what? Also known as Luo, Wei, Wei towel, etc., it originated from a large headscarf introduced in the Northern Dynasties.
what? It is a must-have item for women to go out from Sui Dynasty to early Tang Dynasty, that is, covering the head with gauze and silks and covering the whole body can prevent dust and avoid passers-by from peeping.
where can a noble lady, lady or rich family stay? Decorated with pearls and jade. Sui Shu (Volume 45) Biography of Qin Wangjun records that when Emperor Wendi was in Sui Dynasty, Qin Wangjun was skillful at work, and he personally made seven treasures for his concubine? . The so-called seven treasures refer to the ornaments of golden jade and pearls.
2) Curtain hat
Curtain hat, also known as mat hat and hat, is a kind of hat with high top and wide eaves. A layer of black silk is hung around the hat, which hangs down to the neck and covers the head, thus preventing sand and peeping.
this kind of hat style also comes from the western regions. Because Wang Zhaojun wore a curtain hat when he left the fortress, it was also called "Zhaojun hat".
The "curtain hat" worn by women during the Yonghui period in the Tang Dynasty is similar to the Dai hat worn by Hui 'an women in modern southern Fujian.
3) Hun Tuo
Hun Tuo is a kind of Hu Mao, which was the most famous in Sui and Tang Dynasties.
The so-called muddy hat originally refers to the hat made of animal skin, which is popular among the ethnic groups in the northwest, and is also called fan hat. Later, it was developed to be made of felt or brocade.
It is characterized in that the top of the hat is arc-shaped, the top is high and pointed, and there are small ear protection fans on both sides, and fur trim can be turned up and down.
During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, women paid attention to facial makeup and regarded it as an important etiquette.
"The golden glow on the face is thin, and the green eyebrows are deep." Women are charming and dazzling, luxurious and graceful, magnificent, and display their individuality and vitality.
1) Wen Mei
There are many kinds of women's eyebrows in the Tang Dynasty. In the early Tang Dynasty, they were mainly "thin eyebrows", in the middle Tang Dynasty, they were mainly "wide eyebrows", and in the late Tang Dynasty, their eyebrows were slim, and a variety of eyebrows coexisted.
In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, women often shaved off their original eyebrows, and then painted various shapes with a blue-black pigment made of charred wicker or ore, named Daimei.
In addition to Dai Mei, there are Cui Mei and Huang Mei.
According to the thrush methods, there are two methods, namely, cleaning the black dress and fumigating the ink.
There is a poem by Du Fu: "But I don't like the color of powder, and I despise the beauty of moths."
Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty once ordered painters to design ten eyebrows, namely Yuanyang (also known as eight-character eyebrows), hill (also known as distant eyebrows), three peaks, hanging beads, moon edges, split tips, smoke, clouds, fainting and five mountains, and gave them to different concubines for use.
2) Make-up
During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there were many kinds of women's make-up, such as: flower makeup, wine halo makeup, Shouyang makeup, moth eyebrow makeup, crow makeup, feixia makeup and so on.
The decorative flowers on the face can be painted or pasted on the face.
The makeup sequence is: first apply lead powder, second apply rouge, third apply goose yellow, fourth apply black eyebrows, fifth apply rouge, sixth apply face enamel, and seventh apply applique enamel.
(1) Flower makeup
Flower makeup refers to the use of colors to dye and paint patterns on the brow, cheeks, temples, etc., or the use of "flower makeup" made of gold, silver and feather jade to make makeup.
The legend of flower buds comes from early women with scars or freckles on their cheeks, and dots, moon shapes, flower shapes and other patterns are dotted with colors such as painters and cinnabar red. The dimples outside the two lip corners are also covered with red dots and other patterns as cheeks.
(2) Oblique red makeup
Oblique red makeup is also called drunken makeup and rouge makeup.
Rouge, commonly known as red and blue flowers, is made into paste or powder. When making up, white powder is first applied, and then rouge is evenly mixed in the palm of your hand and rubbed on your cheeks like a touch of setting sun.
It is recorded in "The Makeup Desk" that: "Beauty's makeup is made up by applying powder, then mixing it with rouge in the palm of her hand, and applying it to her cheeks. The strong one is' drunken makeup' and the shallow one is' peach blossom makeup'. "
Oblique red is generally applied between the temples and cheeks, or it looks like a scar, a leaf curl or a meniscus.
(3) moth eyebrow makeup
refers to the curved and long eyebrows like the tentacles of a silkworm moth.
Li Bai's "Resentment": "how beautiful she looks, opening the pearly casement, sitting in a beautiful place, you may see the tears now, bright on her cheek, but not the man she so bitterly loves."
from sui dynasty to early Tang dynasty, most eyebrow makeup was fine.
(4) Shouyang makeup
is also called "plum blossom makeup".
It is said that in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, one day, Princess Shouyang, a female in Song Wudi, was lying under the eaves of the temple, and a plum blossom was falling on her forehead, dyed in color, and could not be brushed away. After three days of washing, it fell, and the ladies-in-waiting saw it strangely and rushed to follow suit.
The women in the Tang Dynasty imitated the plum shape painted on the forehead, and produced a unique form of facial makeup in the Tang Dynasty.
(5) Crow makeup
Crow makeup, named after its "appearance like a sad crow", was popular in Tang Chaoyuan and, mainly in Chang 'an and Luoyang, and was spread by ethnic minorities in northwest China.
It is characterized in that the cheeks are painted with black paste instead of red powder, and the eyebrows are painted in a figure of eight, which is grotesque and mournful.
3) Flower bud
Flower bud is a kind of flower ornament on women's faces in ancient times, which originated from the Southern Dynasties and Song Dynasties. It was made of gold foil and silver pieces and pasted on the forehead, cheeks, corners of the mouth and sideburns.
In addition to various flower shapes, there are also shapes such as birds and small fish, and they are made into round, pointed, flower-shaped and various symmetrical shapes.
Hua Duan is the most distinctive facial makeup in the Tang Dynasty.
During the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, the clothing was elegant in modeling and magnificent in material, with silk and hemp as the main fabrics and bright warm colors such as red, purple and yellow as the main colors.
Rich women often use fine silk fabrics for their clothes, which are soft, thin and delicate.
The patterns are mainly linked beads to birds and animals, including peacock, bird, lion, sheep, duck, chicken, deer and dragon patterns, and new patterns such as group flowers, precious flowers, knight, king Hu, noble characters, auspicious characters and king characters have also appeared.
In the Tang Dynasty, the hollow paper pattern plate was used, which played a great role in improving the printing and dyeing quality of fabrics.
It was also popular in the Tang Dynasty to embroider and draw flowers with gold and silver on silk.
Embroidery includes lock embroidery and plain needle embroidery.