the shaved head there is increased friction between the head and the helmet, preventing the helmet from slipping sideways or blocking the rider's view, plus a pigtail can help identify you from the enemy. To turn the insult back around when they took control of China, the Manchurians not only enforced the haircut upon the prisoners' of war from the last Han-ethnic dynasty (Ming Dynasty), they made it a law for every man in China to have that haircut or else they will get beheaded.Įxcuse me but that's really quite preposterous. The Machurians carried pride with their unfortunate haircut and accepted it into their culture. If you look at the haircut from the back, it is meant to look like a horse's but with it's hair running between the cheeks. In order to set the Manchu slaves apart from the Han Chinese, the government fashioned a "Horses' Ass" look for the slaves. Sometime before the Machus established the Qing dynasty and took over China (don't know if it was during the Mongol or the Ming Dynasty), many Manchurians were prisoners to the main Chinese race (the Han Chinese). He won five gold medals in the Chinese championships, his first when he was only 11. He started training at the Beijing wushu academy (wushu is China's national sport, largely a performance version of various martial art styles) at age eight. It should be coming out sometime in 2007.Īnyway, here's some stuff about the Manchu's pigtail haircut that I heard from Chinese people. 99+ Photos Jet Li born Li Lian Jie in Beijing, China. It is an American film about the Chinese during this time period in America. Wong Fei Hong lived from 1847 till 1924 the Qing Dynasty lasted from 1644 to 1911 and so Wong Fei Hung did live pretty much most of his life in the late Qing Dynasty except for the last 13 years of his life.įor those of you who like that haircut, the film Chinaman's Chance has that. I myself went to Huo yuan Jia's house (jet li plays in fearless) and visited the first Jing Wu school.īut next year I'll be going to Po Chi Lam! :D + His father is also a famous Martial Artist in China he was one of Southern China's famous "Ten Tigers of Guangdung".Īnd yes he was a doctor, 3 of my friends went to his house / hospital (Po Chi Lam) this summer. Do you know wong fei hung invented one of the most famous styles of traditional wushu? Most people seem to think that he didn't really do Gongfu at all, but I'm sure most of the information on that was destroyed in the Cultural Revolution." It is however up there with Jet Li's very best work in the genre, OUATIC & Fist of Legend for example, and if it is (sadly) true that it is to be his last period martial arts picture, it's a hell of a bang to go out on."He really was a doctor, that's one thing that was known for sure.but the actual history of him is not so clear. In dramatic terms, Fearless never reaches the heights of recent wuxia movies like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or Hero and so is unable to feel truly fulfilling as a great movie per se. ![]() It's obvious that this film is Li's love letter to his Wu Shu background and martial arts in general. While the story is a well used one (kung-fu bully comes to realise his skills can be used to educate rather than brutalise), it's a perfect structure on which to hang the film's many excellent confrontations. This is a canny move, as it pulls in the viewer via the blurring action before beginning to develop the film's narrative in the middle third. ![]() Director Ronny Yu crams more bone-jarring, well crafted fight scenes into the first forty minutes of this movie than most films can match in their entire runtime. ![]() Make no mistake about it, Fearless is the best straight-ahead martial arts film since Jackie Chan's seminal Drunken Master 2. ![]()
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