Blogpost 3: Beards in West and in East

Now we know about the History of Beards, we discovered that men who have beards in the past have in the struggle of caring for their beards. The men wearing it, faced a lot of challenges protecting their sign of mascunality.

There come in times that they have to cut off the beards and be taxed if they won't of get them killed. But as time goes on, the law was diminished and never been look upon again. These days, we don't have laws anymore of no beards allowed but regardless of religion there is a law that you shouldn't cut it down. In past, bearded men are more often to be respected and considered as a REAL MEN. Even they're young adults, they want to have a beard. As time goes by, what do people think about the bearded men now? Do you think that would it be the same foresee in the past as of now?

In China, as I've mentioned on my 1st Blog Post, that people in the past view men with beards are knowledgeable and old one. But as of now, it's really different from now. From the article of Charlie Cluster, What do Chinese People Think about Beards? A researched was made from the Baidu to searched for Chinese men with beards and took a picture of them and then posted these on Chinese Internet to see what would be the reactions of their fellow Chinese people?

1 out of 6 reactions that he mentioned in his article was only the positive reactions, so that means the others are negative reactions. According to the research, many men here can't grow their own beards and in fact, as you look their browser, many men are asking "How to grow a Beard?". Is that really possible for men to have difficulties on growing their own beard? Well, of course but we all knew that ancient chinese philosophers like Confucius and men have beards, right? As for my own observation, if you're going to consult the google and searched for ancient chinese men or watched chinese movies based on ancient past , you can't see young men have beards, only the adults have so this may be the inheritance of the ancient chinese to the new generation. And also, while I'm observing the pictures of different adult Chinese men, it looks like they have difficulties and they can only produce a thin and sparrow style of beard. so maybe these are one of the reasons why Chinese men can't grow beards.

It was also mentioned that the disappearance of the beard is a kind of historical evolution. "Chinese men will grow beards, if they like it and if not, they won't.

As for the men in England, Beards has been a big part of man's life. Even before in ancient times, men are already wearing a beard and for no reason, it became popular and also became a sign of masculinity.

In an article of Dr. Alun Withey, Beards, Moustaches and Facial Hair in History, in the time of Renaissance, having to be able to grow a beard represents the changed of a boy to a man, so it's like a process of adulthood and it's like a man's best friend. But in the 18th Century, something terrible happened. For no reason, men stopped wearing a beard and it became unpopular in the society. And because of unpopularity and people men don't want to have beards anymore, new shaving technologies become part of the time. The cast steel
was invented in the mid- eighteenth.

The razor makers sell different types of razors, razor straps to keep razors shiny and sharp, and face cream. Years past, beards took VENGEANCE. The british military started again wearing beards again. Because of this, men were encouraged to wear again the beards. As it goes on, they discovered many things about beards. Today, the bond of men and beard are getting stronger from time to time and also, don't you know that they even made a tournament of Beards, calling all the men wearing beards to compete in order to show the styles of their beards. But it is not just about winning but also meeting new people and bonding with their beards. Even there are ups and down, still, they're loyal of having their beards. But haven't you noticed that there are more men wearing beards in West countries than East countries. In west, men are more caring to their beards and they even give it a fashion while in east, they just let it grow. If you're gonna asked me, no offense guys but having a beard for west people is kind a good for their look and for east people, it's not kind a good for them. And speaking of styles, men in Europe are expert about it for this how they express their feelings in the form of art using their BEARDS>