Jewelry from 400 years ago is surprisingly beautiful and stylish! The wisdom of our ancestors is admirable!

Women love jewelry this thing, almost from the most distant primitive tribal period has begun, in the end, "the heart of the love of beauty all have", jewelry can make us become more beautiful, this is the most important.

We now have more categories of jewelry, more sophisticated workmanship, and a variety of styles that are more and more personalized.

For example, many big names in jewelry like to take the simple route, and in the past two years popular vintage style.

Bao sister think, to say retro style, our traditional jade jewelry, do not need unnecessary decoration, is retro itself ah, the main thing is to be able to convey a kind of only Chinese people have the elegance and charm .

But you know what? But did you know that modern people like to be retro, but 400 years ago, the Qing Dynasty people were very trendy? The wisdom of the old ancestors is really admirable, don't think they only have tradition.

In fact, they were also moving with the times, absorbing all kinds of foreign cultures, and then translating them into their own, designing a lot of jewelry that combines Chinese and Western styles. It seems that as long as it's a classic, it will last!

Let's take a look at the earrings of the Qing Dynasty, in top-to-bottom order. The earrings of the Qing Dynasty people can be very elaborate, not only the material to use precious metals, jewelry and jade, and the court well-made .

In that era of no machine, jade jewelry polishing, gold and silver forging processing all rely on artificial. And in terms of wearing, there is " one ear, three clamps" rule.

The shape of the earrings of the Qing Dynasty, really more than we have now.

A variety of ring-shaped ear clippers, embellished tassel ring-shaped ear clippers, drop-shaped earrings have been designed, there are many inherited from the Ming Dynasty rows of rings, gourd-shaped earrings, lantern-shaped earrings and so on.

In order to further enrich the earrings, the Qing Dynasty people are a variety of fancy shapes are going to come out to fool around a bit, Xiangyun, happy characters, flowers and plants can be added to the design, in no way inferior to our current earrings.

In addition to these designs that show off creativity and ingenuity, the craftsmen who make the jewelry are also contributing their own skills, filigree, point cui, burnt blue a variety of high-class classic traditional crafts, but also all greeted up, it is really subtle.

Filigree inlay: Filigree inlay is one of the "Yanjing Eight Jedi", the process is very complicated, the whole process to use eight techniques.

This is just to make the basic shape, that is, the base, and then have to inlay a variety of gems, decorative, before being completed. But filigree inlay is because skillful craftsmanship , full of royal style, so it is particularly precious.

Dot Cui: Ancient people are using kingfisher feathers to do, will be very fine feathers arranged one by one up, very complex. But in order to protect the kingfisher, we don't use its feathers to make it today, and recommend using eco-friendly synthetic fibers instead.

Burnished blue: Burnished blue is also a traditional craft, is done in the base of the jewelry, filled with glaze powder, and then take it to the firing , a bit like firing porcelain, and so on the top of the glaze condensed, cooled, and became a gorgeous color glaze.

Qing Dynasty earrings are rich in materials, pearls, coral, amber, turquoise are frequent visitors.

Empress Dowager Cixi Extremely Love Dongzhu, in fact, and the origin of Dongzhu in the Northeast, where it is the birthplace of the Manchu people, the Qing dynasty Dongzhu only the emperor's mother, concubine above the consort and the Crown Consort can wear.

△ "Yi Yi Chuan" in the ladies wear the most, but also pearl earrings, and strictly adhering to the "three clamps on one ear" rule

In addition to the pearl and pearl, this head to toe all jade earrings are also a lot of white, delicate and oily white jade in the form of a curved ring, carved with a variety of auspicious patterns, the people are also lined with skin as cream. The earrings are made of white jade in the form of curved hoops, carved with various auspicious designs, which makes the person's skin look like solid fat.

Earrings such as the main event, of course, there is no shortage of the use of jade, look at these styles, even if now wear is also five praise!

However, the Qing dynasty small masters of earrings, not just these traditional types, in terms of material, but also widely used in the very avant-garde trend of colored gemstones, such as rubies and sapphires, tourmaline, and so on, are the small masters of the heart love.

△ delicate gold earrings, inlaid with dongzhu, pink tourmaline, green emerald, the color scheme is refreshing, and the composition of flowers, ingenious

△ There is also this kind of earrings to go on the simple route, do not indicate the age of you can guess that it is also an antique? These earrings also use a movable buckle, which is advanced

So you see, the vision of the ancestors is still very avant-garde , in the pursuit of beauty, absolutely not limited to the road.

Such aesthetics and the courage to break through, compared with our current trend of people pursuing individuality, is no less. At that time, colored gemstones gave the traditional jewelry craft, injected fresh vitality.

Speaking of ancient people's rings, you think of are not all like this, white jade, jadeite whole carving, or gold to create luxury high-profile? If you think so, but also really right ......

Qing Dynasty ring is indeed a lot of this, the emperors especially like a variety of jade trigger finger , not only to wear and used to play.

△ In fact, even if it is a trigger finger, the style is not the same, there is jade carving, there is also this kind of gold and silver as a base, outside the jade, like the left side of this pink tourmaline inlaid pearl style ~

△ Again inlaid with pink tourmaline, with the point of the green craft, complex and exquisite

However, the ring style of the Qing Dynasty is not quite this type, such as this slender style, is not like our modern simple and simple, but the ring style of the Qing Dynasty is not all this type, for example, this kind of modeling. Is it not very much like our modern minimalist?

△Precious stone inlays, not unlike modern gemstone rings

△There are also rows of crushed diamonds

△This is also a ring from the Qing Dynasty, which looks like a trip because it's so close to modern craftsmanship

Moral: Even more unexpectedly, there are also minimalist rings, and on the inside of the pair of nickel alloy rings, there are engravings of the words "the world's largest and most beautiful", which are engraved with the words "the world's largest and most beautiful". The inner wall of this pair of nickel alloy plain rings is also engraved with "中厥执允" and " I Love You Forget Me Not"! That's so romantic!

You wouldn't believe that this is the wedding ring of the Last Emperor Puyi and the Empress Wanrong!

In addition to the breakthroughs in style and design, we have to admire the aesthetic inclusiveness of our ancestors, there is really no shortage of eyes to find beauty.

In fact, jewelry was originally so, complexity has the beauty of complexity, simplicity has the beauty of simplicity , the focus is on the process to be fine, the old ancestors are also profoundly captured the essence of jewelry production.

We often mention the style of bracelet has a blessing bracelet, square bracelet, peace bracelet, princess bracelet, people in the Qing Dynasty Palace of the old collection of bracelets style is even more rich , such as the round bar bracelet, flat bracelet, flat bracelet, beaded bracelet and so on.

And they like to decorate the bracelet with a variety of gemstones and pearls, more admirable various carving patterns, complex and chiaroscuro.

Dragon and Phoenix:

Nine Dragons Playing with Pearls Series:

Jewelry Inlaid Models:

Allegory: The bracelets of the Qing Dynasty, the decorative theme is usually to the dragon and phoenix , but also bats and bats, and the main theme of the bracelet.

Ancient Chinese bracelets are usually dominated by dragons and phoenixes, but also bats, Buddha's hands, ten-thousand character patterns, etc., the words must be intentional, the intention must be auspicious, have the expectation of fortune, implying good fortune, longevity, health and tranquility.

Ancient hair ornaments we use today has been very little, at most wear a crown, wreaths, jewelry hairpin hair bands and so on.

But in the Qing Dynasty, hair on the hair of a variety of jewelry hair accessories is the biggest point of view, and different hairpin hairpin who can wear, often are symbolizes a different status status , is very concerned.

Hairpin: Although it is not commonly used today, but in the ancient costume TV series have not seen less.

In the Qing Dynasty, people had to rely on various hairpins to fix their hair, and most of their women needed to wear a flag head, so they needed hairpins in various shapes, which were not only practical, but also decorative.

All kinds of beautiful hairpins decorated in the cloudy hair, can naturally produce a euphemistic flavor to.

△The Qing dynasty loved the blue color of the cui, which was very gorgeous and bright, thus symbolizing the nobility of the royal family

△The Empress Dowager Cixi loved jade, and this hairpin is made of gold, and the head of the hairpin is made of jadeite sculpted into a hand holding a handle of Ruyi, which hangs six pearls and a blue crystal pendant, which is a combination of the beauty of the gold, cui, pearl, and crystal

< strong> Jade Tip: A variety of beautiful hair pins can naturally create a easy style. strong> Jade tip:

Who let hairpins are grow so beautiful, to say that forget a little bit is a little difficult. Now a lot of friends like ancient costumes, will also be hairpin re-use oh

Here are some simple hairpin pull long hair tutorials, together with the learning of vintage lady hair style it!

△ We are in the Qing dynasty drama common two hair style, the left is the flag head, the right this is the tin

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?, full tin, half tin three. Its inner tube is made of black velvet, satin, and then reinforced with silver or copper wire, and finally decorated with dots of emerald green, jewelry and other decorations on the outside, it became the way we see.

Bianfang: Manchu women's unique hairpin tool, Bianfang. In fact, the Qing dynasty drama is also very common, just a lot of friends are not clear exactly what it is, flat square is rectangular strip, mainly used to fixed flag head .

Now we use a picture to reveal, flat square is how to operate.

The flat squares that met women in the Qing dynasty varied in size, so sometimes we can see the ends sticking out, sometimes not.

Bianfang what materials to build are: gold, silver, coral, jadeite, white jade, tortoiseshell, Canaan incense ...... also have to use colored stones inlaid into auspicious patterns on the top, it is so elaborate.

In addition, the choice of materials should be differentiated according to the actual situation.

For example, if there is a funeral, daughter-in-law for the mourning time, flat square can not be gorgeous , usually to replace the simple silver or copper flat square, size is also small, usually only insert a 3 inch small flat square .