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A comment on Michael Puett’s book The Path draws on the insights of Chinese philosophers. Parent comment

Re:Michael Puett’s book The Path draws on the insights of Ch... by teddyh on Monday March 27, 2017 @09:24AM (#13967480)
In Chinese culture, long fingernails are a status symbol.
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Re:Michael Puett’s book The Path draws on the insights of Ch... by mirimir on Monday March 27, 2017 @05:31PM (#13971974)
Well, I've at times favored long fingernails. Especially, back in the day, thumb and first finger, for smoking stubs 'n' stuff.

And by the way, it was silly to characterize his advice about straightening one's mat as enigmatic. I mean, it's so obvious. But maybe I just didn't get the joke.

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Re:Michael Puett’s book The Path draws on the insights of Ch... by mark_edward on Monday March 27, 2017 @01:50PM (#13970027)
Well they were, fell out of fashion in early 20th on the collapse of the Qing. Another dramatic change around this time was the mass abandonment of the long queue of hair, long associated with Confucian values
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Re:Michael Puett’s book The Path draws on the insights of Ch... by nybblet on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:32PM (#13978656)
It's true that Confucian values talk about not self-injuring/damaging what parents gave to children --- their physical bodies etc. --- but pretty sure the abandonment of the long queue of hair on the collapse of the Qing was due to the fact it'd been imposed on the Han Chinese by the Manchus as a form of suppression.
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