topknot (of hair)

 The topknot raises all the hair and turns it around from the top of the head to make it look like a thumb-sized pout, and fixes it with a topknot pin made of gold, silver, and copper, and wears a net around the forehead to prevent baby hairs from flowing down to the face. On the front forehead of Manggun, he had a good night's sleep so that the crown hair did not come down and wore a crown hat on top of it. The general public also tied towels instead of mangoes. The topknot is a symbol of an adult man, and before marriage, the man picks one strand from the back and hangs it long, and when he gets married or sets up an initiation, he turns on the topknot. In 1895, when the bobbed hair was issued and the topknot was banned, there was a strong backlash, but due to the new trend, the topknot disappeared and middle and high-collar hair became popular. However, even now, it can be seen that very few people trying to protect the old are wearing topknots. The way to make a topknot is to cut off the head of the top of the head and turn only the rest of the head, which is to release heat because it is difficult to dissipate heat when many heads are gathered at the top of the head. Wash your hair well, comb it several times, dry it neatly, and turn on a topknot. It is common to twist only one topknot, but people with a lot of hair sometimes twist it on both sides because it is called a twin topknot. The topknot was strictly discriminated between married and non-married people in traditional society, so even a child got married, he changed the topknot and was treated as an adult, and he/she used honorifics to those who were not married even if they were old. Even if the house is poor or old due to defects in physical conditions, those who could not marry always receive harsh comments from others, so to avoid this, they changed their topknots to look like they were already married, but this topknot was called dry topknot. It has been a long time since Koreans had a topknot, and in the record of B.C. 3C, the Samgukji, Wiman said, "I came with a topknot" when entering Joseon, and in the Jeungbo Literature Bibigo, it is recorded that "I taught the people of the country how to comb their hair in Joseon Dynasty. The appearance of a topknot can be seen in the ancient murals of Goguryeo (B.C.37~A.D.668), where you can see a small topknot and a nobleman wearing a crown hat and a large topknot without a crown. This topknot was practiced continuously from the Goryeo Dynasty to the Joseon Dynasty. In the Goryeo Dynasty's "Goryeo Do-gyeong", "Even the common people under the king did small activities." It is recorded as ", but Sokbal can be seen as explaining the topknot. During the Joseon Dynasty, you can see the topknots of all classes through various portraits and customs paintings.