Women’s hairstyles in the Song Dynasty were mostly inherited from the late Tang and Five Dynasties, and high buns were also popular. Hairstyles in the Song Dynasty can still be described as rich and colorful, full of surprises and quite unique.
Although big buns and large combs were also popular in the Song Dynasty, overall, they were not as gorgeous and grand as those in the Tang Dynasty; although there were many changes in facial makeup, It is not as colorful and colorful as the Tang Dynasty. All in all, the overall style of women in the Song Dynasty gives people an elegant and natural feeling.
Women in the Song Dynasty liked high buns very much. In order to make their buns taller, they mixed wigs into them. It is said that women in the Song Dynasty also had high buns that were two feet high. It is the result of following fashion.
Hair accessories styles can be roughly divided into high bun and low bun. High buns are mostly worn by noble ladies, while ordinary women wear low buns. The "upside-down bun" requires a wig mixed with real hair. Therefore, there were also shops specializing in wigs at that time. The "Concentric Bun" is similar to the "Upward Bun", but it is simpler. When combing, comb the hair up to the top of the head and pull it into a round bun.
In the late Northern Song Dynasty, in addition to imitating Khitan clothes, women also popularized the Jurchen hairstyle with their hair tied down and their breasts lowered. This kind of look is called "Jurchen makeup". It was popular in the palace at first, and then spread throughout the country. Similar to the concentric bun, the roots of the bun are tied with ribbons, and the ribbons hang down like tassels, such as the "tassel bun"; the "falling horse bun"; the "lazy comb bun", which is usually a hairstyle worn by female singers in the sect during banquets; "Wrapped bun" means that after the hair is combed into a bun, it is wrapped with colored silk, silk and other cloth; "hanging shoulder bun", as the name suggests, means that the bun hangs down to the shoulders and is a type of low bun. As for "Ya bun", "Double servant girl" and "Snail bun", they are all hairstyles worn by unmarried girls.
Upward bun
Upward bun: It is a high bun that is very contemporary. "History of the Song Dynasty? Five Elements Chronicles? Wood": "In the early years of Jianlong and the last years of Mengchang in Shu, women competed to have their hair styled into a high bun, named "Chaotian bun". This type of bun can be seen in the Song Dynasty painted sculptures in the Notre Dame Hall of Jinci Temple in Taiyuan, Shanxi. Typical style. The method: first comb your hair to the top, then braid it into two symmetrical cylindrical buns and extend them to the forehead. In addition, hairpins and other objects must be placed under the bun to make the front part of the bun rise high, and then the bun is decorated with various floral ornaments and jewelry. The entire hairstyle is integrated and unique.
Bun
Bun: In the painted sculptures of Jinci Temple in Taiyuan, Shanxi, we can also see a unique hairstyle with the characteristics of the times - bun. "Tokyo Menghualu" records that middle-level matchmakers wear crowns and yellow buns. The method of making it is to wrap the hair with a cloth scarf such as silk or silk after the hair style has been finalized. The characteristic of this hairstyle lies in the wrapping technique of silk scarf, which is wrapped into various flower shapes, or made into a floating cloud or other objects, and is decorated on top of the bun shape, and decorated with flowers, jewelry and other decorations , finally forming a simple and simple, yet elegant and novel hairstyle.
Double bun: Also called dragon bun, it looks like a flattened bun tied with colorful silk ribbons. Su Shi has a saying of "Cyan Wan Double Bun". "The Song Dynasty's Half-leisure Autumn Rejuvenation Picture" has this kind of bun with flowers and beads on it. This kind of bun looks like a dragon and a phoenix, giving it a sense of elegance and elegance.
Hairpin: Hairpin was very popular in the Song Dynasty. Huang Tingjian's poem says: "The twelve servant girls are newly combed by the dawn mirror." There is a kind of high bun with a single servant girl in the Baisha Song Dynasty tomb, which seems to have evolved from the ring-shaped bun in the Tang Dynasty. Girls often wear double or triple buns. There is a woman in "Moonlight under the Forest" who wears triple buns.
Double Ya and Three Ya buns: Girls in the Song Dynasty often wore double Ya or Three Ya buns, tied with a beard (headband) with hanging pearls. For example, in Su Hanchen's "Baby Playing in Winter" of the Southern Song Dynasty, a girl wears a three-Ya bun with three short gold hairpins, a red hair and beard, and a string of beads.
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