With the popularity of various Qing Palace dramas, the audience is very happy to watch, and thus also have a certain understanding of the living habits of the Qing Dynasty, but after watching the drama, some people have raised a question: Why do concubines wear nail sets on their hands? Although this looks good, it really won't be inconvenient? In fact, there is only one purpose for doing so, and the truth is speechless.
Why the harem women of the Qing Dynasty wore long nail covers for everyone turned out to be this reason. Some time ago, when I saw the palace drama, I found such a phenomenon, that is, the concubines in the harem in the original Qing Dynasty, they basically each wore an extremely luxurious armor suit on their hands.
Perhaps if you look at it now, if you wear such armor on weekdays, it is actually very influential to work and do things, but in general, Qingfei's nails do look very harmonious with Manchu costumes, so why do women in the deep palace wear such nails?
In fact, as early as the Ming and Qing dynasties, some men of the high-ranking officials and nobles would deliberately keep long nails in order to reflect their status, and by the way, add the habitual action of the nobles: playing with bracelets. In this way, it reflects that their lives are well-deserved, and there is no opportunity to work at all.
Later, women also began to grow long nails, at first it was also to please the husband, after all, it seems that the fingers are long and good-looking, but the nails are more fragile and easy to break, they thought of nail covers, so the nail covers were born to protect the nails.
But slowly this workmanship is also very exquisite, raw materials are also gold and silver, enamel, etc., there are many patterns, the things on the top are also very complex, with the noble status, raw materials, length and workmanship are also different, the more noble the identity, the more superior the nail cover, the value is not cheap, so the nail cover has also become a symbol of identity status.
Later, when it came to the Ming and Qing dynasties, some literati would also keep such long nails to show their noble status, and it was mentioned in the book "Han Feizi" that most of the courtiers in Korea had such a long nail piece to highlight their prominent position!
Immediately after that, many women began to imitate this move, in fact, the reason why women in our country will have long armor is mainly to imitate the habits of men! Especially coupled with the fact that Chinese women believe that the length of the finger finger is the biggest symbol of beauty, such as the description of Liu Lanzhi's hand in the "Peacock Southeast Flying", and the description of the beautiful hand of Yunjiang Zhuang in the "Book of Poetry", it is even more de facto that historians found after excavating Han tombs that the original armor first originated in the Han Dynasty!
In addition, as for the difference between the graphics and the color on the armor, the more luxurious the materials made under normal circumstances, it shows that the concubines wearing armor have a higher status, and the most obvious thing is that during cixi's reign, the empress dowager had a clear rule, that is, the length of all women's armor cannot be longer than hers!
Lin Lin's various exquisiteness, whether it is nail covers or earrings or headdresses, all reflect the difference in identity and status, these different treatments also "inspire" the concubines to climb up, then it is only natural to stage a palace fight drama every day, the women are all showing their skills, calculating others when the wisdom has also reached its peak, taking turns every day, with the dream of starring, staged a scene of drama.