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Breaking tradition with a haircut. MI Qung, a Tibetan graduate now working in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, broke with the old tradition of wearing a long pigtail and cut her hair short when she enrolled as a college student five years ago. I think it is convenient to have bobbed hair when busy with school work. After graduation, I changed my hairstyle and short hair suits my features," Mi said. Juega, a 25-year-old male farmer, has just cut off the hair he wore for more than 20 years. As he left the hairdressing shop, he said joyously: "My hair has been freed." These days, it is common to meet in the street pretty Tibetan girls wearing bobbed or blonde hair or lively boys sporting long hair. They regard hairstyle as a sign of a person's character. However, this would not have been permitted decades ago in Tibet and was regarded as an offence to Tibetan Buddhism as local residents believed that the longer one's hair, the better prospects one had. In old Tibet, both women and men wore long hair braided into a big pigtail and wrapped on top of their heads. Their hair is not cut from the time they were born. To try to ensure good hair, some even gave their children the special name "Zhasang" which simply means "good hair." As the vast majority of Tibetans used to wash their hair at the most two or three times a year on account of busy work in the fields or on pastures, the region designated a special festival for hair-washing, which falls on the eve of the Tibetan New Year. But with much easier access to modern society, shorter hair has come into vogue. An increasing number of young men and women often dye their hair in various colours and follow the fashions of pop film stars and singers. I admire and envy today's girls wearing bobbed hair, which looks neat and tidy and is very easy for combing," said Zhaxi Zhoima, a 65-year-old woman. Benba, a noted research fellow at the Tibet Regional Academy of Social Sciences, referred the change of hairstyle to an alteration in the concept of Tibetans, noting that "it is a symbol that Tibet is embarking on the road to a civilised modern society." There are now over 500 beauty parlours lining the streets of Lhasa. - People's Daily
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