Blogpost 2: The History of Beards

I know that you already saw a man with his beard and this man always took care of his beard. It is like his beard is part of of his life and can't lived without it. But don't you know that in the past, growing a manly facial hair could get you taxed, be a sign of rebellion against the church and worst, could get you killed. Woooooow.........Life is hard.

According to an article entitled The Amazing History of Beards (INFOGRAPHIC) written by Greg Voakes, that in ancient civilization, around 345 BC, Alexander the great ordered his soldiers that they could not have beards. Why?.....................................Because he has a fear, that in times of war, that their enemies might used the beard as an advantage in close combat by the terms of pulling it. At first, you'll laughed at Alexander for thinking such thing but as you further think about it, he really got a point. It's like two girls fighting by means of pulling their crowning glory in war. It's kind a weird stuff seeing a two men pulling their beard. Weird right?! And in the part of an article, The Troubled History of Beards by Daniel Lew, as for the English Clergymen, they're somehow lucky. Priest already kept their faces clear-shaven as a sign of their celibacy, a state of not being married. And as for the protestant priest, the way of their protesting is that they would grow their beard. In this case, the bigger the beard is; the better protesting it has. But a well timing of Elizabeth I and in the time of Henry VIII, whom they've taxed those men who'll grow beards.

As we go further along in this article, you'll asked a question, on how our ancestors removed their facial hair, that in the past, they are being threatened to be killed and taxed if they continued in Pogonotrophy?

Well, we all know that removing manly facial hair is a big lost for those men in the past and by means of pulling it manually is really painful on the face. In 2nd article, the Archaeologists found pieces of evidence that in as early as 100, 000 BC. that men started to shave off their beard but the first razors that were discovered by Archaeologists, date back to 30, 000 BC. So that means........................men are more in to pulling their beards off. OUCH!! A man who wanted to have a bare face, would used two sea shells to grip his beard; then PULL!! and by just seeing a guy deeply in pain, screaming, by doing this method makes you have goosebumps.

I never knew that in the past, men are having a hard time to keep their precious beards and luckily, we're not born in that time and we're freely to grow our beards in the way we like but not for me for I only have right is whisker so I have to wait for my whisker to grow into a beard.