How did the beautiful women of all ancient China wear which jade jewelry?

Exquisite jade jewelry not only displays the overwhelming beauty of ancient Chinese women, but also reflects the cultural background and aesthetic orientation of an era.

There are many types of decorative jade jewelry for women in ancient China, including hairpins, hairclips, bracelets, jade comb backs, earrings, rings, neck ornaments and so on. Jade jewelry has always been a symbol of status and position, an exclusive item that only the nobility could use, with specifications far above those of gold and silver jewelry.

Cloud temples, phoenix hairpin, glistening, exquisite jade jewelry, not only displaying the ancient Chinese women's great beauty, but also reflecting the cultural background and aesthetic orientation of an era.

Covering the sideburns

Covering the sideburns is used on both sides of the bun, symmetrical use, popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Makeup, four sideburns should be decorated meticulously to be considered good, masking the sideburns is inserted upside down in the sideburns to bet on the hair, always one side of a symmetrical insertion wear.

White Jade Hollowed Out Bird and Flower Covered Sideburns

Ming - Flying Jade Covered Sideburns

Distraction

Golden filigree inlaid with jade inlaid with peony and luan bird motif distraction (unearthed from the tomb of King Liangzhuang of the Ming Dynasty in Zhongxiang, Hubei Province)

Jade Hairpin and Hairpin

Golden Peacock Shaped Hairpin in Capital Museum

Hairpin

Hairpin is a kind of jewelry which is formed by the cross combination of two strands of hairpins. Hairpin is a kind of jewelry made of two strands of hairpins in a cross combination. The main difference between the hairpin and the hairpin is that the hairpin is made into one strand and the hairpin is made into two strands. Hairpin is not only a kind of jewelry, it is also a kind of sentimental tokens.

Ancient lovers or husband and wife have a gift between the custom: the woman will head of the hairpin into two, half of the gift to each other, half of their own, to be reunited in the other day to see together.

Xin Qiji words "Zhu Yingtai near. In the song "Late Spring", "The Hairpin is divided into two, the Peach Leaf Ferry, the Smoke and the Willow Darken the South Pool", this is the expression of the separation of feelings.

Dot Cui hairpin in the Qing Dynasty:

Cui, that is, Cui Feather, Cui bird's feathers. Cui is the perfect combination of our traditional metal craft and feather craft.

First made of gold or gilded metal with different patterns of the base, and then the back of the kingfisher bright Turkish blue feathers carefully inlaid in the seat to make a variety of fine jewelry, aura, lifelike.

Ears?

Ear? is a more primitive ear jewelry, its wearing method is not very clear at present. Some people say that wearing ear? When the notch can be clamped to the ear, some people say you need to use a thin rope hanging in the ear eye. Some people say that the ancients wore rings before life, after death to wear? The actual is only a speculation.

Eastern Zhou ear?

Ear?

Ear? is an ornament worn on the earlobe, equivalent to earrings, earrings, earrings and so on. Wear ear? The custom, originated in the primitive society period. By the Han Dynasty, the ear? Popular nationwide,? Became a common ear jewelry for women at that time. In Jin Fu Xuan's "The Female Chapter - Yan Ge Xing", there is a record of "the head of a gold shaker, the ear tied to the bright moon?" The record.

Sui-Tang period, ear? has been gradually replaced by earrings. Only occasionally appear in literary works, such as the Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin's "spring rain" also made "jade? Reticence of the zazha how to reach, ten thousand miles of cloud Luo a goose fly". The reality has disappeared without a trace.

Forbidden Steps

Forbidden Steps is a kind of jewelry in ancient times. Jade pendants of different shapes were tied around the waist with a string of colored threads, initially used to hold down the hem of a skirt.

When wearing the walking steps, the sound emitted is slow and measured, and the weight is appropriate. If the rhythm is disorganized, it will be considered rude, and the ancients paid great attention to this. Jia Yi "new book - Rongjing" has the cloud: "the ancient saint king living with the law, moving with the article, the position of the executive precepts auxiliary, sounding jade to line."

The jade forbidden step unearthed in the tomb of King Liangzhuang in Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province, was formally named the Jade Leaf Group Pei

Step Shake

A kind of jewelry for women in ancient China. It is named after the fact that it moves and shakes as it walks.

The production of gold curved into a dragon and phoenix shape, which is decorated with beads and jade. Six Dynasties and down, the more complicated style, or ambush into birds and animals, flowers and branches, etc., crystal shine, and hairpin fine mixed, hairpin in the hair, the material is mainly gold, silver, jade, agate and so on.

Bai Juyi described Yang Guifei in the Song of Eternal Hatred with the words, "The golden steps on the temples of the clouds and the flowery face, and the hibiscus tent warms up for the spring night".