Look, this is the belt buckle of the ancients

With hook

　　Guangzhou Daily (by Bu Songzhu, all media reporter) Modern people use belts with belt buckles; ancient people also use belts with buckles, called belt hooks.

　　The belt hook, as the name suggests, is the hook used to tie waist or hang things in ancient my country.

It used to be the daily necessities of ancients, especially male nobles, literati and soldiers, and was very popular; and it has a very early history. The earliest known jade belt hook was unearthed at the Liangzhu site more than 4000 years ago.

Because it is used in clothing exteriors, it is the same as the big logo on the belt buckle today, and gradually evolved some distinctions between etiquette and identity.

"Huainanzi" says: "Sit in the whole hall varies depending on the hook." The phrase shows its role as an identity marker in ancient society.

　　The most beautiful belt hook found in Guangzhou is undoubtedly the batch of burial objects of the Nanyue King Zhao Xuan collected in the Museum of the Nanyue King of the Western Han Dynasty.

However, other museums also had some collections in the same period. For example, the early Western Han Dynasty golden belt hook excavated in the Han tomb of Xianlie Road Huizhou Cemetery in 1956 was collected by Guangzhou Museum.

　　The belt hooks of the Han Dynasty were made of gold, silver, copper, iron, jade, glass and other materials, with various shapes and exquisite craftsmanship.

Hooks can be divided into two types: curved and straight.

Generally, it consists of four parts: hook, neck, body and button.

The arc-shaped hook is combined with the loop and buckle to achieve the purpose of tightening and connecting the waistband; the straight-shaped hook is mainly used for hanging and connecting, but also for pure decoration.

Common hooks are mostly made of bronze, but also made of gold, silver, iron, jade, stone, wood, etc.

　　According to the existing data, the belt hook can be divided into strips, sticks, shovel, pipa, birds and beasts according to the shape. Men's belt buckles are roughly equivalent, which also shows its practicality.