Gu Guan is also called Gu, Gu, Gu, Gu, Gu, Gu, Gu and so on. "Auntie Crown" is actually a Chinese transliteration of Mongolian "women's headdress". In fact, my aunt has four explanations in the Chinese dictionary.

This word is not only "a polite address for my father's sister or younger sister", but also means "woman"; "Crown" means hat. In fact, the above refers to the same thing, that is, a headdress of Mongolian women in the Yuan Dynasty, a tall and long hat made in Mongolian.

shape

It is made of battens as a frame and wrapped with birch bark. The lower part is cylindrical and the upper part is Y-shaped. The exterior is decorated with red or brown printed cotton cloth. This is a popular crown ornament for Mongolian women in the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties.

This crown is cylindrical, with a square top and a height of about two feet. It is made of bamboo and wood, covered with paper or leather, and usually decorated with red silk, which is wrapped in precious silk and decorated with various jewels. A slender feather is inserted in the crown, or decorated with a willow iron.

You can see it from a distance with this hat, which is very conspicuous. Guillaume de Rubreux Quez called this kind of aunt "Hubble" in Travels to the East. Changchun Zhenren's Mongolian History, Caomuzi, The Journey to the West and other books describe the shape of this crown in detail.

Ye's "Plants in the Late Yuan Dynasty and Early Ming Dynasty" has such a description: "Empresses and ministers in the Yuan Dynasty all wore" long coats ".