What about the flowers worn by Princess Gege in Qing Dynasty?

The headdress flower on the head is actually developed from the hairpin and consists of two parts: flowers and needles. Flowers stick to your hair without needles! At first, Manchu women's hairstyles were mostly soft-winged. At this time, inserting some hairpins or something was enough for decoration.

But with the change of hairstyle, the hairstyle becomes wider and wider, becoming two heads, and finally being shelved and becoming big wings! In this way, the hair area has expanded unprecedentedly, and it is too poor for a small hairpin to be inserted on it, so the headdress flower came into being, because the headdress flower covers a large area.

Later, with the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the headdress flowers inserted by Manchu women were no longer popular. Instead, I chose some extremely exquisite pearls as the headdress, made of gold and silver, which was very luxurious. At this time, women put these beautiful ornaments on their heads. Although there are elements of dressing up, it is more about showing off the inside.

By the end of the Qing dynasty, the national strength was declining, and Gege could no longer afford so much money to build luxurious headdresses. In order to save money, they changed the pure gold into gold-plated and gold-clad, and the big jewelry flowers into velvet flowers, silk flower flowers, even paper flowers and grass flowers, and even the headdress flowers with delicate feathers were dyed with madder.

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Manchu women's favorite headdress is velvet flower, especially when their daughters get married, they must wear red velvet flower on their heads, which is auspicious. It is said that "velvet flower" in Chinese is similar to "splendor" in Manchu, so wearing velvet flower means prosperity.

Manchu women, as long as conditions permit, should wear velvet flowers not only on the wedding day, but also all the year round, seeking homophonic auspiciousness. In particular, seasonal velvet flowers should be worn in order: beginning of spring wears a spring flag, Qingming wears willow branches, Duanyang wears wormwood, Mid-Autumn wears osmanthus, Chongyang wears Cornus officinalis, and winter wears gourd flowers.

The headdresses of concubines in the Qing Dynasty, as well as a large number of velvet flowers, silk flower and silk flower, all exist in the world. These flowers are harmonious in color and rich in halo levels, which can be called "confused flowers". It is said that Yang Guifei in the Tang Dynasty had a mole on her temple, and she often wore large flowers on her temple to cover it up. Because flowers wither easily, people developed the color of flowers to make silk flower. This process is constantly developing, and the finer it is, the finer it is.

The headdresses made of velvet, silk and silk left over from the Qing Dynasty include white, pink and pink peony flowers, light yellow, medium yellow and dark yellow chrysanthemums, white, lotus root and snow blue Chinese rose flowers, pink and white plum blossoms, etc. It has lasted for a hundred years and is still glamorous and pleasing to the eye.

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Touhua-Baidu Encyclopedia