China ancient female hair accessories.

Hair accessories art, embellishing Chinese civilization

China ancient female hair accessories are an indispensable part of Chinese civilization. With the change of women's hairstyles in China, the traditional hairpins are drifting away. The hair ornaments and hairpins of ancient women in China have important historical, cultural and artistic values.

In the process of spreading, the ancient women's hairpins in China were constantly integrated with new techniques, styles and styles due to the changes of the times and regional differences. It is elegant and secular; It is both historical and modern.

These hairpins are full of the essence and aesthetic taste of China traditional culture. The reason why an ancient hair accessory that has gone far away can still infect us is that its vivid charm, exquisite skills and extensive contents are amazing, which has a good reference significance in the inheritance of national culture and constantly inspires and thinks for us.

The origin of China's ancient hair accessories comes from labor, keeping out the cold and concealing shame, pleasing to the eye, and also from imitation and induction. There are many kinds of hair accessories, such as hairpin, hairpin, comb, comb, gold cymbal, silver cymbal, crown, etc., among which the oldest is comb ornaments.

1. Comb: Comb is a comb tool with higher density than comb. It was originally used to remove hair scales.

Since human beings ended their unkempt life and began to pay attention to their faces and trim their hair, there has been a comb.

Comb, in ancient times, was a necessary hair accessory for human hands, especially for women, who could hardly comb it without their bodies. After a long time, it has formed the atmosphere of combing.

Tang Li and the poem "Qin Gong": "Luan Bi wins the full moon and people don't get drunk."

Wang Qi explained: "Grate, so decontamination, with bamboo as it, the image of Luan grate is Luan."

Second, hairpin: the long needle used by the ancients in China to fix the bun or hair crown, and later refers to the jewelry that women put into the bun.

Praise the real name "Zi" and say: "Zi, eight lords."

In ancient China, the way the Han people tied their hair, whether it was in a bun or wearing a crown, was fixed with hairpins.

When a woman reaches the age of 15, if she has been married, she will tie her hair in a bun, that is, tie her hair in a bun with a hairpin to show her adulthood. This is the "wedding ceremony". Hairpins are also often used as a token of love between men and women.

3. Hairpin: It is made by crossing two hairpins. It is also useful to pin the hat on the hair.

It evolved on the basis of hairpin. Hairpins are mostly used for distribution and bun, and they are mainly used for insertion and decoration.

The earliest human bamboo firewood used animal limbs, bones, jade, ivory and other materials to make hair ornaments. By the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the crown service system in China was initially established and gradually improved.

Notes on China in Ancient and Modern Times? "Chai Zi": "Chai Zi, the ancient food is covered. In Qin Mugong, it was made of ivory, and the king was awarded the honor of tortoise shell. The first emperor took gold and silver as the phoenix head, tortoise shell as the foot, and posthumous title as the phoenix hair. "

In China's classical poems, firewood is often used to describe the charm of women.

Su Shi has a saying: "When people are not sleeping, they are lying on pillows." The cold white of the silver hairpin on the black hair and the black hair on the sideburns are in harmony, and the visual effect is excellent;

There is also a vivid sentence in the text: "Cuichai is gold, and the butterfly dances on the hairpin", and the faint fiber shape seems within reach.

China's traditional aesthetics thinks that the hairpin is straight and lagging, and the posture is horizontal and oblique, so it is inserted obliquely to create a fragile, gentle and charming charm. China's ancient traditional aesthetics also infected and edified people today.

Hairpin is a tool for women's combing and hairdressing in ancient China, which embodies the individual characteristics of national culture and reflects the traditional aesthetic complex of China.

In ancient paintings and historical film and television works, you will see graceful women who sweep their eyebrows, apply rouge, comb their hair in a high bun and match honeysuckle. In the description of poems and songs, we can also imagine the colorful world of hair accessories, which seems to have always been the classic image of ancient ladies in China. Hair accessories are an extremely important part of their hairdressing, and the combed bun should be decorated with flowers and jewels.

Royal aristocratic women can use exotic materials to make hair accessories, and ordinary small families can only wear Chai Jing (a hairpin made of thorns). "Humble respect" is the humble title of China ancient men calling themselves wives.

Step shake: single-stranded needle is called "hairpin", double-stranded needle is called "hairpin", and there are beads on the head, which is called "step shake".

Originated in the pre-Qin era, it is a precious and gorgeous jade jewelry attached to the hairpin.

Generally, flowers are woven with gold and silver silk, decorated with jewelry, and some colorful pearls and jade hang down. With the trembling of footsteps, pearls and jade are also shaking.

Jin Xiangyu No.5 Walking Kiln is 28.3 cm high.

Walking wave is an ornament inserted by ancient women in China on one side of their temples, and it also has the function of fixing the bun.

Most of the women who are involved in the step shake are noble women, because the materials used in the step shake are noble, beautifully made and beautifully shaped, so the average woman does not have it.

The manufacturing process of step rocking is complex, which can fully reflect the level of gold and silver jewelry processing and manufacturing. At the same time, we can also infer the ideal image of women at that time.

"Shi Ming" says: "Step on it, there are beads hanging on your head, step on it and shake it." .

Walking with gold as the head, winding like cassia twig, hanging with beads, winding with various animal shapes, winning flowers with jade.

In the Han Dynasty, the walking platform was a phoenix with gold, owls under it, baskets in front of it and colorful jade hanging down, but the walking platform was teetering. Because there are hanging beads on the steps, it is beneficial to realize the dynamic beauty of the steps by decorating them with jade and jade.

In "The Flower Lady" in the Tang Dynasty, the woman who uncovered the tulle collar with her hands, her black hair is like a golden bird with wings spread, and she wants to tremble with people or the breeze. How vivid!

The ingenious modeling ideas and rich artistic imagination of folk craftsmen have added infinite amorous feelings to the headdresses of ancient women in China.

Verb (abbreviation for verb) Watson: That is, flowers win. A flower-like hair accessory, usually in the shape of flowers and plants, inserted in a bun or decorated on the forehead.

"Announce the name? Interpretation of jewelry: "Watson, Hua, like a flower of grass; Win, people describe it as waiting, a person wins, and it is decorated before it is covered. "

Hanshu? "Biography of Sima Xiangru": "The white head is Dai Sheng, and the point is Xi."

Tang Yan stone drum note; "Victory is also a woman's jewelry, and the Han Dynasty was called Watson."

In the Han Dynasty, Watson was pasted with gold leaves or jade bird hair to make it appear bright emerald green. This process is called sticking emeralds.

Flowers: Flower-like headdresses made of gold, silver, jade and shellfish.

Song Ming Ying Xing's Heavenly Creations? Jade: "where jade is broken, it is taken from flowers." "

Zhong Note: "Flower-shaped ornaments are made of precious things, such as gold, mother-of-pearl, precious stones, emeralds and jade."

Traditional cultural interest of hair accessories

As far as hairpins are concerned, hairpins have a variety of styles, which are used for other hairpins, and some hairpins are also made into ear spoons.

The beauty brought by the hairpin adds to the charm and elegance of women. More importantly, its graphic decoration reflects the traditional significance and art of China culture. There is a strong China cultural complex everywhere, permeated with traditional cultural interests.

Judging from the graphic ornamentation on the hairpins, the hairpins can be roughly divided into auspicious birds and animals, flowers and fruits, immortals, auspicious symbols and so on. Common flowers and fruits are peony, lotus, plum, pomegranate and peach.

For example, a "narcissus hairpin" in the Ming Dynasty, with the word "fairy" in its name, is an auspicious flower. People think that using it as an auspicious pattern can ward off evil spirits and bring good luck to families.

Auspicious birds and animals include dragons and phoenixes, cranes, deer and the Chinese zodiac.

For example, the "plum blossom and deer" hairpin is divided into five petals, which is a metaphor for "happiness, luck, longevity, happiness and wealth". Deer use the homonym of "Lu", which is homophonic with "Liu", and deer also homophones "Lu", which means "Dashun".

Auspicious symbols include Eight Auspiciouss, Eight Treasures, Chyi Chin calligraphy and painting, Four Treasures of the Study and various traditional geometric patterns.

The decoration of the silver hairpin not only shows exquisite patterns, but also reflects the profound cultural complex of the ancients. The patterns on these hairpin patterns use the combination of image symbols to convey the desire to pray for happiness and love.

For example, the pattern of "Magpies on Plums" consists of two magpies and several plum blossoms. There is a folk saying that "Magpies on Plums are beaming". The pattern of "Yuanyang playing lotus" is a metaphor for like-minded loving couples.

As far as emotions are concerned, these are all manifested as auspiciousness, wealth and so on, which is a universal thought of human beings based on the premise of survival.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, women's hair accessories realized the perfect combination of traditional exquisite craftsmanship and excellent traditional culture, and became the most exquisite hair accessories among folk hairpins in history. At that time, most of the hairpin circulated by the people flourished, with distinctive secular auspicious meanings. Show the meaning of China's traditional ideology and culture to the fullest.

Smart insects such as butterflies, dragonflies and cicadas can be active in women's hair, forming a unique landscape. There is a group of hair accessories made of Chinese cabbage and silver hair clips, which are vivid in shape and sophisticated in technology. Chinese cabbage is homophonic with "Baibao" and fruit is homophonic with "Brother", meaning to be a boy.

Another example is the word "A" next to the duck in the duck pattern, which is the first in the world. Therefore, a duck is used as a metaphor for the champion and.

Another example is the "Sanduo" silver hairpin, which refers to the combination of pomegranate, bergamot and peach. Pomegranate has many seeds, and the word "Buddha" of bergamot is homophonic "Fu", while peach is a metaphor for longevity. Therefore, "Sanduo" symbolizes many children and many blessings, and a long life.

All these carefully designed patterns of flowers and plants have different symbolic meanings, and most of them are the expectation of life reproduction and a bright future.

Flower patterns are also a common theme in Hairpin Phoenix. There are dozens of flowers headed by peony flowers. For example, the design of "Gua Tian" in "Silver Hairpin" is centered on Tian Zi and surrounded by harvested fruits and vegetables, revealing the profound theme that farmland is the source of harvest.

The themes of real-life characters are also wonderful. A picture showing the marriage between men and women is very grand. Two couples celebrated and danced in the courtyard, and the pavilions, stone fences, small bridges, flowing water and exotic flowers and plants in the scenery were all in sight. This poetic painting is very aesthetic.

There is also the A Qing Dynasty's "Cuju pattern" silver hairpin, which depicts the game scene of playing football in ancient military camps, which is also a proof that football originated in China.

The rich decorative themes of folk hairpins reflect the tastes and customs of ancient people's cultural life from different angles. Together, these patterns are like a folk picture scroll, giving the world unlimited imagination. Generally speaking, their style is realistic, and Gu Zhuo is flourishing, which shows the interest in traditional culture more directly than the royal aristocrats.

The epitome of traditional hierarchy.

In ancient China, women's hair ornaments were exquisite and gorgeous, and the headdress they wore had a great relationship with women's status. People of different identities wear different headdresses on different occasions.

Hairpins, as the most common hair accessories for women in ancient China, are closely related to all aspects of women's life. No matter which dynasty, the upper court nobles always pursued exquisiteness and splendor.

Take the women among the court nobles in the Tang Dynasty as an example. Hairpins in hair accessories are not only various, but also expensive, mainly made of gold, silver, pearls and jade. Moreover, the times of insertion and wearing are also very many, and the implementation of the hairpin dress system has pushed it to the extreme.

Women must wear fancy dresses on important occasions such as marriage, and women of different grades wear them differently.

There is a poem by Lu You: "It is vulgar for a folk woman to wear a hairpin, a woman to bear a silver hairpin, and a woman to hoe a crane for hair." . People express their simplest understanding of life and the most familiar life experience in the form of art, and express their yearning for an ideal life.