Why did Song Dynasty prisoners wear pomegranate hairpins before serving their sentences or being released from prison? What is the reason for pinning pomegranate flowers?

Before and after the fifties, when there were festivals, or when newlyweds got married, women's headdresses were more elaborate. Often the woman's head to insert hairpins flowers. Hairpin flowers have velvet flowers, bead flowers, silk flowers and other varieties, hairpin in the bun, sideburns, there are also full hairpin flowers. For young girls, hairpins are placed on the buns and temples, and there are also hairpins for the whole head.

After the Han Dynasty, the custom of pinning flowers has lasted for a long time among women, and most of the flowers pinned are seasonal flowers. For example: Cornelian cherry: Liang Jian... In general, spring hairpin peony, peony; summer hairpin pomegranate, jasmine; fall hairpin chrysanthemum, okra and so on. There are also some hairpins with palace flowers, which are made of Luo, silk, and grass and other materials. Seasons are different, the hairpin flowers are different

Song and Yuan period of Arab women living in China's clothing, Song Zhuangchuo "chicken coercion editorial" contained: "Guangzhou Persian women, around the ear are wearing six belt ring, there are more than 20 pieces." Yuan Hui Hui people, like to wear head canopy, head wrap or cover the head, women use the head sleeve as a cover cloth, like to use beads and emeralds to decorate, and the medieval Arabs decorated no different. There is also no record of hairpins. Saying that the insect seeks Po women hairpin flower round is the Song and Yuan period of the Arabs left behind the custom is also unconvincing.

In fact, the flower hairpin as a folkloric phenomenon, as early as in the Han Dynasty has appeared. A female figurine unearthed at the Shanxi Han Tomb in Yangzi, Chengdu, Sichuan province, has a large chrysanthemum inserted in the middle of the bun, with several small flowers attached to the chrysanthemum on both sides.

After the Han Dynasty, the custom of hairpinning has persisted among women, and most of the hairpin flowers are seasonal flowers. For example:

Cornelian cherry: Liang Jianwendi (Cornelian cherry) poem: "Cornelian cherry is born in the narrow slant, and bears the seed of the summer imperial flower. When I meet the delicate hand picking, indiscriminately reflecting the lead. Miscellaneous and hairpins inserted, occasionally by the sideburns fine oblique."

Rosebuds: (Liang) Liu Jiu's poem "Watching Beauty Picking Rosebuds": "The hairpin is inserted by the firm, and it is not suitable everywhere." Plum Blossom: (Liang) Bao Quan's poem "Plum Blossom": "Poor plums under the steps, fluttering back by the wind. The curtains are whisked by the front cover, and the window and comb table are haunted by the plum blossoms. At first, it goes with the slender hand, but it also comes with the maid." Pomegranate: Poem by Emperor Jianwen of Liang (and a man crossing the water): "The new head of the pomegranate, the train of the pomegranate, is a pleasure to travel. In front of my belt, I knotted herbs, and on the side of my hair, I inserted pomegranates." Apricot blossom: (Tang) Zhu Kui "Hairpin Xiao Zhi": "Ruan Yuan Ji used apricot blossom to insert sideburns."

Tang Li: (Tang) Yuan Zhen's poem "Evening of the Village Flowers": "Three springs have been the twilight of the peach and plum injuries, Tang Li's flowers are white and yellow. Daughters in the village will compete to pick, inserted thorns sideburns and exaggerated." Roses: (Five Dynasties) Li Jian? Spring Lyrics: "A rose is folded, and a rose is pinned to the phoenix hairpin by the king." Jasmine: "Ashes Palace Records": "after the hairpin jasmine, Kunning has more than 61 plants, flowers are very busy. Every morning to pick flowers clustered into a ball, adorned in a bun."

In general, the spring hairpin peony, peony; summer hairpin pomegranate, jasmine; fall hairpin chrysanthemums, okra, etc.. There are also hairpin palace flowers, palace flowers are made of Luo, silk, grass and other raw materials. Different festivals, the hairpin flowers are different:

Superior New Year's Eve, "women are loaded with beads and emeralds, haunted e, jade plums, snow willow." "Haunted E", cut color into the shape of flowers or nymphs, insects. "Jade Plum Blossom" is a plum blossom made of white silk. "Snow Willow" is a flower branch clustered with silk flowers.

On the Dragon Boat Festival, "jasmine bloomed, and no fewer than hundreds of people in and out of the city pounced on the flowers."

Autumn, "Inside and outside the city, the streets were filled with rowan leaves in the morning, and women, girls, and children competed to buy them, cut them like a pattern, and inserted them in their temples to fit the season."

The Chongyang Festival, "is the day when people drink new wine and ask for dogwood hairpins and chrysanthemums."

In addition to women's hairpins, the phenomenon of men's hairpins existed in the Tang Dynasty, and became increasingly common in the Song Dynasty, and also became the rituals of certain ceremonies.

"History of Song Dynasty - the costume" in: "Zhongxing, suburban rituals, the hall ceremony back to the emperor, bureaucrats and attendants and hairpin flowers, complimentary thanks to the day as well." Visible at that time to participate in important ceremonies of the hundred officials and attendants are to hairpin.

In the folk wedding ceremony, according to the Song Dynasty wedding customs, the groom can "wear a flower or two branches, one or two pieces of victory." Sheng means flower victory, an ancient type of jewelry.

Song dynasty court banquets, "tasted the spring and autumn of the quarter of the Zhong and the holy festival, suburb sacrifices, the book of the field rites after the tour to set up banquets, but from the officials in advance, known as the curved banquets." The emperor to give the group of ministers to give flowers, by the ambassador for the insertion of wear. The friends can also hairpin flowers at the banquet. If there is a national disaster year, plague, anniversary of the death, etc., then you can not hairpin flowers.

Hairpin flowers in addition to aesthetic, there is also the symbolism of the evil spirits. "Jasmine can drive away ghosts, wearing chrysanthemums can make you live a long life" and so on.

Hairpins are a legacy of ancient Chinese women's adornment. In the lyrics of the Quanzhou Gaojia opera "Peach Blossom Hitching a Ferry," there is the saying, "Surrounded by flowers in April, one hairpin weighs two." Many women in Hui'an Luoyang, Nan'an Fengzhou, Jinjiang Heshi and Shuangyang in Quanzhou still keep the custom of "hairpin and flower circumference".

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