In ancient times, it was used to penetrate or fix hair and crowns. It is recorded in the Book of Rites: "The embarrassment of the skin is the embarrassment of the Jue." Zheng Xuan's note: "Hey, today's hairpin." Ancient women often used a knot to fix their hair.

In ancient times, when women came of age, they put their hair up with a spell, so the spell also refers to the rite of passage for women. "In the Soul of Li Yi's Poems": "The woman promised to marry and was praised as a gift." Zheng Xuan's note: "As a gift for women, it is still the crown of men." "Book of Rites": "Five out of ten women are embarrassed." Zheng Xuan's Note: "It is said that they will get married within this year, so they can say so. He is not allowed to get married, and twenty people are embarrassed. "

2. hey;

Developed from the quilt, it is a long needle used by the ancients to fix the bun or crown. Can be made of metal, bone, jade, etc. Later, it specifically refers to women's bun jewelry. Yi, hairpin, make your head into a hairpin that can scratch your head, so it is commonly called scratching your head. Miscellanies of Xijing records that when Emperor Wu visited Li Furen, he scratched his head with a jade hairpin. From then on, everyone in the harem scratched their heads with a jade hairpin. "The History of the Later Han Dynasty: Fish Fu Zhi" has: "Huang Jinlong's first title is white pearl, and the fish must bow, one foot long, which is called hairpin." Record.

3. hey;

A kind of jewelry is made up of two hairpins crossed and combined. It is used to fix the hair, and it is also used to fix the hat on the hair. Notes on Chai Zi in Ancient and Modern China in the Five Dynasties: "Chai Zi covered the ancient monument. In Qin Mugong, it was made of ivory, and the king was awarded the honor of tortoise shell. At the beginning, the emperor was also made of gold and silver as a phoenix head, tortoise shell as a phoenix foot, and posthumous title as a phoenix hairpin. " There is a difference between a hairpin and a hairpin. Hairpins are made into one strand, and hairpins are generally made into two strands.

4. Huasheng;

That is, a flower-shaped jewelry that flowers win over ancient women, usually made into the shape of flowers and plants, inserted in a bun or embroidered on the forehead. Interpretation of names and jewelry: "Watson, Hua, like flowers of vegetation; Winning, people describe it as waiting, one person wins it, and the front is decorated. " Biography of Han Sima Xiangru: "The bald head is Dai Sheng, and the point is Xi." Tang Yan stone drum note; "Victory is also a woman's jewelry, and the Han Dynasty was called Watson."

5. Step by step;

A kind of jewelry worn by ancient women on their hairpins. Interpretation of names and jewelry: "Beads are hung on the steps, and the steps are also shaken." The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: "Walking with gold as the theme ..." Wang Xianqian quoted Chen Xiangdao as saying: "In the Han Dynasty, walking with gold was a phoenix, with a mansion under it, a coffin in front of it, and five ornaments to collect jade. If you hang down, you will shake. "

Bai Juyi used this sentence in Song of Eternal Sorrow: "The clouds in her hair, the petals on her cheeks, and the golden ripples in her crown when she walked are covered by warm hibiscus curtains on spring nights." To describe yang guifei.

6. Grate;

A comb tool that is denser than a comb. It also refers to combing hair with a comb to remove hair scales. Tang Li and the poem "Qin Gong": "Luan Bi wins the full moon and people don't get drunk." Wang Qi explained: "Grate, so decontamination, with bamboo as it, the image of Luan grate is Luan." China pays attention to etiquette since ancient times, and people attach great importance to their appearance and decoration. Combs were a necessity in ancient times.

Women, in particular, are almost inseparable from their bodies, and after a long time, they will form a grooming atmosphere. Combs in Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties were mostly trapezoidal, and their height was obviously reduced. Their materials and decorations vary according to their uses. After the Song Dynasty, combs tended to be flat, usually made into a half-moon shape. The combing style in Ming and Qing Dynasties basically maintained the Song system.

7. flower buds;

Flower-shaped decorations made of gold, silver, jade and shellfish. Song and Ming Ying Xing's "Heavenly Creations and Jade": "Every jade is broken and used as a flower." Zhong Note: "Flower-shaped ornaments are made of precious things, such as gold, mother-of-pearl, precious stones, emeralds and jade."

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Human beings have been using headdresses for a long time, which are all related to decoration. The word "beauty" in China's Chinese characters is actually a person wearing a headdress. Its headdress may be a sheep's head with two horns; Maybe it's two long feathers, so some people say that the word "beauty" is "like the shape of a dancer wearing feather ornaments on her head"

In fact, this situation can often be seen among ancient ethnic groups and modern ethnic minorities. It can be said that all ethnic groups in the world have a history of wearing headdresses, and they have spread to modern times in different forms.

Cangyuan County, southwest of Yunnan Province, China, is inhabited by Wa people. Here, on the steep cliffs on both sides of the lower reaches of the Mengdong River, Cangyuan Rock Painting, one of the oldest rock paintings in China, is preserved. Cangyuan cliff painting * * * found ten painting points and more than 700 clearly identifiable figures.

Among them, almost all tall figures have headdresses (and some have tail ornaments), and the headdresses are very prominent, and some headdresses even exceed the length of the human body itself. Most of the headdresses in Cangyuan rock paintings are horns, antlers, oxtails, deer tails, tiger tails and bird feathers, especially those with horns.

This situation is completely consistent with the records of Yunnan ethnic minorities in some ancient books. Yunnan Tongzhi said; "Wang Zi is very beautiful ... wearing short armor, with yak tail in his pocket, flying like a fly, and so is his woman." "Turquoise yeamans" said: "The messenger's clothes are all tiger skins and tiger skins, decorated with tiger tails on his head."

In addition, various local chronicles compiled in Ming and Qing Dynasties recorded that Jinuo and Jingpo people wore bone rings, inserted chicken feathers and wrapped red vines. Here you can see the headdresses of ethnic minorities in history.