Empresses in Qing Dynasty, are their flags the same as those in TV series?

There are various descriptions of the decoration of concubines in the harem in the Qing Dynasty in various film and television dramas that reflect the game of harem in the Qing Dynasty, but there are different situations, and the flag head is one of the most obvious differences.

(A) wrong cognition

The flag head belongs to a kind of decoration for women in Qing Dynasty, which is similar to a hat. In all kinds of film and television dramas, no matter the empress dowager, empress, imperial concubine, ladies-in-waiting at all levels or the lowest-ranking ladies-in-waiting, they will wear flags. In fact, this is a very wrong understanding, because the flag head only became popular in the late Qing Dynasty. The predecessor of the Qing dynasty was the post-Jin regime, which was established by the Nuzhen nationality of Jianzhou, a fishing and hunting tribe in Northeast China. When the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, it gradually established its rule over the Central Plains.

Culturally, many elements of Central Plains civilization were incorporated into the costumes of the Qing Dynasty. Patterns, auxiliary decorations, etc. In Hanbok, mourning clothes and auspicious clothes are more perfect. Only the ornaments on women's heads are simple. In the early Qing dynasty, the harem concubines didn't even have any decorations on their heads, just simple dishes, which were completely different from all kinds of film and television dramas.

In fact, it was not until the last years of Kangxi that the head decoration began to appear in the portraits of concubines in the harem, and it showed an increasingly complicated situation. During the reign of Yongzheng and Qianlong, through the portraits handed down now, the headdresses of concubines and maids in the Qing Dynasty were gradually standardized. In order to regulate the use of headdresses, the Qing Code promulgated by Qianlong has clear regulations on headdresses of women of different grades. Until this period, there was no record about the flag head.

Therefore, it is a common-sense mistake to appear the flag head during the reign of Kang Yong in various film and television dramas. Is the flag head called Manchu? Pull your wings? The predecessor of the flag head is two heads. With the consolidation of the Qing regime, the life of aristocratic women began to be extravagant gradually, and there was no sign of hardship and simplicity in the early stage of entry. In order to wear more headdresses, during Daoguang and Xianfeng periods, women in the Qing Dynasty wore two combs. ?

② Manchu flag head

The second head is the usage of combing hair, which is fixed with a special flat hairpin and then divided into right and left hands. Because it is relatively fixed, you can wear all kinds of headdresses. Over time, there were more and more ladies' headdresses in the Qing Dynasty. At first, Emperor Xianfeng of the Qing Dynasty disliked the second master very much. He once reprimanded the concubines in the harem. In court, simplicity comes first. In my opinion, queens, concubines, nobles, Chang Chang, etc. Their costumes are too gorgeous to conform to Manchu rules. Is to follow the custom and make it permanent. ? However, after the death of Emperor Xianfeng, two little emperors, Tongzhi and Guangxu, came to power one after another, and the actual ruler behind them was Empress Dowager Cixi. During the reign of Tongzhi and Guangxu, the flag head began to take shape gradually and became the standard for women in the Qing Dynasty. It is Empress Dowager Cixi who really promotes the development of the flag head. During the middle period of Empress Dowager Cixi's hearing, her hair loss was serious due to her gradual aging. Everyone loves beauty, and Empress Dowager Cixi is no exception. At first, Empress Dowager Cixi wore a set of fake two heads (wood). Over time, this two-headed imitation began to become popular in the ladies circle of the Qing Dynasty. The style is more and more strange, bigger and wider, and gradually forms the flag head of the late Qing style.