Unmarried women comb their maids' buns before they reach adulthood, that is, they braid the hair at the temples and the hair at the back of their heads and hang them down, and comb them into two small combs on their heads or beside their foreheads.

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In ancient times, underage or adult women who never got married tied their hair at the top and braided it into two buns, namely yam. Its shape is a left and a right, shaped like a branch, hence the name "Shantou", also known as "Ya". A bun is a solid bun. Generally, women mainly comb when they are young, and then change to maids when they are adults. On their wedding day, they will change their hair into a young woman's bun. If already

Those who are not married after marriageable age can only comb their hair, not their hair bun. Therefore, in ancient times, combing hair and needles were the signs of whether women were married or not. Du Fu's poem "Negative Pay" said: "Kuizhou has a virgin and a half flowers, and 450 have no husband's family. What's more, I haven't sold it since I got married, and I have hated it all my life. In the ground wind, men sit and women stand, and women enter and women go out. Nine times out of ten, the salary is negative, and the money sold must be paid. When you get old, you just hang down.

Neck "is a description of women in Kuizhou (now Fengjie) area of Sichuan. Because of years of war, the number of men has decreased, and they are still combing their hair until they are 40 or 50 years old.

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Ji Ya-Baidu encyclopedia