Finger protectors, as the name suggests, are used to protect nails. Empresses and concubines in the Qing Dynasty liked to keep their nails to show the delicate fingers of noble women. They are elegant and beautiful, but nails that are too long are easy to crack and break. In order to protect this slender and fragile nail, it needs to be covered with sleeves, which is the origin of finger protector.
Of course, the function of finger protection is not only to protect nails, but also to show the fashion of Manchu ladies. After a long period of evolution, finger protection has developed from a simple armor product to an independent hand ornament. Its raw materials are more and more expensive, and its styles are more and more exquisite, which has become a status symbol.
According to research, the fingernails of the Empress of Qing Dynasty are gold, silver, copper, jade, tortoise shell, enamel and so on. They are decorated by various manufacturing processes, such as hollowing out, carving and inlaying. The patterns converge from the roots to the fingertips, the lines are natural and smooth, and the hollow design on the back is also very humanized. Even in hot summer, it won't be boring.
It must be pointed out here that women at different levels in the Qing Dynasty made different regulations on jewelry. For example, the financial gloves worn by queens and concubines are different in material and workmanship. In fact, it's not just hand guards, but also other clothes and jewelry. Therefore, like the costume drama of the Qing Dynasty, it is disrespectful and basically impossible for the princess to grin and take off the earrings worn on her ears and give them to the queen.
In addition to the grade, ladies-in-waiting who have been favored by the emperor and ladies-in-waiting who have not been favored by the emperor wear different jewelry, and between concubines, those who have given birth to a prince and those who have not given birth to a prince are also different. In short, in the palace, clothing and jewelry are strictly customized. They committed the crime of trespassing because they wore the wrong clothes and jewelry. There are countless people who died inexplicably.