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Nine-tailed phoenix hairpin who can use

The nine-tailed phoenix hairpin was only worn by ancient queens.

The phoenix hairpin has three tails, five tails, seven tails and nine tails. It is usually divided by rank, the queen is nine tails, and so on down the line. The phoenix hairpin is a kind of precious headdress for ancient women, which was initially ordered to be made by Emperor Qin Shihuang as the headdress of the courtiers. The golden hairpin is made of pinched silk and embedded beads, with the phoenix spreading its wings and swinging its tail, standing on top of the dolomite clouds, which is how the Empress's nine-tailed phoenix hairpin looks like.

Phoenix hairpin history

Phoenix hairpin is not only a kind of jewelry, it is also a kind of sentimental table objects. In ancient times, there is a custom between lovers or husband and wife to give a gift: the woman will be on the head of the phoenix 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 - late spring" in the "hairpin points, peach leaf crossing, smoke and willow dark Nanpu", that is, in the expression of this kind of love.