It's hard to say, it's really hard to judge, the emperor's crown of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was made one after another, even if you guess to the lowest extent, each emperor must at least get a new one for himself, right?

I don't know if Pu Yi has made a new crown, because among the crown photos taken in the Forbidden City when he became an adult, the highest level is to wear a crown of auspicious clothes with a large pearl inlaid on a golden pedestal, and there seems to be no photo of him wearing a crown.

However, the emperors before Puyi definitely had a new crown, that is, ......

With a turn of his mind, Zhang Nan thought of something, which had something to do with the round Dongzhu on the crown of the dynasty, and from this point he could probably guess who this exquisite crown belonged to: the Qing Dynasty called the pearls produced in the Songhua River, Heilongjiang, Ussuri River, Yalu River and its basins in the northeast called Dongzhu, and the emperors also regarded high-quality Dongzhu as a rare treasure, and Dongzhu was absolutely indispensable in the crown clothing that represented power and honor.

However, according to the records of the Qing Dynasty, it is not easy to obtain the East Pearl: "It is not easy to get a pearl every time", and often "it is easy to count the river without a mussel, and the boat with a mussel can not be a pearl." ”

Dongzhu, not Chinese cabbage!

The ruler was crazy about the Dongzhu, even if the folk pearl diving was banned, the indiscriminate fishing of the completely national nature made the Dongzhu resources in the Heilongjiang River basin shrink rapidly in just a hundred years, and after the Yongzheng Dynasty, it was already "although there are occasional gains, the particles are very small, and they are too much to use." ”

But even so, the scale of the official pearl diving industry in the Qing Dynasty continued to expand, and the scale of the Qianlong Association reached its largest.

After the weakening of the national power, after the Xianfeng Dynasty because of the invasion of the Russian forces, the loss of the country, the pearl industry in the Northeast has shrunk dramatically, and now, the pearl industry in the Northeast has long been extinct, and the pearls in the East are also extinct.

The Dongzhu on the crown of the Qianlong Dynasty preserved in the Forbidden City is of extremely high quality, which will make Zhang Nan maliciously think: Did the old man dismantle the crown of his Lao Tzu in order to make up a complete set of top-level Dongzhu?

Thinking about it, this is really possible, because by the time of Qianlong, there are really not many resources in this Dongzhu.

I recalled the "standard statues" of Qing Dynasty emperors wearing crowns that I had seen in the Forbidden City: the eastern pearls on the heads of the first three Qing emperors were uniform in size and round. But on the portrait of the emperor from Jiaqing onwards, the 15 East Pearls on the "Golden Buddha" not only look smaller, but also a set of beads that are large and small, all of which are not of the same specifications.

Thinking of this, Zhang Nan said: "If you guess, it is most likely to eat chaff and diarrhea, Qianlong is also possible, that guy has been the emperor for 60 years, and it is not strange to be a few crowns."

But I guess that even if the old crown needs to be renovated, just change the hat body, this treasure top, Golden Buddha and Shelin can be disassembled, Qianlong doesn't need to get two sets of this grade of treasure top, the most likely is his grandfather's ......"

He also talked about the judgments he had drawn from the Dongzhu pearl diving industry, and Xiang Weirong said after hearing it: "Could it be Yongzheng?"

Zhang Nan shook his head, "Yongzheng, that workaholic, probably won't like such a fancy crown ornament, I remember that the portrait of the Forbidden City is the most rustic in the golden Buddha on his head, a solid gold plate inlaid with 15 eastern pearls."

Ugly!

As for Shunzhi, there should be no strict regulations on the golden Buddha on the hat, the style is somewhat different from later, and it is difficult to say whether the metalworking has this level. ”

Shunzhi was still fighting at that time, and probably didn't have much mind to fiddle with this kind of problem of hats on his head: the Manchu Qing Dynasty was still quite realistic, and the most important thing was to grab the world.

......

The outside of the hat box is divided into two layers, and the inside is actually opened: the three major accessories on the crown are not missing, and this lightning rod is a bit high.

Took it out and put it in the crown, the box was covered, and Zhang Nan stared at the other boxes that had been brought up—one count, and there were seven.

Don't pry it open first, try it by yourself, light and heavy.

smiled and said to the man on the side: "I hope there are hats inside." ”

A few people on the side laughed without cooperating: The old life is too fierce!

But just think about it: there is only one complete emperor hat in the Forbidden City, and there are more than 30 incomplete ones, all of which are only the hat itself, and the hat crown and other ornaments are long gone.

It's good to have one, don't be too greedy.

One by one: jewelry, European gold and silver antiques, seemingly very precious religious books... And a fancy European-style crown...

There are two boxes with a hat box in the style of the Qing Dynasty in China, and the size and height are even higher than the one that the emperor just now!

The two boxes were moved out first, but they were not opened for the time being, and they were put away.

Zhang Nan rubbed his hands, "It's fun to have two more, match this emperor." ”

Pairing, the male companion mother's - these two boxes have dark gold phoenix patterns, and it is estimated that the queen and the concubines are taller than the emperor's crown.

The lottery was generally opened, and sure enough, two crowns of the royal queen woman with exquisite craftsmanship and gorgeous appeared in front of her, and the styles looked almost identical.

Zhang Nan leaned down and looked at it for a while, and said, "The main and deputy ones are all together, one for the queen or the queen mother, and the other for the imperial concubine." ”

Qing system, the queen, the queen mother, the queen mother crown with scented mink in winter, and green velvet in summer. The two in front of me are velvet and belong to the summer crown: the crown is a dome in the shape of a semicircular slope, and there is a crown eaves around it.

The crown body is decorated with Zhu Wei, the crown is pagoda-shaped, divided into three layers, the top is used with the East Pearl, each layer runs through the East Pearl 1, all inherit the golden phoenix, decorate the East Pearl 3, the pearl 17 each, and the title of the Great East Pearl 1.

Zhu Wei was adorned with 7 phoenixes on the last week, each phoenix was decorated with 9 east pearls, 1 cat's eye stone, and the phoenix tail of each phoenix was decorated with pearls 21.

After the crown, the golden silk Zhai 1 (that is, a pheasant made of gold and silk), the back of Zhai is decorated with cat's eye stone 1, and the tail of Zhai is decorated with pearls 16.

From the Zhai bird drooping bead knot, by the five elements of each row of 64 pearls strung together, hanging in a flat row, in the middle of the half of the five elements of the beads, that is, the 32nd, connected with a round lapis lazuli knot, with gold silk circular ornament embedded lapis lazuli 1, east pearl 6, pearl 6 made.

Then from under the stone knot to hang the second half of the five elements of pearls, a total of 302 pearls, called "five elements of two on", each row of large pearls 1, the end of the coral.

After the crown, the gourd-shaped collar hangs down from the inside of the crown eaves, and the lower end of the collar hangs two bright yellow silk silks, decorated with gemstones, and the crown is decorated with blue ribbons on the left and right.

Xiang Weirong looked at the old man for a long time, and felt that there was no difference - anyway, they were all their own people, so there was nothing to be embarrassed about, Boss Guan asked: "I said how did you divide it, I look at it." ”

Zhang Nan pointed to a golden phoenix on one of the crowns and said: "There is no cat's eye stone on the crown of the imperial concubine 7 golden phoenixes, and the bead knots under these pheasants are not five elements and two, but three lines and two, and there are fewer pearls used, which should be 192." ”

The two stacked crowns are really indistinguishable if you don't look carefully.