Everyone has a heart for beauty, but you know what? Changsha's most famous museum has a Mawangdui Han Tomb theme exhibition, the cultural relics inside can be said to shock China and foreign countries, the most famous of which is their toiletries, very complete.
The grooming utensils excavated from the Mawangdui No. 1 and No. 3 Han tombs mainly include bronze mirrors, combs, yu, debates, tweezers, wigs, pharyngeal fats, and window boxes containing these items.
There are seven sets of grooming utensils for men and women in the tomb, and it can be seen that the tomb owner pays attention to grooming. Hundreds of pieces of clothing and clothing, including silk, yarn, luo, qi, brocade, linen and other fabrics, using printing and dyeing, printing, painting, embroidery and other decorative processes. The diverse styles of four seasons clothing, well-preserved, bright colors and exquisite craftsmanship, led the fashion of Changsha national dress and witnessed the outstanding achievements of the textile industry in the early Han Dynasty.
Compact dresser box
Cosmetics of various sizes
Copper mirror
How to pack so many makeup products? You can't just put it on the table, right? At this time, multiple sons came into being and became the earliest "packaging design" of cosmetics.
"Embroidered by the clouds" Pillow towel Xin chased the tomb out of the soldier. Covered with medicine pillows, double layers, silk "cloud embroidery" surface, surrounded by geometric velvet brocade and light yellow silk, the inner layer is plain silk. The book is recorded as "embroidered pillow towel by the clouds"
"Letter period embroidery" 'incense sachet Xin Chai tomb excavation, containing thatch incense. There are six sachets in The tomb of Xin Chai, two short and four long: the book is recorded as "smoke sac" short for carrying, in line with the ancient Chudi "day with sachet, night with incense pillow" custom; this is a long sachet, hung in the inner chamber tent, repellent insects and poisons, in line with the ancient Han Le Fu poem "Peacock Southeast Flying" "Red Luo cover bucket tent, four corners hanging sachet" record.
"Letter embroidery" 'sachet
"Longevity embroidery" medicine pillow
"LONGEVITY EMBROIDERY" MEDICINAL HERB PILLOW
Xin chased the tomb out of the soldier. The two ends are velvet brocade, the upper and lower parts are zhuyi brocade, the sides are "longevity embroidery" silk, the pillow is stuffed with spices Peran, and the book is recorded as an embroidered pillow". This is the earliest health care medicine pillow ever seen.
Such a high pillow, do not know how to sleep on it uncomfortable.
In addition, I saw a lot of accessories such as shoes and gloves.
Rhombus "dry gold" tassel (tao) gloves
Three pairs of straight, straight, finger-revealing gloves were unearthed from Xin Chai's tomb. The palm of this glove is made of vermilion diamond pattern, and the fingers and wrists are made of silk. The palm face is decorated with the seal text "A thousand golden edges for a week." The "Chronicle of History" refers to the "House of Thousands of Gold" as a rich family.
Vermilion rose silk cotton robe Xin Chai tomb excavation. Jiaoling, Right Society, Qufu. With vermilion diamond pattern as the fabric, Tai Juan as the inside, record, inner pulp silk country. The robes that are immediately connected under the tunic are widely popular among the Fei women of the early Han Dynasty.
Seeing this, are you also very interested in the life and life of the ancients? If you want to know more, you may wish to visit the Hunan Provincial Museum.