The necessary knowledge of hair accessories for Daming girls.

The necessary knowledge of hair accessories for Daming girls.

When women dressed up in the Ming Dynasty, they decorated their heads with all kinds of jewelry, showing almost no hair. However, because these various hairpins are inserted in different positions, they have various names.

Top hairpins: Top hairpins are inserted at the top of the bun from top to bottom, usually single and sometimes paired. Pairs are half handsome, and singles are often gorgeous and complicated.

Picking the flower heart: Picking the flower heart is named because it is worn on the front of the top bun in a bottom-up way. Most of the hairpin feet are flat, and the most common ones are Buddha statues, as well as auspicious patterns such as stupas, Sanskrit, Phoenix and Empress Dowager.

Mind wandering: There is a hairpin before and after the bun under the heart, which is called mind wandering. If you want to subdivide, the former will be distracted before calling, and the latter will be distracted after calling.

Cover the temples: flowers and leaves woven by tired silk are stored in clouds. Hairpins of this shape are called temples-forehead and temples, which are four temples. Covering temples are inserted upside down at temples used for holding hair, and both sides are always inserted symmetrically.

Flower head hairpin: There are two main ways to insert flower head hairpin. Flower-headed hair clips used for curly hair and decoration are inserted directly into the bun, sometimes with many pieces inserted at the same time. Hairpins are flower heads such as plum blossom, peony, lotus and chrysanthemum, with small diameter and tapered feet.

Needle pecking: The small hairpin on the head of the Ming Dynasty, called needle pecking, means that the head of the hairpin and the foot of the hairpin intersect at right angles, and the foot is particularly slender. The hairpin feet are often made of silver, and the pattern of the hairpin head is the most commonly used by grass insects, such as bees, dragonflies, spiders, leeches and so on.

Flower hairpin: The flower hairpin was originally worn at the front bottom of the bun. It is a kind of hairpin with an arc-shaped ring on the whole, with a vertical backward hairpin foot at the back, and it needs to be inserted into the hair when wearing it. But in the later period, it developed into a hair band with the left and right ends tied in a bun. At that time, it was called "Huahua" and "flower girl".

Earrings: In the Ming Dynasty, it should be divided into earrings and earrings.

Waist bun: Waist bun, also known as "twining rope" and "cloud bun", is worn with hairpins. It was first seen in the Song Dynasty, and its shape was slightly simplified in the Ming Dynasty. Drill a small hole in the curved golden beam, tie a belt under it, decorate pearls, gems and garlands, and let the old man hang down to his forehead.

Full crown: "Full crown" is a very important piece of jewelry in the Ming Dynasty. Wear it on the back of the bun, and it is shaped like a pen. It is wavy from top to bottom, towering in the middle of the top, with a pointed arch protruding, and gradually decreasing on both sides. In order to adapt to the shape of the bun, the whole bun is bent back into a certain arc, and there are long hairpin feet on the back for inserting the bun.