What does tonsure mean?

In Buddhism, it means to shave the hair of a person who wants to become a monk and let him become a monk.

"The Record of Dharma" Volume III: "Magic listens to Dharma very much, and when he is crazy, he does not follow 3,000 disciples to find a home. Master shaved his head."

The Book of the Old Tang Dynasty Gao Zuji: "Lazy people are exempt from corvee, and they shave their heads and become monks."

Yuan? Master Wang? The West Chamber is wedge-shaped: "What's the situation? Old law book? It is also a monk who was shaved by my husband. "

Chapter 4 of Water Margin: "? Real elders? He called the first one, Na Wei, to discuss shaving this person. "

Feng zhi? "The Curtain" poem: "A shepherd boy shaved in the other monastery, and a little nun burned in buddhist nun."

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Both sides adopted tonsure and rose to a very high level in their respective Buddhist sects.