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How to put up an ancient chignon (how to put up a chignon without hairspray)

Foreword

It has been said that "All people have the heart to love beauty." Beauty is so important for human beings, and even more so for women.

Whether it's an ancient woman or a modern girl, women spend a lot of time on dressing, maximizing the use of various methods to make themselves look more beautiful. And hair as a direct impact on the overall image of the key link, nature is not to be ignored. Women's short hair is the easiest to take care of, but long hair will have to spend more energy. In modern times, the woman platter hair, often use hairspray and other supplies to help fix, but there is no hairspray in ancient times, then ancient women with what platter hair?

First, the ancient women's disk hair tools

By the influence of traditional thinking, the ancient women never lost their hair, which caused them to have a head of extremely dense long hair, so the disk hair has also become an essential woman's "daily troubles". And the handy girl with hairpin, hairpin, pectus three disk hair tools can solve this problem. Here we look at the role of the three tools in the history of hair disk it.

Hairpin on the three thousand prosperous dream -- hairpin

But with the passage of time, the original maturity because of the style of simple crude, has been unable to meet the pursuit of people's beauty, so people began to maturity improvement

This is the first time that the hairpin has been used in the history of hair coiffure, and it has been developed into the hairpin.


But as time went on, the original hairpin was too simple and crude to satisfy people's pursuit of beauty, so people began to improve the hairpin.

The Houhan Book - the costume Zhi recorded: "gold dragon head with white beads, fish beard nitpick, a foot long, for the hairpin."

The main raw materials of the hairpin are metal, bone, jade and other things, and then add jewelry and other decorations on its finished product to make it look more beautiful and meet people's needs for beauty.

About the hairpin, there is a jade hairpin scratching the head of the allusion: Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty had a favorite consort Li, the later generations called Mrs. Li, who was the first posthumously appointed Empress of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the history of China. Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was very fond of her and often stayed in her palace.

History records: once, Han Wu Di came to visit Mrs. Li, suddenly scalp itching unbearable, remove Mrs. Li's head jade hairpin used to scratch the head. This allusion has become a good story, and people in later generations will think of the allusion to the jade hairpin to scratch their heads whenever the jade hairpin is mentioned, remembering the love story of an emperor and his beautiful wife a thousand years ago.

Most people's perception today is that hairpins have always been the exclusive jewelry of women, and never used by men. But in fact, in addition to the woman to do attire, hairpin as a wide range of hair products were also used by men in ancient times. Because most men in ancient times needed a crown, this is where the hairpin came into play - to hold the crown of the man's hair.

The hairpin worn by men was very different from the hairpin worn by women in terms of design, and the women's jade hairpin was more decorative in addition to fixing the hair, so the shape was mostly more delicate. The men's hairpin is more focused on practicality, so the hairpin decoration is relatively simple, and the length is longer than the women's hairpin.

Before the Qing Dynasty, men needed to bind their hair, so the use of hairpins was more common, but after the Qing Dynasty, because the Qing government stipulated that men must stay in the yin-yang head, the hair is tied into a braid with a hair rope, do not need to use hairpins, so hairpins have gradually developed into women's exclusivity.

Cloud bun phoenix hairpin - hairpin

Since the hairpin, in order to meet the demand for decorations, China's laborers invented the hairpin. Hairpin is a new type of headdress consisting of two strands of hairpins, made of beads and gold and silver made of various shapes of flower inlay, hairpin end is often tassel pendant to set off, the appearance is very beautiful, and therefore also sought after by the people.

The hairpin is mentioned in many classical texts, which shows its popularity and universality.

The hairpin was also used as a token by lovers and couples in ancient times. The specific practice is that the woman will head hairpin divided into two, men and women each take half, as a token of their love.

In Bai Juyi's Long Hate Song, it was mentioned that Emperor Tang Minghuang and Yang Guifei had similar practices.

There are many more allusions to the hairpin, and the importance of the hairpin in ancient times can be seen in general.

Comb for pectus - pectus

Said hairpin and hairpin, then continue to say to you the next fixed hair jewelry - pectus. Push is a comb and 篦 son of the general term, it and our comb nowadays with the same function of combing hair, but the modeling is very different from the comb used nowadays.

Pectus shape can be divided into two parts to introduce, a complete pectus upper part is a semicircle, the lower part of the comb and comb teeth are the same, but the distribution is more dense, more numerous. Pectus appeared earlier, so pectus can be said to have a very strong historical flavor.

At that time, due to the production technology is relatively backward, decorative items are scarce, so the pectus in addition to being used by the then ancient women to comb hair, but also be used as a decorative bundle in the back of the head. This hairstyle is not as delicate as the hairpin and hairpin comb, but there is a special beauty, so it is also a good modeling.

Pectus was widely used at that time, but due to the gradual increase in the level of production, production technology continues to improve, people were able to invent a more sophisticated hair accessories, compared to other beautiful and good-looking jewelry, pectus is a bit simple, and therefore gradually eliminated by mankind, pectus gradually disappeared in our eyes.

Nowadays, we comb our hair with improved combs, and it is difficult to use the pectus as an ornament, which causes us to be very difficult to see the pectus around this traditional craft of our country. But with the prevalence of the concept of preserving traditional culture, I believe that the pectus as a very historical tool will prevail again.

Hairpin, hairpin, pectus three kinds of hair tools in China's ancient times is very wide range of uses, the most common is to use them to disk hair. But in addition to being used to fix the hair, because of its own beautiful appearance, hairpin hairpin and other jewelry is also often used to decorate the hair. Whenever major festivals and other occasions, people will wear their own carefully prepared hairpin hairpin and other jewelry in the hair, coupled with exquisite makeup, a perfect holiday so spent.

Second, the ancient version of the hair gel

As we all know, hair gel produced in foreign countries, but in fact, in our country in ancient times, the working people also invented a special kind of hair gel, which is prevalent in our country in ancient times of plancha water. In addition to using hairpins, hairpins, pectus and other craft products, women in ancient times would also use shavings of water to fix the hair, so that it is not easy to loose.

Particle water is the mucus formed by soaking the flowers of elm wood in hot water, which has a styling effect. When combing your hair, dip your hand in some of the shaving water and apply it to your head to give it a good hold.

Shaved water is easy to do, the price is appropriate, so become the ancient women's coiffure indispensable props fixed hair. And because the production process using natural raw materials, without adding any chemical ingredients, shavings water is also a natural non-staining products, coated in the head can not only fix the hair style, but also increase the luster of the hair, so that the hair emits a light elm aroma.

Shaved water is extremely popular in ancient times, even the Empress Dowager Cixi is a loyal fan of it, daily hair care to add some shaved water, which also allows her hair all year round to maintain a smooth and silky state.

Third, the Western hair gel began to introduce

hairpin, hairpin, pectus, the impact of water on women's coiffure through the history of China for thousands of years, but to the late Qing Dynasty, a large influx of European goods into China, these traditional crafts were gradually replaced . Among them, the hairpin, hairpin, pectus, and the disappearance of the water flakes played an important role in promoting the disappearance of the European invention of hairspray.

Hairspray was invented by Europeans in the 1920s, and in the 1940s, American capitalists put hairspray into bottles for export, so hairspray was introduced to China. Due to the social environment at the time, only a few people could afford to buy hairspray when it was first introduced to China, and Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and Wanrong, the Empress of the Qing Dynasty, both wore suits coated with hairspray at the time.

But later, as more and more European goods were imported, hairspray gradually became more commonplace, and ordinary people would buy hairspray to fix their hair.

Hair gel because of its own convenient and cheap characteristics by the people widely loved, coupled with the prevalence of foreign fashion, hair gel to replace the traditional hairpin, hairpin, pectus and shaving water, so that the use of these traditional hair tools in China is no longer as common as in the late Qing Dynasty before.

Although the emergence of Western hair gel gradually replaced China's traditional hair tools, but its modern hair modification also played a very big role, and with the development of the times, Western hair gel is also constantly optimized and improved. Today's Western hairspray is more convenient to use, and the modification of people's hairstyle is also more perfect. Most of the Western hairsprays on the market have a very good practical value, which, admittedly, is not the case with traditional coiffure products.

Summary

In fact, in my opinion, any culture has its own advantages, we can not because of it a small shortcomings on the resolutely negative, to see their flash of light, for hairpin hairpin and other traditional coiffure tools and hairspray and other new coiffure tools, we can not be too sure or too much denial, to take the best complementary to the shortcomings is the best choice.

References:

The Book of the Later Han Dynasty

Miscellaneous Records of the Western Capital

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