What's so particular about the hairpins of ancient women?

Hairpin is an essential jewelry for Manchu women to comb all kinds of bun. Usually, Manchu women like to decorate their hair with big earlobes, small earlobes, beaded hairpins, sideburns hairpins, crested hairpins and faucet hairpins made of precious materials such as gold, silver, pearl jade, agate and coral.

Although there are many kinds of hair clips, the choice should be based on everyone's conditions and identity. For example, before the People's Pass, Fujin in Nurhachi and Fujin and Gege in Baylor used Dongzhu as the best material for making hair accessories. After 200 years, it was gradually replaced by Hepu Pearl Nanzhu.

The hair styles of extended materials are very rich, and the main changes are mostly concentrated in the first part of the hair. It has a variety of shapes, and also likes to use flowers, birds, fish, insects, birds and animals as the first shape of the hairpin. Common flower varieties include plum blossom, lotus flower, chrysanthemum flower, peach blossom, peony flower and hibiscus flower.

The names of the pins in Tianshui Iceberg Record in Ming Dynasty are "Golden Peach Blossom Top Pin", "Golden Plum Blossom Top Pin", "Jin Juhua Top Pin", "Golden Gemstone Top Pin", "Golden Box Inverted Lotus Pin" and "Golden Box Cat Eye Top Pin". Among them, Fengchai has the most and the most exquisite production.

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