Thailand 🇹🇭 "JOOK" TRADITIONAL THAI CHILDREN'S HAIRSTYLE ทรงผมจุกของเด็กไทยโบราณ

🇹🇭 “Jook “ One of Traditional Thai Children’s Hairstyle!🧡

Jook or Top Knot

Traditional Thai hair styles are fantastic. Regrettably rarely seen today, some school children still wear them and we have seen a few young men wearing them. The world of 'same same' featureless international trends has sadly consigned this unique Thai style to historical photos.

In the past, Thai kids proudly wore a traditional hairstyle - a top knot popular as a symbol of childhood and spiritual. Thai people believe there's a spirit in their heads. The spirit is called 'kwan'; and say the spirit can be seen in the pulse beat of a child's head where their skull bones don't completely join. Kwan protects people from harm and illness. Kwan is delicate. It needs to be protected by hair. So when children got their first haircut, the hair which covered kwan is left. This lock of hair is called a topknot.

There are four kinds of topknots, 'jook', 'klae', 'pia' and 'ko'. Jook is the hair knot in the middle of the head. Klae is two locks of hair, one on the left and one on the right side of the head. Some children have only one klae, and some have two. Pia is a lock of hair on the top of the head like Jook, but it is a pigtail instead of a knot. Ko is a lock of hair which is simply knotted at the back of the head.

The way of choosing is interesting. First, the parents made four little dolls from clay. Each had a different kind of topknot. Then they let the child pick up one doll. The hairstyle of the chosen doll would be the hairstyle the child got!

Kids cut off their topknots when they grow up in a special topknot cutting ceremony called 'Gon Juk'. Boys cut it off at about 13 and girls at about 7,9 or 11.

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