A brief explanation of the jewelry involved in this article:

Si Zhen: In the Tang Dynasty, the department that made jewelry for the palace concubine was the Si Zhen Department, and Si Zhen was the female official in charge. This article is empty, and only takes the name of "Si Zhen". The heroine is the heir of the hairpin family, and her greatest honor is to settle in the Si Zhen Department and become the Si Zhen.

The evolution of the headdress: 笄 is the earliest form of hairpin, ancient women over 15 years old knotted hair, with the flute, because the woman is called 15 years old and 笄. It also refers to having reached the age of marriage, such as "the age is over the end of the year".

The history of the flute is very long, and archaeological finds have proven that the use of the flute was very common by the Neolithic period at the latest. Bamboo flute is the earliest form of the ancient flute, so the radical of the character 笄 is from "bamboo".

Hairpin: Composed of two hairpins, the famous purple jade hairpin of the Tang Dynasty and the hairpin head phoenix of the Song Dynasty are used as the title of the book.

Step shaking: simply put, it is a hairpin or hairpin with a tassel or pendant, and when walking, the gold jewelry will swing with the lotus step, lifelike. Take its steps to shake, hence the name step shake.

Crown: The most famous is the phoenix crown, which is worn by the queen (queen mother) during canonization, sacrifice, and celebration. Crowns can also be made by upper-class noblewomen or by golden branches and jade leaves with transcendent status, but they cannot be decorated with phoenixes.

The ladies and ladies are no longer satisfied with a simple hairpin or hairpin and step shake, so a whole set of headdresses has appeared, haute couture, unique.

The hairpin-making process mentioned in this article, such as tired silk (filigree), filigree, chiseled gold, inlay, gilt (gilding) and other processes are broad and profound, the author's skills are still shallow just a brush, if you are interested, you can search: fine gold process to understand.

In addition, the jewelry that women are independent and gorgeous and shine in Chinese history are as follows:

Huasheng: The earliest to see the Classic of Mountains and Seas, "hoopoe" refers to the Queen Mother. (This article is not written)

Comb grate: exquisite hair comb, large family comb is very complex, need different sizes, comb different combs, mostly ivory, jade, precious Chinese wood as materials; Can be used as a hair ornament. (This article will mention)

Wipe forehead: also known as forehead belt, headband, headband, eyebrow, brain bag, Han costumes, more popular in the Ming Dynasty (this article is not written).

Arm Chuan: A kind of ring-shaped jewelry set on the upper arm, especially suitable for women with round and slender upper arms, which can express the charm of women's upper arms plump and round. After the Western Han Dynasty, the trend of wearing armbands prevailed.

Hua Tian (diàn): It is a flower ornament on the face of women in ancient times. Huadian has three colors: red, green and yellow, with red as the most, and is made of gold and silver in the shape of a flower, which is covered on the face, and is a kind of jewelry that is more popular in the Tang Dynasty. Among them, there is the famous plum blossom makeup, also known as Shouyang makeup, where Shouyang refers to Princess Shouyang, the daughter of Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty.

Forehead Yellow: A kind of ancient Chinese women's beauty ornament, also known as "goose yellow", "crow yellow", "about yellow", "paste yellow", "flower yellow". It is named because it is dyed with yellow pigment or pasted on the forehead. In ancient China, the custom of yellowing women's foreheads, about the same as Huadian, originated in the Northern and Southern Dynasties or earlier.

There is also a unique flag head of the Qing Dynasty.

This article is empty and will not be repeated one by one.