The Research Of Female Ornaments In Song Dynasty

The ornaments of Women in Song dynasty mainly include headdress and surface decoration.Headdress can be divided into hairstyle and hair accessories. The basic characteristics of the wholehairstyle are high and great, this is the so-called buns.To make these tall buns, not only require some specialfixing tools and methods, but also need the use of wigs, only in this way can it make the whole hairstylefull and beautiful, so it is very popular with women. The prevailing of these buns is closely related to thecustom left by the preceding generation and the aesthetic standard of the people in Song dynasty. At thesame time, women’s hair accessory is very rich in species, in addition to the traditional hairpin, it alsoincludes crest, flowers, green or blue plume, comb,all of them are very unique.The production of rawmaterials is various, many of them are precious. All of this makes the Song Dynasty female headdressshowing the basic characteristics of luxury and versatility, reflecting women’s novel and precious aestheticmentality; women’s facial adornments includes eyebrow, dimple, lips and so on. Rouge and powder arebases of analyzing of the overall characteristics of the female face ornaments. In addition to beautify theface, some of these powders can also play an active role in skin protection. In song dynasty,the productionof cosmetics is complex,their makers are particular about the materials, revealing the high quality andexpensive characteristics of the cosmetic products. Comparing with the previous generation, women’ssurface decoration in song dynasty is not much changed in the content, but the overall style presents anelegant trend. In general, the whole characteristics of female ornaments in song dynasty are the luxurious ofheaddress and the elegant of surface decoration style, all of them are closely related to different aspects ofthe social development, especially the change of the male’s aesthetic standard, which directly impacts theoverall style of female ornaments in Song dynasty.