This is basic common sense blows my mind people are doing this to kids

I saw this before. Nevertheless, it's absolutely spot on correct.

The empirical China used a similar method with a hair-style consisting of a shaven head with a tuft of long braided hair known as a 'queue'. All males were to wear this to show their compliance and subjugation to the emperor. Violation of not wearing it was a death sentence. So successful was the queue in China, it was worn well into the later part of the 20th century.