What are the ornaments for women in ancient China

Based on the materials used to make jewelry, jewelry can be divided into two categories: precious metal jewelry and jewelry. The former mainly refers to jewelry made of gold (pure gold, K gold), platinum, silver, copper and so on. The latter is made of diamonds, rubies, emeralds and other natural gems and a variety of man-made gems faceted.

6?1 According to the purpose of jewelry, it can be divided into practical jewelry, artistic jewelry, commemorative jewelry, traditional jewelry and allegorical jewelry.

1. Utility jewelry: refers to jewelry with practical value, such as pins, buttons, tie clips, belt loops used to tie clothes, hair cards, hair bands, hair knots, hairpins, etc. used to bind hair.

2. Artistic jewelry: refers to the artistic value and aesthetic value of the dominant jewelry, its main role is for people to appreciate and collect. Generally from the hands of famous artists or designed for large-scale awards, exhibitions, popular style conference.

3. Commemorative jewelry: jewelry that commemorates certain events or a certain person, such as engagement rings, wedding rings, gold wedding rings, etc..

4. Traditional jewelry: jewelry that focuses on reflecting cultural connotations and interrelationships with other people, such as the styling characteristics of a certain period of history, marking the characteristics of the nation, the sect, the family, etc.

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5. Allegorical jewelry: jewelry with some kind of spiritual support. It is mainly through two ways to show, such as "heart" type or "love" type jewelry to symbolize their own sincerity of love; another way is to give the jewelry material some kind of meaning, such as the birthstone is used to indicate the month of people's birthdays, to express a variety of beautiful symbols.

6?1 According to the gender of the wearer, can be divided into female jewelry and male jewelry. Women's jewelry is characterized by beautiful design, exquisite workmanship, bright colors and changes. Its role is to make the wearer's femininity more fully expressed. Therefore, the design of women's jewelry is subject to very few limitations, just like women's clothing, and can be constantly updated. Today the world of jewelry is still dominated by women's jewelry. Men's jewelry is characterized by bright, bold lines and generous designs that highlight the characteristics and value of the jewelry material. This is because the motivation for men to wear jewelry is different from that of women. Women wear jewelry mainly for beautiful, while men want to highlight their personality. According to the survey, men wear jewelry motives are: ① symbolize the sense of achievement, including the display of rich; ② independent personality, showing masculinity; ③ to take some kind of symbolism; ④ imitation of their own worship of people.

6?1 According to the location of jewelry wear, can be divided into head jewelry, neck jewelry, chest and waist jewelry, hand and foot jewelry.

(1) head jewelry

6?1 refers to the ornaments worn on the head. Compared with other parts of the jewelry, the most decorative, and therefore mainly female jewelry, including hair accessories and earrings.

①Hair ornaments: including hairpins, hair clips, hair clips, hair sets, hair bands and so on. Hairpin and hair clip are important hair accessories for women in ancient China. Modern women usually use hair pins, hair clips, hair bands, net buckles and so on. All kinds of hair accessories, as long as they are worn properly, will add luster.

②Earrings: are worn on the earlobes of the ornaments, is one of the most important female ornaments to reflect the beauty of women. Through the correct use of earrings style, length and shape, to regulate people's vision, to achieve the purpose of beautifying the image.

The earrings currently on the market have two kinds of earrings: insertion ring and rolling ring. The former is only suitable for earlobes have been pierced wear, insert the ring from the ear holes straight into the past, the jewelry can be firmly fixed in the earlobes. The latter mainly use ear pliers clamped tightly fixed in the earlobe, its advantage is easy to dismantle.

Earring style varies, with pendants, square, triangular, diamond, round, oval, double twisted bar circle, large circle set small circle and other styles. Coupled with gold, silver, jewelry with a variety of materials appropriate, so that earrings are more competitive.

Currently in developed countries, most women have more than one pair of earrings. In going out or attending formal occasions, did not wear earrings, people will have yet to dress up the feeling. Many women are also happy to accept new styles of earrings when they receive gifts from men.

The history of earrings in China can be traced back to the Neolithic era. The earliest earrings were called jade penannulars, shaped like notched hoops and mostly made of jade. It is said that the ancients decorated with jade has two meanings: one is to show that there is decisiveness; the second is to use the jade penannular ring to express the meaning of severance. Earrings, on the other hand, appeared with the emergence of metallurgical technology. According to evidence, the earliest earrings made of bronze, after the Shang Dynasty appeared embedded with turquoise gold earrings, to the Ming Dynasty, earrings style has been quite a lot.

(2) neck jewelry

6?1 If you ask a woman what is the most beautiful place, most people will say that the woman's neck and chest is the most beautiful! The jewelry here is gloriously called "the queen of all ornaments". Today's wear neck jewelry, chest jewelry, such as collars, necklaces, corsages, brooches, etc., the production of materials are extremely rich, converging into a colorful world, dazzling.

6?1 necklace is one of the most widely worn neckwear, men and women, young and old, can be worn. Typical necklace consists of three parts: ① chain cable, is the basis of the necklace; ② clasp, located in the upper part of the chain cable, used to link or separate the chain cable; ③ pendant, located in the lower part of the chain cable, in a variety of shapes, such as the chicken heart type, the Goddess of Mercy, a variety of people like, animal statues are available.

6?1 broad necklace also includes a variety of strings worn on the neck. Each strand of jewelry by a varying number of ornaments grouped together. The shape of the ornaments can be spherical, square, diamond, oval, cylindrical, polygonal, and even irregular. The materials used as ornaments are also many, pearl, agate, crystal, jade, coral, amber, nephrite, turquoise, malachite, etc., are commonly used materials.

6?1 On the origin of the necklace, the research data can be summarized into two views. One believes that the evolution of the custom of "bride kidnapping", that the necklace originated in primitive society, matrilineal clans to patriarchal clans in the transition period. At that time, human survival gradually relied on hunting and planting, men were economically dominant, and the concept of private ownership began to emerge. This led to women falling from the core of the clan and becoming subordinate to men. In clan or tribal wars, the winner took the women of the other tribe as spoils of war. To prevent them from escaping, a chain or rope was often used to bind their necks and hands. Later, it gradually evolved into a custom in some places, that is, in the formal marriage of men and women, to "snatch" the woman to the man's place, and at the same time to metal ornaments on the woman's neck or hands, to show that the bondage. Today, robbing has long been eliminated, but to prevent women from escaping the chain has evolved into gold, silver, jewelry made of ornaments, become today's necklaces (collars) and bracelets (bracelets). Today, the young man to his fiancée when the gift of necklaces and bracelets, is to bolt her heart, so that the eternal loyalty to their own, very civilized and elegant.

6?1 Another view is that wearing a necklace was originally to show strength and bravery. Because of archaeological findings. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, Beijing Zhoukoudian "caveman" has been the use of string jewelry. At that time, the string jewelry is made of animal bones, animal teeth, shells and other strings, and dyed red with dye. In the fight with beasts, people found that the loss of bright red blood will lose their lives, but also y feel the beast's teeth, limbs and claws of the power. After winning the hunt, people ate the leftover animal bones, teeth, claws strung together, and dyed red, one to show their bravery and strength; secondly, also hope to absorb all the beast's strength and life force. Therefore, mankind has a spiritual life, also has a necklace.

(3) chest and waist jewelry

①Breast jewelry: the main body is a brooch. Brooches for women are mostly worn on the barge collar of suits or coats, or inserted in a part of the front chest of woolen sweaters, blouses and dresses. Wear a brooch, can often produce the effect of a finishing touch, especially when the design of the clothes is relatively simple or color is relatively plain, don't put a brightly colored brooch, will immediately make the whole set of decorations lively, and has a sense of movement.

The current popular brooches can be divided into two categories: large brooches and small brooches. The former length is generally more than 5cm, the pattern is more complex, most of the gems. The latter is generally about 2cm long, the pattern is also relatively simple. Most of the flowers or polygonal three-dimensional modeling, and some of the zodiac modeling.

② waist ornaments: mainly including jade pendants, belt hooks, belt ring, belt plate and other waist carrying things. Materials are generally precious metals with gemstones or jade mostly.

China's early waist ornaments are mainly jade, that is, the hanging system of the waist of jade ornaments. Jade pendant in ancient times is the aristocrat or official people must wear things. Because the Chinese use jade as a metaphor for virtue, and believe that jade embodies purity and elegance.

Modern people wear waist jewelry is mainly women. It is usually used to decorate the waistband of a skirt, for example, making a belt ring with jade, or setting one or several precious stones on a metal belt hook or belt ring. Nowadays, it is also common for some fashionable men to wear a jade pendant in the shape of an animal head or the like on their belts. If it matches well with the texture, style and color of the clothes, it can further enhance the effect desired by the wearer.

(4) hand and foot jewelry

6?1 That is, jewelry worn on the hands and feet, mainly bracelets, bracelets, rings, anklets and so on. The hand is the most easily noticed a part, so the hand jewelry styles in a variety of ways, worn on the rounded arms of women, slender fingers, to attract people's attention, add glory.

① bracelet: a set of ring-shaped jewelry on the wrist. According to the structure, generally can be divided into two kinds: one is a closed circle, to jade material as much; the second is to have a port or a number of chain pieces, to metal material mostly. According to the production of materials, can be divided into gold bracelets, silver bracelets, jade bracelets, gem-set bracelets and so on.

The role of the bracelet has two aspects: one is to show the identity, highlighting the personality; the second is to beautify the arm, bracelets are generally worn on the left hand, gem-set bracelets should be attached to the wrist; not set with gems, can be loosely worn on the wrist. Only pairs of bracelets can be worn on the left and right wrists at the same time.

② ring: is set on the finger ring-shaped decorations, formerly known as the finger ring. Is the most popular jewelry in the ornaments. The production of rings is very wide range of materials, gold, silver, platinum, jade, a variety of jewelry, etc. can be used to produce rings, and styles are constantly updated. Rings in addition to the finger to play a decorative role, mainly used as a token of affection. Europe and the United States to get married when an essential program, is the groom will wear the wedding ring on the bride's finger, to show their love for the bride.

6?1 Data show that China is about 4000 years ago, there have been people wearing rings. By the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was common for women to wear rings. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the folk have been the ring as a token of love, young men and women tend to give finger rings to express their love. To the Tang Dynasty, the ring as a token of love is more prevalent, and has continued to this day.

6?1 It is said that the ring originated in the ancient Chinese court. Women wore rings to remember things. The ring is a "forbidden", "stop" sign. At that time, the emperor had three palaces, six houses and seventy-two concubines. In the Harem, if a concubine was in the eyes of the Emperor, a eunuch would write down the date she accompanied the King and put a silver ring on her right hand as a sign. When a concubine is pregnant and informs the eunuch, she is given a gold ring to wear on her left hand as a sign of abstinence.

6?1 Later the ring became a token of marriage. in the 14th century, it became common for women in Europe to wear rings. Which finger to wear, there is also an agreed custom: the index finger indicates that you want to get married, that is, to propose; the middle finger indicates that you are in love; the ring finger indicates that you are engaged or married; the little finger indicates celibacy. The thumb is generally not worn with a ring. The ring should generally be worn on the left hand, which is also a custom accepted by countries around the world.