#chinese hairpin

[roselake30]

Chinese Fashion hairpin

Some Chinese Fashion hairpin

https://www.roselakesp.com/products/chinesefashionhairpin.html

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

professional chinese cosplay-wig makers displays her products (cr: AAAA专业理发彩妆师琦姐)

[yebreed]

Curious Ming Dynasty Hairpins in the shape of two shrimps. Found on a gilt silver hair cover excavated in a tomb in Shanghai. Exhibited at the Shanghai Museum of Art.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

A-Qing, the little fox.

[xinyuehui]

Li Lianhua • Lotus Li's Lotus Hairpins

[simply-whump]

Are You the One : Episode 23

[junithelooperrrr]

Hi hanfu tumblr! I'm not sure who to ask about this, but is it appropriate to wear the hairpins (I think theyre called zan, and notably the velvet flower / ronghua type style) with non-hanfu outfits? Like, just regular outfits?

I think they're absolutely stunning, but I know, even if I had a hanfu that was like. frmo my dreams. i'd never end up wearing it

[madeleineengland]

Lu Yuxiao in "Love in the Clouds" ☁

[miss0atae]

The beauty of hairpin and the concept of marriage.

I'm already so intrigued by the new trailer of The Loyal Pin. Something caught my eyes when I watched it and this is the exchange of the hairpin between Pin and Anin.

Hairpin has a history in Chinese Culture and I've discovered that Thai Chinese are the largest minority group in the country and have been deeply ingrained into all elements of Thai society. This is purely speculation and I'm not a historian. I'm just making deduction from what I've seen in the trailer.

In ancient China, hairpin were a status symbol. They could also symbolize the transition from childhood to adulthood. Hair and hair accessories can have philosophical, romantic, and cultural meanings. Exchanging an hairpin could mean you give special attention to someone else. Especially as Pin isn't a princess like Anin. It can also be seen as the equivalent of the western version of giving a ring to your betrothed. By giving the hairpin to Pin, Anin is showing her interest and desire to pursue a romantic relationship with her.

The series also implies that Anin is spending a lot of time with the missionaries and how it affects her way of speaking and behaving. So, it may be also why there is a ring exchange too.

I can't wait to see if I'm guessing right or if I'm just creating all this drama in my head.

source: hairpinmuseum, wikipedia (I know it's bad to rely solely on wikipedia but it's just a light post) , chinadaily

[chinesehanfu]

【Historical Reference Artifacts】

Tang Zhao Mausoleum, Tomb of Princess Xincheng Mural

Tang Dynasty Yan Concubine Tomb Mural （672 AD）

Tang Dynasty Hairpin Unearthed from the tomb of Wu King Wife Tomb

[Hanfu · 漢服]China Tang Dynasty Chinese Traditional Clothing Hanfu & Hairstyle Reference to Tang Dynasty Murals & Relics

Emperor Gaozong of Tang (649-683 AD）Woman Attire & Hairstyle

【History Note】

After the rule of "Governance during the Zhenguan Reign/贞观之治” By Emperor Taizong and the rule of “Governance during the Yonghui Reign/永徽之治”during the Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty ushered in a prosperous age. 

During this period, more styles of women's attire appeared. At that time, women in Chang'an(Tang Dynasty capital) popularized a tall round-shaped hair bun, called the double-ring Wangxian hairstyle(双环望仙髻),and insert a long slender flower shape hairpin on this hair bun.

Woman wearing this " Mofu/陌腹" on the outside.Mofu is made up of thin strips of cloth, and if it is a person with status or money, it is even more spliced into dozens of strips.Under the Mofu, woman wearing a wearing a 间色裙 (inter-color skirts).

Emperor Gaozong promulgated order call" 建东都诏/Jiandongdu" changed the Luoyang Palace to the East capital of Tang. Since then, Tang Dynasty has opened “two capital eras”. At that time, the fashion of Changan quickly scraped Luoyang and became popular in Luoyang, but in the end this extravagant style was banned by Emperor Gaozong, so that woman's dressing are not so extravagant, but later at the beginning of Emperor Xuanzong period, this kind of women fashion has come out again for short period.

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Recreation Work:@真修言

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[cclassical-share]

Flower Hairpin - Chinoiserie Accessory

Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage: Velvet Flower

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Xuanzong and Yang fled but the soldiers escorting them, blaming Yang for the civil war, demanded her death. Xuanzong – sobbing, desperate to keep his love out of the soldiers' hands – had his chief eunuch strangle her. "Flowery hairpins fell to the ground, no one picked them up," wrote Bai Juyi.

The Emperor could not save her, he could only cover his face.

And later when he turned to look, the place of blood and tears

Was hidden by a yellow dust blown by a cold wind.

According to legend, Xuanzong hired a seer who tracked down Yang's spirit on an enchanted island. "'Our souls belong together,'" Bai's poem has her tell the emperor; "'somewhere, sometime, on earth or in heaven, we shall surely meet.'"

"Why the West Rules – For Now: The patterns of history and what they reveal about the future" - Ian Morris

[ziseviolet]

What is that accessory on a guy's topknot hair?

Hi, thanks for the question, and sorry for taking ages to reply! (Below - Bai Jingting as Yin Zheng in cdrama New Life Begins)

Please see my post here for the answer to your question, and hope it helps! ^^

[yaoigoddess9158]

The urge to buy something is coming back but I know for a fact I can’t afford to keep buying random things 😭😭

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

make hairpins for chinese hanfu by 大冲冲

[utenaesque]

I have more thoughts on Akio, Anthy, the residents of Ohtori, and hairpins. This one has a few stretches of imagination and asides, so bear with me, I'm mostly giving myself a nice little pretext to write more meta about Chinese art elements at Ohtori.

The hairpin is quite ancient in China. Wearing a jade pin speaks to Akio's long life and firsthand deep art knowledge yet his eclecticism given the mix of old and new style elements in his wardrobe.

One of the most ornate motifs seen in hairpins from imperial China is a word that can also be used to write Ohtori in Japanese: the Chinese word fènghuáng 鳳凰, or phoenix. Interestingly, the fènghuáng was first a descriptor for two birds. Originally, a male was the fèng and a female phoenix was the huáng. In the Yuan dynasty the words were merged, so since then, that distinction isn't made and the word means an overall single female-aligned but sometimes multigendered bird who represented the Chinese empress (the wearer of the phoenix hairpins).

The Chinese phoenix is a composite creature made up of many different real animals-- these vary by source-- and has a tail of many colors. The five primary colors of the tail are white, black, red, yellow, and green. These colors symbolize Confucian virtues.

Utena, Mikage, Touga, Nanami, and Saionji (in their capacities as victor of the duels; Professor Nemuro/setter of the fire at the research hall which killed the young researchers; and student council president, intermediate president/accidental slumber party bud with Utena and Anthy, and vice president) arguably get the closest to Akio and Anthy. Those five above all other characters see the most of the reality of the duels and the true natures of Anthy and Akio, the feathers of the tail being nearest to the bodies of the paired phoenixes.

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Speaking of Saionji, who carved the other hairpin of importance presented, there is a Chinese genre potentially behind his chosen carving for Wakaba/Anthy. The wooden leaf he makes reminds me of the gold cicada on a jade leaf style, about which Liu Fang writes:

"The gold cicada on a jade leaf is called 'jin chan yu ye' in Chinese. 'Chan' means cicada, and cicada is also called 'zhiliao' in China, 'zhi' as the abbreviation. So the object can also be called 'jin zhi yu ye,' which is a homonym with a famous Chinese idiom, meaning 'one of noble birth,' used to praise young ladies. For women and girls of ancient China, there was no praise higher than 'jin zhi yu ye.'"

And of course, Wakaba is not the princess of our story. Anthy is.

The thing about the strangeness and surrealism surrounding Ohtori Academy is that the characters learn to see it as normal, just like a real person in a bad situation might not realize it because that's the whole world surrounding them. In the same way, the narrative might also at times lead the viewers to dismiss these strange and questionable things they're being shown, and so they might say things like "that's just how anime is" in the same way one might claim "that's just how the world is", so in conclusion that's why I feel the need to point out that Akio has a stupid fucking green ball on his hair