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Those beautiful royal treasures~
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The Spring Festival Gala "New Year's Brocade" makes people marvel at the beauty of Hanfu again, the subtlety of traditional patterns, and the aesthetics that have been inherited for 5,000 years, which is really worth exploring.
In the past, I have seen so many crowns, jewels and dresses of royal families from all over the world, and now I will take a good look at our own national treasure~
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Compared with the crowns of the royal concubines of various countries, if you really want to talk about the complexity of the craftsmanship, the brilliant colors, and the immeasurable value, I am afraid that you still have to look at the phoenix crowns of the ancient Chinese concubines.
Filial piety of the queen's six dragons and three phoenix crowns & nine dragon and nine phoenix crowns
The twelve dragons and nine phoenix crowns of Empress Xiaojing
【Ming Xiao Duanxian Queen, Nine Dragons and Nine Phoenix Crowns】
It is now in the collection of the National Museum
For example, one of the treasures of the National Museum, the phoenix crown of the queen of filial piety, the nine dragons and nine phoenixes, standing with beads, and the jewels centered on the red sapphires in the three rows below complement each other.
It is embedded with 115 pieces of natural rubies, 4414 pearls, and also uses a large number of filigree, dotted emerald, inlay, wearing and other top dazzling techniques of the Celestial Empire, which is beautiful and incalculable.
The owner of this phoenix crown is Empress Xiaoduanxian, the original wife of Mingshenzong Wanli.
Her real name is Sister Wang Xi, when she was 13 years old, she stood out in the selection of concubines prepared by the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces with her outstanding beauty, married Wanli and was canonized as the queen, the longest reigning queen in the history of the Celestial Empire, and ruled the middle palace for 42 years.
The queen had no children in her life and only gave birth to a princess, but the emperor and queen were in deep love. (Although it seems that Wanli pampers Zheng Guifei more.) ）
One year, Kunning Palace and Qianqing Palace were destroyed by fire, and Wanli simply moved to Qixiang Palace with the queen and queen, you must know that there is no precedent for the emperor and queen to live in the same palace in the Ming Dynasty.
And this residence is more than 20 years, until the queen died of illness, Wanli moved back to the Qianqing Palace that had been rebuilt long ago.
A portrait of the queen wearing this phoenix crown
Spend money on Queen Wang, and Wanli is never stingy.
Because of the fire, the queen's jewels and robes were destroyed, and Tobe Shangshu proposed to use the jewelry that had been paid tribute to the inner treasury in previous years to make new ones for the queen, but Wanli disagreed, and specifically asked all the people to purchase new gemstones.
Five days after her death, Wanli fell ill, but she was still very concerned about the preparations for the queen's funeral. More than 100 days later, Wanli also died.
The emperor and queen were buried together in Dingling, and this Nine Dragons and Nine Phoenix Crowns were unearthed in Dingling.
【Empress Ming Xiaojing, Three Dragons and Two Phoenix Crowns】
The crown of the golden dragon and phoenix is dotted with emerald inlaid beads
It is now in the collection of the Treasure Hall of the Forbidden City
A total of 4 phoenix crowns were unearthed in Dingling, in addition to the nine dragons and nine phoenix crowns above, there is also a crown of three dragons and two phoenixes in the Treasure Hall of the Forbidden City.
This phoenix crown is also related to Wanli, because its owner is Wanli's imperial concubine Wang, but she has never worn this phoenix crown once.
This Wang family was selected to enter the palace in the year of the wedding between Queen Wang and Wanli, and became a palace maid in Cining Palace. Three years later, she was unexpectedly pregnant by the young Wanli.
But Wanli didn't want to admit it, and in the end it was the queen mother who made the master, and after the Wang family gave birth to the emperor's eldest son, she was named Concubine Gong.
But Wanli thought that she was born low, and she never waited to see their mother and son, and even didn't let them meet. Wang, who lived in the deep palace, was blind before his death, and died at the age of 46, and the funeral was also very simple.
And although her son Mingguangzong ascended the throne, he took the red pill to help him mingle with 8 beautiful girls, and after only 29 days of reign, he followed his father Wanli and went to see the ancestor.
In the end, it was the eldest grandson of the Wang family, who was obsessed with carpentry carving, Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao, who succeeded to the throne and posthumously named her the Empress Dowager of Xiaojing and moved to Dingling for burial. And this crown of three dragons and two phoenixes is speculated to be made up by Zhu Youxiao for his grandmother.
The phoenix crown is decorated with 3 dragons and 2 phoenixes, ruyi clouds, and 18 plum blossoms made of pearls and gemstones, and a total of 3,426 large and small pearls, 59 rubies, 33 sapphires, and 2 pale yellow corundums are very gorgeous.
There is a valuation that says three dragons and two phoenixes, more than 1.2 billion.
It's just that no matter how rich the burial is, no matter how noble the nickname, it can't make up for the cold reception in the deep palace for decades......
Two girls surnamed Wang of the same age entered the palace in the same year, one was the queen of the middle palace, and the other was the abandoned concubine of the cold palace, but they were buried with the king in Dingling after their deaths. And their stories of honor or misery, 400 years later, can only be told to the world by their still beautiful phoenix crowns~
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The queen's phoenix crown is the culmination of the craftsmanship of the time, and the golden hairpin of the princess of the Ming Dynasty can be said to push the craftsmanship of gold jewelry to the extreme, which is breathtaking.
The peony flower golden hairpin unearthed from the tomb of King Liangzhuang
It is now in the collection of Hubei Provincial Museum
【Lifeng Golden Hairpin】
It is now in the collection of the National Museum
Zhu Houye, the king of Yizhuang in the Ming Dynasty, was just one of the countless cousins of Emperor Jiajing, and he was a vassal king with not very strong financial resources, but the princess's head unearthed in his tomb in the southwest city of Jiangxi was enough to shock the world.
For example, this Lifeng golden hairpin, 22.3 centimeters long and weighing 75.7 grams, is made of extremely fine gold wires. The golden phoenix stands on the auspicious clouds, fluttering its wings and about to fly, and the phoenix tail fluttering, which is really amazing.
And such a golden phoenix hairpin is still a pair.
【Pavilion character golden hairpin】
It is now in the collection of the National Museum
However, the step-concubine Wan of Yizhuang has a whole set of more unique pavilion characters golden hairpins.
The head of the golden hairpin is three pavilions side by side, which are arc-shaped, surrounded by guardrails, and are inlaid with gold flowers on the tired silk clouds. The pavilion is divided into upper and lower floors, the heavy eaves roof, the staggered fall, and the bottom floor pavilion is divided into 3 rooms.
There are also three people in the middle pavilion, with different postures.
This golden hairpin is 5.1cm high, 9.8cm wide, weighs 91 grams, and is carved between square inches.
This set of attic character golden hairpins, a total of 9 pieces, all of which are exquisite, make up a complete set of heads.
After looking at these 3D golden hairpins, do you think that the golden flower crown and 22 gold bracelets worn by the princess of Brunei at her wedding are not so fragrant?
Some film and television dramas have also imitated this set of golden hairpins with great care, but the modern craftsmanship is too ingenious, and it is far less agile than the handmade by the ancients.
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How good is the aesthetics of our ancients? Let me show you two necklaces.
【Gold necklace with pearls and gemstones】
It is now in the collection of the National Museum
This pearl-inlaid gemstone gold necklace of the Sui Dynasty more than 1,400 years ago is known as "the most exquisite necklace in the history of Chinese archaeology", and many people still try to reproduce it today.
The necklace has 28 gold beads, each of which is inlaid with 10 pearls;
At the upper end of the neck is a lapis lazuli engraved with a flower horn deer, and the necklace pendant at the bottom is a huge ruby with 24 pearls embedded around it, and a drop-shaped sapphire up to 3.1cm is pendant, which is gorgeous and dazzling, and it is unforgettable.
And the story behind this necklace is also very embarrassing, its owner, called Li Jingxun, the word child, and his maternal grandmother is Yang Lihua, who changed from the queen of the Northern Zhou Dynasty to the princess of the Sui Dynasty.
Yang Lihua has only one daughter, so she loves this granddaughter very much, and she took her to the palace to raise her personally when she was a child. But unfortunately, Li died at the age of 9.
Yang Lihua was heartbroken and buried Li Child unusually, and the gorgeousness of her funeral goods was comparable to that of the emperor and queen.
In addition to this necklace, Li Xiaozi's gold bracelet and gold and silver bead flower headdress have also attracted many people to reproduce.
In particular, this gold and silver bead flower headdress is somewhat similar to the gold headdress of the Queen of Denmark.
【Blue Tourmaline Morning Pearl】
It is now in the collection of Liaoning Provincial Museum
This girl's heart-bursting pearl, who would have thought that it was worn by Emperor Jiaqing's imperial guards
There are a total of 108 blue tourmalines in the morning pearl, and every 27 blue tourmalines are inserted into a slightly larger pink tourmaline, called the split pearl or Buddha head, and the morning pearl is divided into 4 sections, symbolizing the four seasons.
There are also three strings of small beads on both sides, called "commemoration"; there are two strings on the left, one on the right for men, two on the right for men, two on the right, and one on the left for women; and one string hanging on the back, called "back clouds".
That's right, this kind of jewelry wearing the back of the game, the West has Sutol necklaces, our Qing Dynasty has back clouds, and the palace concubines and ministers said that this is all daily OOTD.
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If you have jewelry, you will naturally have splendid clothes to match.
You don't need to sacrifice any Changle Mingguang brocade, or Dunhuang group patterns, any palace dress in the Forbidden City in the late Qing Dynasty, don't you have to kill the big name Gaoding?
【Cixi Silk Phoenix Robe】
It is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
In the 2023 exhibition "Late Qing Dynasty" at the British Museum, this Cixi phoenix robe borrowed from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is amazing.
The phoenix wears the peony, the peacock opens the screen, and the 10,000-character wishful pattern ...... The use of intangible cultural heritage silk technology is complex and harmonious, gorgeous and fine.
The pink, purple and indigo-based color scheme, delicate and bright, weakens the sense of heaviness brought by this extreme wealth, and the aesthetics and superb skills of Chinese haute couture are still gorgeous after a hundred years of circulation.
And this is just one of the inconspicuous pieces of Cixi's regular clothes, and it is said that she changes 10 sets of clothes every day......
【Jiaqing Twelve Chapters Dragon Pattern Robe】
It is now in the collection of the British Museum
Even more ornate than the phoenix robe is Jiaqing's twelve chapters of dragon pattern robe, which is the emperor's exclusive costume.
What are the 12 chapters? The sun, the moon, the stars, the mountains, the dragon, and the Chinese insects are called the first six chapters, and the Zongyi, algae, fire, powdered rice, yellow, and yellow are called the next six chapters.
These patterns, densely and orderly arranged on the dragon robe, can be called the pinnacle of maximal aesthetics.
Before Hong Kong socialite Xie Lingling went to the British Museum to see the exhibition, she posted a photo with this dragon robe.
The value of the dragon robe can be compared with the 2 pieces that Christie's once auctioned, how can any big-name haute couture be compared?
This Jiaqing imperial silk silk dragon twelve-chapter dragon robe sold for $756,500 (about 5.44 million yuan) at auction in 2018.
In 2019, this 12-chapter dragon robe embroidered on yellow ground and colored clouds and gold dragon patterns in the late Qianlong and early Jiaqing dynasties was sold at Christie's Paris for 586,000 euros (about 4.55 million yuan).
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