Xunzi is a kind of jewelry worn by ancient women in China, which is inlaid with golden flowers, tentacles and precious stones. There are two kinds of cymbals, one is practical cymbals, which don't need all kinds of jewelry to fix hair, and the other is decorative cymbals, which are inlaid with all kinds of jewelry, which are decorative and reflect their status.

On the premise of following the national tradition, Manchu aristocratic women's hair styles gradually changed from emphasizing practicality to emphasizing decoration, which not only changed the shape of the flag bun, but also indirectly promoted the birth of various characteristic hair accessories and the first clothes to decorate and beautify the flag bun. Xunzi was one of them. The shape design of Xunzi, which is high in the front and low in the back, and wide in the upper dome and lower, is highly consistent with the flat and broad flag bun in structure and aesthetic taste. When wearing it, it is covered on the flag bun, which is both stable and beautiful.

The moral of Xunzi

Hairpins, as jewelry, are worn on the head, which not only beautifies the bun, but also symbolizes the auspicious words made of hairpins and the beautiful pursuit of expressing feelings and wishes. As far as the hairpin ornaments left by empresses in Qing dynasty are concerned, the diversity of forms and patterns is beyond the previous generation. There are also the golden blessing in front of us, the plum blossom hairpin of the magpie and the longevity hairpin of the five bats, all of which are attractive for their exquisite carving and exquisite production.

According to Manchu custom, the wife should be her husband Dai Xiao, and she was released for 27 months. The hair clasp on your head should be made of uncut bone or pure silver. Cixi ordered the factory to produce a batch of headdresses such as silver gray jade and thymelaeaceae. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, most of the hairpins on the queen's head were relics handed down by ancestors, and all the queens in the palace regarded them as treasures. In the folk, generally speaking, the rich use jade and silver, and the poor use bones.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Xunzi