Street industry in Qing-Dynasty China, ~1898
1mon 5d ago by piefed.social/u/PugJesus in historyphotos@piefed.social from upload.wikimedia.org
any idea what is happening? on the right side a person is either measuring something around head, or some other procedure (but does not seem like a barber), and also there is some registeration or something going on in the middle, so is this outside some court (as in royality) or like a hospital?
Fortune telling in the middle, I believe.
The right figure I think is a barber, but there were laws requiring a specific hairstyle that involves shaving of much of the head so the barber may be making sure the front chrome-dome treatment isn't patchy.
til. I knew of the hairstyle, but did not know it was a law. I probably guessed that it is something that royality does, and rest of people just try to mimic it, but never quite thought of why everyone would do that.