When did it become popular for ancient Chinese women to wear earrings?

The earrings have a long history. From ancient times to the present, from divination to guardianship to tend to disease and evil, from the pursuit of wisdom to the pursuit of fashion, from the control of lowly slaves to the new wave of women and fashionable men, earrings through the ages, across time and space, and constantly send out the eternal glitter. "The origin of the earrings", there are mainly the following claims: 1, wearing earrings and ancient superstitions related to the legend of the devil and other demonic spirits always want to enter the human body, take over the human body, so the human body may be in and out of all the holes and orifices must be guarded in particular. Earrings are lucky charms worn on the ears. 2. In ancient China, wearing earrings used to be a sign of "inferiority". The Ming dynasty "stay in the green journal" book said: "women wear ears, with earrings, cover since ancient times, is the thing of the lowly." It turns out that the original significance of piercing the ears was not for decoration, but to serve as a warning. It is a custom of the brotherhood of peoples, because some women are too active, not willing to stay in the guard, some people have come up with a hole in the woman's ear, and hanging on the ear beads, in order to remind them to live a disciplined life, act cautiously. Later, it gradually became a Han Chinese custom. However, at that time, women were not as enthusiastic about piercing their ears as women are today, but were forced to do so. To the Song and Ming Dynasties, due to the rise of ritualistic ideas, women's ear-piercing style, unprecedented popularity; not to mention the general women, even the queen, concubines are no exception. Over time, wearing ears and rings will form a trend. 3, in some tribes of the world, long earlobes is a symbol of beauty. Girls begin to wear ear piercing since childhood, with age, with more and more heavy earrings. The longer the earlobes are stretched, the longer the earlobes are stretched. If the earlobe can not withstand the heavy burden of a long period of time and unfortunately break, all her beauty also followed by a sudden broken. For men, the ear is the center of wisdom, smart people must have big ears, heavy earrings will pull the earlobe down so that it becomes longer, relative people also become more intelligent. The first men to wear earrings were sailors. They believed that pierced ears would protect them from drowning. Later on, men wearing earrings were not just sailors, as it was considered a sign of homosexuality, and a number of coded phrases were created, such as wearing an earring in the left ear means homosexual, and wearing an earring in the right ear means bisexual, and so on. With the popularity of rock singers, men wearing earrings have completely lost their sexual significance, but most of them are still men at the bottom of the social ladder, or hanging safety razor blades, light bulbs, and so on in their ear holes, "earrings are not shocking". 5, and now, the upper class is gradually accepting men to wear earrings, such as super professional athletes in the signing of high-paying contracts, but also openly in the earlobes decorated with a bright diamond. This seems to confirm that men have the right to dress up as much as women.