Song Dynasty Costume: A Complete Collection of Women's Hairstyles in Song Dynasty

In Song Dynasty, women's hair styles inherited the legacy of the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, and high bun was the most important thing. Hair styles in the Song Dynasty are still rich and colorful, full of wonders, and quite unique.

Although it was also popular in the Song Dynasty to wear a big bun and a big comb, on the whole, it was not as gorgeous and grand as in the Tang Dynasty. Although there have been many changes in facial makeup, it is not as rich and beautiful as the Tang Dynasty. In a word, the overall modeling of women in the Song Dynasty gives people an elegant and natural feeling.

Women in Song Dynasty liked high bun very much. In order to make their bun taller, they mixed wigs in it. It is said that women in Song Dynasty had high bun and dangerous bun as high as two feet, which were the result of following the fashion.

hair accessories can be roughly divided into high bun and low bun. High bun is mostly combed by ladies, while ordinary women comb low bun. "Chaotian bun" needs to be mixed with real hair with a wig. So at that time, there were also shops specializing in wigs. "concentric bun" is similar to "chaotian bun", but it is simpler. When combing, the hair is combed up to the top of the head and tied into a round bun.

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In the late Northern Song Dynasty, women not only imitated the clothing of the Khitan, but also made the hairstyle of the Jurchen nationality with the hair tied and the chest hanging down, which was called "Jurchen makeup". It was popular in the palace at first, and then spread all over the country. Similar to concentric bun, the root of bun is tied with ribbon, and the ribbon hangs like a tassel "tassel bun"; "falling horse bun"; "Lazy comb bun" is usually a hairstyle combed by female geisha in teaching workshops during banquets. "bun" is to wrap the bun with colored silk, tapirs and other fabrics after it is combed; "Shoulder-hanging bun", as its name implies, refers to a bun with shoulders hanging, which belongs to a kind of low bun. As for "Ya Ji", "Shuang Huan" and "Luo Ji", they are all hairstyles combed by unmarried girls.

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chaotian bun: it is a kind of high bun full of times. "History of Song Dynasty, Five Elements of Wood": "At the beginning of Jianlong, at the end of Meng Chang, Shu, women competed for a high bun, which was named Chaotian bun." This typical style of bun can be seen in the colored sculptures of Notre Dame Temple in Jinci, Taiyuan, Shanxi. Its practice: comb your hair to the top first, then braid it into two symmetrical cylindrical buns and extend it to your forehead. In addition, it is necessary to put a hairpin and other things under the bun to make the front of the bun rise high, and then set all kinds of flowers and jewels on the bun, so that the whole hair style is seamless and unique.

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Bao Ji: In the colored sculptures of Jinci in Taiyuan, Shanxi, we can also see a unique hairstyle-Bao Ji. "Tokyo Dream of China Record" contains a medium matchmaker Dai Guanzi and a yellow bun. It is made by wrapping a cloth towel such as silk and silks after the hair styling has been finalized. This hairstyle is characterized by the wrapping skills of silk cloth towels, which are wrapped into various flower shapes, or made into a floating cloud and other objects, decorated on the bun shape, and decorated with flowers, jewelry and other decorations, and finally form a simple and elegant novel hairstyle.

Double-flat bun: Also known as Longrui bun, it is somewhat like a squashed bun tied with colorful buttons. Su Shi has a sentence of "double bun". This kind of bun is found in the Song Dynasty's Semi-Leisure Autumn Scenery, with flowers and beads on it. This kind of bun, like a dragon and a phoenix, has its own luxury.

bun: bun was very popular in the song dynasty. Huang Tingjian's poem says, "A new comb in the mirror will comb twelve dishes". There is a kind of high bun with a single jar in the tomb of Baisha Song Dynasty, which seems to have evolved from the circular vertebral bun in Tang Dynasty. Girls often wear double and triple bun, and there is a woman who wears triple bun in Moonlight under the Forest.

Double Ya and Three Ya Ji: In Song Dynasty, girls used to comb double Ya or three Ya Ji, and tied them with a headband with pearls hanging down. For example, a girl in Su Hanchen's "Winter Play Baby Picture" in the Southern Song Dynasty combs a three-bun, inserts three short gold hairpin, wears a red hair and hangs beads.