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Hi, thanks for the question, and sorry for taking ages to reply!

The half-up, half-down hairstyle that you often see on both male & female characters in Chinese guzhuang (period costume) dramas is not based on historical hairstyles. Rather, it is a fairly recent styling convention, most likely originating from late 20th century wuxia TV shows from Hong Kong (x). Over time the hairstyle has become normalized and commonplace in Chinese costume dramas, especially in the wuxia and xianxia genres (because these genres are not necessarily aiming for historical accuracy in the first place).

Below, from left to right: Wang Hedi in Love Between Fairy and Devil, Deng Wei in Miss the Dragon, Xiao Zhan in The Untamed, Gong Jun in Word of Honor: 

As @niteshade925 explains in this post, for male characters, the main idea of the hairstyle is to make the character look attractive, and also in some shows/context, to hint at the character’s personality, as in maybe they do not adhere to traditional customs and are free-spirited/spontaneous. For female characters, it is usually just a regular hairstyle without deeper meaning :P

For more information on this half-up half-down hairstyle, and historical hairstyles in general, please see the following posts:

The historical accuracy of half-up half-down hairstyles

The historical accuracy of ponytails

Historical hairstyles for men

"𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲: '𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐛𝐞 𝟖𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝.' 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐬𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭? 𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝟖𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬! 𝐈 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐈'𝐦 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧' 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝! 𝐈'𝐦 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧. 𝐈'𝐦 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐬𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞. 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐰, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐜𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐈 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧' 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮. 𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭." -𝐃𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐨𝐧 🦋Wishing a very happy 80th birthday to beloved music legend, song-writer, actress, author, literacy advocate, lgbtq+ ally and international treasure Dolly Parton, born on January 19th, 1946 in a tiny one-room log cabin built on the banks of the Little Pigeon River in Pittman Center, Tennessee. Dolly's Imagination Library, founded in 1995, has given over 300,000,000 free books to children in America, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland, with Dolly stating: "When I was growing up in the hills of East Tennessee, I knew my dreams would come true. I know there are children in your community with their own dreams. The seeds of these dreams are often found in books, and the seeds you help plant in your community can grow across the world."🦋

go to About:config find media.mediasource.enabled and toggle it to false find media.cache_readahead_limit and change it to 9999 find media.cache_resume_threshold and change it to 9999

additionally if you'd prefer mp4 to webm

also in about:config, find: media.encoder.webm.enabled media.mediasource.webm.audio.enabled media.mediasource.webm.enabled media.webm.enabled and toggle them all to false

note! this will limit video to 1080p

The reason I love JoeyxRachel (they really need a ship name btw) more than R*ssxRachel is because of three reasons:

He takes no for an answer. When she doesn’t like the idea of having sex with him because it makes her feel awkward, Joey’s disappointed, but stops his actions and asks if she’s feeling okay, and even holds her in his arms. He never asks her again, but does gently tease her about it because it’s Joey we’re talking about.

He puts for her needs and wants first. When she’s wanting to go out with someone, but not as an actual date, Joey takes her out to this nice restaurant and it makes her feel better. He also immediately gets up and takes her to the ER when she gets scared about the Braxton Hicks contractions just to make sure everything’s okay, and was worried sick as he waited out in the hall.