One person was executed for refusing to shave the front but he had willingly braided the back of his hair. It was only later that westernized revolutionaries began to view the braid as backwards and advocated adopting short-haired western styles. Han rebels against the Qing like the Taiping retained their queue braids on the back but rebelled by growing hair on the front of their heads. This caused the Qing government to view shaving the front of the head as the primary sign of loyalty rather than wearing the braid on the back, which did not violate Han customs and traditional Han did not object to. Koxinga criticized the Qing hairstyle by referring to the shaven pate looking like a fly. Koxinga and his men objected to shaving when the Qing demanded they shave in exchange for recognizing Koxinga as a feudatory. The Qing demanded that Zheng Jing and his men on Taiwan shave to receive recognition as a fiefdom. A soldier during the Boxer Rebellion with queue and conical Asian hat His men and Ming prince Zhu Shugui fiercely objected to shaving. In 1644, Beijing was sacked by a coalition of rebel forces led by Li Zicheng, a minor Ming dynasty official turned leader of a peasant revolt. The Chongzhen Emperor committed suicide when the city fell, marking the official end of the Ming dynasty. The Han Chinese Ming general Wu Sangui and his army then defected to the Qing and allowed them through Shanhai pass. They then seized control of Beijing, overthrowing Li's short-lived Shun dynasty. Godley, "The End of the Queue:Hair as Symbol in Chinese History", 27, September 2011. Thus, removing the "queue" or "pigtail" became one of the better-known symbols of the fall of imperial rule, modernization, and political change. When the Qing dynasty was in danger of being toppled by revolutionaries, the Chinese in a gesture of defiance and practicality, severed their own tails. With the growth of Western ideas and influences in China, the development of the Chinese's national spirit started to have the determination to abandon the queue. The dynastic authority cannot serve as a focal point for national mobilization against the West, as the emperor was able to do in Japan in the same period. They had been forced to wear as a sign of submission to the Manchus's authority. As a symbol of revolution, Chinese males cut off the long braids or queues. The Western countries called the queue “the pigtail” disrespectfully. During the time of the Boxer Rebellion, the queue had become a symbol of shame to the Boxers and Chinese nationalists in the late 19th century. This idea was especially important when the Boxer Rebellion. For some days I had not shaved my head, and I allowed the hair to grow on my upper lip.” The Qing dynasty of the Manchus is seen as a “foreign” dynasty by the Chinese.
He recalled: “I cut off my cue which had been growing all my life. A nineteenth-century Britisher disabused readers: “the tail of a Chinaman is not a little tuft on the crown of his head, but is formed of hair suffered to grow luxuriantly in a mass, at least four inches in diameter.” From a Chinese point of view, it was their nation's humiliation in the Sino-Japanese War of 1895, which caused Sun Yat-sen and many of his associates to lose faith in the Qing dynasty. However, the queue was not only a representation of different dynasty identities in China, it was also a representation of racial issues later around the world. The queue was a symbol of Manchu identity. Later, the queue was forcefully introduced to Han Chinese and required to be worn by the male during the Qing dynasty. Queue or cue was a hairstyle worn by the Jurchen and Manchu people of Manchuria.
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