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Hi, great question!

There are so many different types of male hats and headwear throughout Chinese history, it would be impossible for me to list them all. A brief intro:

- The typical types of male headwear are called Jin (巾) for soft caps, Mao (帽) for stiff hats, and Guan (冠) for formal headdresses.

- The term guan is traditionally an umbrella term encompassing all forms of headgear that cover the wearer’s hair, and is also commonly called Shoufu (首服/clothing of the head). The guan makes use of a hairpin which goes across a topknot of hair to stabilize itself, and is coupled with a sash tied underneath the chin.

- Jin are caps of civilian usage. Head-cloths wrapping the head and topknot fall into the jin category. For example, one type of jin is the Wangjin (网巾/net cap), which became popular during the Ming Dynasty:

- Officials and academics have a separate set of hats, typically the Putou (幞頭), Wushamao (烏紗帽), Si-fang pingding jin (四方平定巾; or simply, Fangjin: 方巾), and Zhuangzi jin (莊子巾).

Here are three great resources that describe male hair/head accessories:

1. Wikipedia’s Hanfu article has a section on male headwear, complete with an informative list and pictures.

2. Headwear: Guan, Jin, Accessories is a nice introduction to male headwear, which leads to…

3. A list of Guan, Jin, and other headwear, an article from the same source as above, which contains detailed descriptions of male headwear.

Hi, thanks for the question!

Historically, Chinese men wore their hair in a single bun on top of their head, not in a ponytail. Ponytails were not a thing for men (or women for that matter) in ancient & imperial China. Perhaps the “ponytail” you see mentioned in novels is actually referring to the bun? 

Below - examples of historically accurate men’s bun hairstyles in Chinese dramas: 

Another possibility is that they are indeed referring to a standard ponytail. Many Chinese dramas & novels with “historical” settings (especially wuxia genre) do depict men in ponytails. This isn’t based on history, but is rather a stylistic convention that’s become accepted and common over time (mainly because it looks cool ¯\_(ツ)_/¯).

Below - examples of historically inaccurate men’s ponytail hairstyles in Chinese dramas (the bangs aren’t historically accurate either...):

For more information, please check out the following posts:

Historical Chinese men’s hairstyles

Tutorials on how to create the bun

Historical Chinese men’s hair accessories

Guan (headdress worn over bun) - 1 & 2

For all my posts on traditional Chinese men’s hairstyles & headwear, please check out my men’s hairstyles and men's headwear tags.

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