In the Qing period, opposition began to emerge, although it was both belated and weak. the Qing ruling nobility, who were ethnically Manchu, attempted to prohibit the custom among the conquered Han Chinese. In 1645, the first Shunzhi emperor mandated that foot binding be banned, but his successor, the Kangxi emperor, revoked the ban, apparently deciding that the practice was too firmly rooted in custom to be amenable to imperial dissolution. This thing, it was once know as "men surrender, the women didn't surrender". The defeat of the Ming dynasty, Qing dynasty enacted a law about men have to shave hair, under the force of high pressure, the Han man finally had to yield to perform. So the men shave hair, is considered a symbol of yield to the Qing court. At the same time, women's foot-binding was also the Qing court ordered a halt. However, the women's foot binding did not stop, more and more people bound their feet, even the manchu women started bound their feet. This is the sentence "men surrender, the women didn't surrender" come from.