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In ancient times, why did people call women "women"? What are the allusions?

As we all know, the word "women" is often used in women's pronouns, mostly used to describe women in the strong and heroes, such as women's heroes, "women's heroes" and so on, women is a kind of ancient women's fake bun, which is made of metal frames, framed with black silk to replace the hair, when used directly on the top of the head, and then ò hairpin hairpin.

After the derivation of women's pronouns. Women's scarf is a kind of jewelry used by the ancients, wide like a crown, towering conspicuous, lined with wire sets or thinned bamboo and wood pieces tied into a variety of novel styles, wrapped tightly outside a layer of colorful scarf and become.

To the Han Dynasty, only to become women's exclusive use. Women's scarf is not easy to save, later generations have long been abandoned. For a long time, people can know the word, but have never seen the physical shape. Sichuan Pengshan cliff tomb excavations unearthed a regal walking female figurines, head wearing jewelry such as a crown, covered in the forehead, strangled in the back of the head, the image is complete, this is the woman.

The ancients treated every kind of things around them, have their own unique views and insights, such as the matter of life and death, that people have souls after death, enough to go to another place to live. Therefore, it is necessary to bury them properly, which is also considered to draw a conclusion for a lifetime, and it is more respect for the deceased.

When Wei and Shu were at war, Zhuge Liang, as Shu's military adviser, issued several provocations to Wei's commander Sima Yi, but the others never moved at all. In order to provoke each other, Zhuge Liang specially sent a set of "women" to each other, did not expect Sima Yi did not fall for it. From that time onward, "women" has been a kind of female pronoun.

Scarf and woman both with the word scarf, referring to the relationship with the woman's cloth, but also are women's special items, so the ancient use of "women's" to call women. In ancient times, some aristocratic women would also wear the "Towel" during rituals or celebrations, because the workmanship and materials used for the Towel were very delicate.

Often in the ritual ceremonies to wear a kind of silk fabric or hair made of headdress, this scarf-type headdress called Turban, which is also decorated with some precious jewelry made of gold, jade and cui. Turban type and color has a variety of, such as with a long thin horse tail production called "shearing women"; with the black in red color production called "blue silk". Because these items are ancient women's noble decorations, people will call the heroine as "heroine", and later people "women" as a woman's honorific.