China News Service, Wuxi, July 26 (Reporter Sun Quan) "The gold and silver ornaments of the Ming Dynasty are extremely rich, with exquisite craftsmanship and ingenious design. The aesthetic style has changed from the elegance and beauty of the Song Dynasty to the tranquility of interest, and has become more and more luxurious and gorgeous. "On the 26th, Sheng Min, curator of the exhibition department of Wuxi Museum, introduced the characteristics of Ming Dynasty gold and silver jewelry to the visitors.

  On the same day, the Wuxi Museum's "Beauty of Luxury - Special Exhibition of Ming Dynasty Gold Wire Hair Covers" was launched. The Ming Dynasty gold hair covers displayed in the exhibition were woven with extremely fine gold threads. , The whole is elegant and beautiful, but it is full of extravagance.

The front of the gold hood.

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  Gold hair hood is also called gold wire?

The bun, also known as the golden crown, the golden silk beam crown, and the golden silk bun in the Ming Dynasty, was a hair cover worn on the bun by married women in the Ming Dynasty on formal occasions. Fu-colored yarn is worn over the top of the head bun.

  "Women who married in the Ming Dynasty generally wore a bun, which is a sign of a woman's married status. Due to differences in status and family background, the materials of the bun worn by women at that time were also different, and the three most common ones were hair? Bun, silver thread? Bun, gold thread? Bun." Sheng Min introduced that in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, with the development of economy and extravagance of customs, married women with noble status or wealthy families wore golden threads.

Updos are fashionable.

"The Beauty of Luxurious - Ming·Golden Thread Hair Cover Special Exhibition" attracted the public to watch the exhibition.

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  Take the gold wire hair hood exhibited this time as an example. The hair hood is made up of two parts connected by the top and the eaves. The frame and the spiral pattern are made of thick gold wire, and then covered with a mesh of extremely fine woven gold wire. .

The top of the hat is slightly spherical, the brim of the hat is made into a round wide band, and the middle is made of thick gold wire to make two beams. The spiral patterns on both sides are bent backwards. to put the hairpin on.

Gold wire?

The bun was frequently unearthed in Ming tombs, and the shape and craftsmanship were different from refined, crude, and vulgar.

  "The gold wire hair mask has extremely high technical requirements for fine gold craftsmanship. The craftsmen need to melt the gold at a high temperature of more than 1000 ℃, and then use tools to pull the gold wire into a uniform thickness for complex weaving." Sheng Min introduced, The golden hair hood on display is a national first-class cultural relic, with a total height of 8.5 cm, a bottom diameter of 8.2 cm and a weight of 86 grams.

"This piece is a true representation of the fine craftsmanship of the ancient fine goldsmiths."

  Sheng Min hopes that through this exhibition, the audience can have a close look at the masterpieces of gold and silver jewelry in the Ming Dynasty, and feel the exquisite craftsmanship and unique aesthetic style of the Ming Dynasty.

  The gold thread of Ming Dynasty women?

The bun is usually worn together with the hairpin and hairpin jewelry, and sometimes it can also be worn alone.

Women can choose different styles of hairpins to match according to different occasions.

In case of important occasions, a complete set of jewelry including distraction, provocation, flower tin and gold and silver hairpins should be inserted on the bun, which is called "head face".

The curator introduced the interactive session of "The Beauty of Luxurious - Special Exhibition of Ming Jin Silk Hair Cover".

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  In order to increase the interactivity of the exhibition and let citizens feel more intuitively how to use the hair hood and hairpin in the Ming Dynasty's "head and face", Wuxi Museum has specially customized an interactive game for the exhibition. hood, hairpin and other operations to achieve personalized "head and face" customization.

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