In ancient China, women had a long tradition of keeping their fingers and wearing finger protectors, but the fingernails handed down in Qing Dynasty were the most. Empresses and concubines in the Qing Dynasty liked to keep their nails. Generally speaking, it takes more than half a year to grow a nail about an inch long, and it will crack and break if you are not careful. In order to protect this slender nail, you put a protective cover on your finger.
Armor sleeves can be worn symmetrically, or with one hand or one finger. They are made of gold, silver, jade, tortoise shell, copper, enamel and other materials. Through the use of decorative techniques such as hollowing out, chiseling and inlaying, the size of the pattern is gathered from the base to the fingertips, which is natural and smooth, and the back is mostly carved, which makes the air circulate.
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In ancient China, women with high status had long nails, which showed that they didn't have to work.
In the Qing Dynasty, royal women in China used luxurious metal or cloisonne fingernails inlaid with beads and jade to protect their elaborately decorated nails. In the history of China, the most representative nail figure was Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty. She listened to politics and wore decorative metal or cloisonne fake nails on her little finger and ring finger to increase the length of nails and show her noble status.
Noble women in Qing Dynasty had long nails and dyed them with henna or impatiens for a long time. The fingernails in Qing Dynasty were made of gold and silver, with exquisite patterns and rich varieties. This picture shows the nail sleeve (also known as "finger protector") in Qing Dynasty. From left to right, there are jade-studded sunflower tortoise shells, gold armor, gold-studded Hua Die tortoise shells and gold-studded Mi Zhu regiment tortoise shells.
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