Women's Hair Style in Wei Jin and North and South Dynasties Costumes

Women's hair style in the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties was different from that of the previous generation. The popular bun of the Wei and Jin dynasties was a kind of fake bun, which was specially described in Jin Chenggong's "Inscription on the Shielded Bun", with gold ornaments on the bun, and each of them was strictly regulated, and was not allowed to be used by women who were not destined to have their hair done up. Ordinary women in addition to their hair pulled into a variety of styles, there are also wearing a fake bun. However, this kind of fake bun is more casual, the decoration on the bun is not as complicated as the hidden bun, sometimes called "slow sideburns pouring bun". Many other women imitated the customs of the ethnic minorities in the western region, and pulled their hair into a single or double-ringed bun, towering over the top of their hair. There are also those who wear a bun or spiral bun. In the Southern Dynasties, due to the influence of Buddhism, women more in the top of the hair in the middle of the split bun, made of upward vertical ring style, called "flying bun", first popular in the palace, and then popularized in the folk. In the chignon and then decorated with hairpins, flower inlays, hairpin tweezers, or inserted with flowers and so on.

Gu Kaizhi's "Female Historian", colorful silk, based on the Western Jin Dynasty literati Zhang Hua's "Female Historian". The scroll*** has nine sections, of which this is one, and shows a noblewoman seated on the ground, with an attendant girl cutting her hair and combing her make-up. The maid (standing) wears her hair in a high bun, with jewelry on top and a tail hanging down from the back of the bun. This type of hair style already appeared as early as the Han Dynasty, and after the Wei and Jin Dynasties, it became popular again and became the main hairstyle for the majority of women. It is also depicted in another scroll by Gu Kaizhi, "The Picture of the Ladies" (Gu Kaizhi's "Women's History"). (Part of Gu Kaizhi's "Women's History").