What are the main features and forms of hair accessories in Song Dynasty?

Hair accessories in the Song Dynasty continued the Tang system, including hat, hairpin, comb and grate, and the hat system came to an end in the Song Dynasty. This kind of bun retains some forms of bun in Tang and Five Dynasties. It's just that style tends to show off.

Song dynasty hair accessories

Women wear tent hats when riding horses, that is, hanging nets or gauze around the mat hats to cover their faces. In addition, there are jewels and jade ornaments introduced into the mainland from Turpan in northwest China. Because it was very expensive, it was used in a small range, only for aristocratic women, but it was used until the Southern Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, pearls and jade were added to it. After this treatment, I walk more exquisitely and handsomely.

The jewelry industry developed rapidly in the Song Dynasty, and the government allocated hundreds of thousands of pieces of gold and silver for processing. At that time, jewelry was called "the head face", and there were many decorative means, such as inlaying, touching green, carving, burning blue and so on. , forming a complete production process. Heart-shaped silver bells, silver hairpins and gold pendants tied at the end of ribbons are all noble ornaments. The principle that civilians at that time should follow was "an inanimate woman should not think that jewelry and instruments used by metallurgical workers should be given to the government." The so-called Ming mother is known to have a title, which refers to concubines in the court below the queen and the mothers and wives of courtiers outside the court. It is recorded in the history of the Song Dynasty that this ban has no effect on Mingmu, because it protects Mingmu and these people will not be restricted.