<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > preamble</h1>
A soldier dies for a confidant, and a woman is for herself. It can be said that how many women will dress themselves at all costs in order to get the hearts of the male gods in their hearts, buy clothes that change their appearance, change their heads, and even throw heavy money to plastic surgery. Born beautiful can also save some money, smear a little rouge can conquer the eyes of the male god, and born but can not have a good embryo, is to work hard to improve their appearance, attract the opposite sex.
No matter what era the woman came from, in her heart, she hoped that the person she cared about could pay attention to herself, but in the feudal era of male cultivation and female weaving, women did not have beautiful clothes, no plastic surgery, what did they use to obtain the love code? That is the second face of the woman, the slender hand, with a pair of slender hands, which is also a symbol of beauty. As a result, ancient women cherished their hands, and armor and nail dyeing gradually became a common thing for women in boudoir. So, what are the ways ancient women do nail art? Leaving aside the aesthetics of the time, for whom would ancient women grow and dye their armor? In fact, ancient women left nails, not only for themselves, but also for family affection and love.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >, the nail art you are doing now has long been popular in the "circle of friends" of ancient women</h1>
Whether it is a woman with a meticulous and tasteful life, a careful observation of her hands can tell that the hands are the second face of the woman, and the nails are the most important part of the hands. I don't know when it started, making a manicure has become a fashion. For modern women, the temptation to do nail art is irresistible. Not only modern, but also in ancient times, you will also see that nail art has become popular thousands of years ago, so what are the ways that ancient women did nail art?
01. Armor - the "careful machine" of ancient women showing their slender hands
Speaking of long nails, it is inevitable to think of the dancer Yang Liping, she is a person who loves art, in order to achieve beauty and agility effect, she has left long nails, each length is about three centimeters. For working women, long nails are a distraction to life, because many things cannot be done. But for everyone,those who leave a long fingernail in one hand from an aesthetic point of view can make their hands slender and beautiful.
When I have long hair and waist, the moon is high and the spring is cold, it seems that long hair has become a symbol of the love story, and the ancient woman's long nails are also very exquisite, in addition to expressing noble and cold and expressing the meaning of love, if you cut your own nails to him, it means that you can abandon everything for him now. For example, in "Dream of the Red Chamber", Qingwen gave him fingernails when she confessed to Baoyu. In ancient times, a woman's long armor was the same as her long hair, which was a very important thing in her life.
In ancient times, long nails could only be done by rich women, because the small family jasper did not have time to fiddle with it, even if they left long nails, they did not take a few days to do some physical work to break, and broken nails were considered ominous omens in ancient times. Therefore, most of the people with long nails are those delicate and crying ladies. And women of low status, if they really like it, they will stay a little longer, but what should be considered is not to affect the work.
The last dynasty was also a fashion-oriented dynasty, and in that era, long nail lengths were also very widespread. Don't look at the Qing Dynasty is a closed dynasty to the outside, but the inside and outside of the dynasty is very lively, what kind of new things are popular in the palace, soon in the folk will be circulated, therefore, long nails, at that time slowly evolved into a status symbol. To say who is the first nail queen of the Qing Dynasty, of course, is Empress Dowager Cixi, she is a very tasteful empress, spending a lot of time to decorate herself. Take her seven-inch nails, soaked in warm water for half an hour every day, and then have someone to repair her, really love beauty in all aspects.
02. Nail dyeing - there was also "nail polish" in ancient times, there is always a kind of suitable for you!
For women who came from the countryside in the 1980s, there will be such an experience, crushed with a flower and wrapped in cloth on the nail cover, and after half an hour or so, the nails will turn red. This was a self-created nail dyeing method created by rural people who had not seen nail polish under the conditions at that time. It is said that it is a self-created method, but in fact, it has been handed down for many years.
It is said that in ancient times, women also dyed their nails, but they were called "Kodan", that is, they were colored with brightly colored red flowers. Slender hands with red nails, irresistible charm.
As early as around 3000 BC, there were aristocratic women who mixed rubber, protein, white gelatin and beeswax into a light lacquer on their nails.
By the Shang and Zhou dynasties, as gold and silver had become the symbol colors of the noble princes, women began to incorporate metal powder into the lacquer to show their unparalleled power.
03. Finger sleeves – put "armor" on your nails
Watching the costume drama, I think that in addition to the costume matching and the beautiful woman's appearance, the long ornaments on the feminine fingers are also very eye-catching, and it is a nail cover! Also known as the Golden Drive. This nail cover is not exquisite, how to wear how to wear a few, wear a few, as you like. Wear a sharp weapon that is both beautiful and the idle and boring palace ladies fighting each other.
Since the nail set is an indispensable jewelry in the palace, the makers will make great efforts to study it, and in the early days, they started from many aspects such as materials and styles to make a variety of nail sets. After all, people's thinking and production tools are limited, most of the materials made before are gold, silver, copper and iron, and the style is single, which is smooth and the surface shape is curved and slender, and the disadvantage is that it looks more clumsy. Later, the makers innovated, decorating the surface of the nail sleeve with various patterns, as well as high-grade inlaid with expensive materials such as jewelry and jade. In this way, the times are changing nail sets are also becoming more and more beautiful.
The earliest nail cover found is the antlered armor in the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, and later unearthed a single piece of golden finger guard, the nail cover is made of a piece of metal bent, spiraling from its roots, the advantage of this type of nail set is the average size, how big your fingers I am how big the nail cover, universal, completely match you. From the excavated cultural relics, we can see that ancient women regarded nails as treasures, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, women's nails and finger protectors were very popular. Chen Peizhi of the Qing Dynasty mentioned nails when mourning his concubines. His concubine Prince Lan, Zi Xiang, was dignified and virtuous, and talented. Pei Zhi affectionately called her "Zi Ji", her fingers were slender, her nails were several inches long, and she was very cherished. Before she had to work, she had to wear nail covers to protect her nails. When she was about to die, she asked her to cut off her fingernails and treasure them in a wooden box for her husband. It can be seen that nails are so precious in the hearts of ancient women.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >2, for whom do women keep their nails? </h1>
The nails are long, for whom to keep it, the following are the answers.
01. Affection – Parents who receive it do not dare to be hurt
In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there is a story about Xiahou Huan, he was shot in the eye by Cao Sex in a battle, he pulled out the arrow eyeballs also came out, he picked it up and ate it, hearing this, we felt that this person was really mad and ate everything, but he thought that everything on his body was given by his parents, and he must not abandon it, and loving the body is to love his parents. This ideology and concept that the remains of parents do not dare to be damaged directly affected the ancient people's practice of storing armor and armor. But any matter that has a family affection card, as a Son or Daughter of China, will not deliberately avoid or break it, because this is our traditional virtue, filial piety is the first, so although the nails are inconspicuous, if the protection is not good, in the eyes of the ancients, it is a great rebellion, not a descendant. Therefore, the ancients cherished nails as if they cherished life, people are in the nails, and people's nails are left behind. For the cut nails, the ancients did not give up and throw them away, and they may be buried in the soil. Zhang Junfang of the Song Dynasty once recorded: "As long as it is cut off hair and nails." They must be buried, and they should not be thrown in the water or burned in the fire. If abandoned, it is disrespectful to parents, and at night, it is possible to be taken away by a harrier and hurt people's souls." Therefore, the ancients kept them very well.
02. Love – important emotions
"May the heart of one person be won, and the white head will not be separated," love is a very wonderful thing. No matter what era, love never leaves. In order to express their loyalty to love, men and women always like to send love objects to show their sincerity. In modern times, women send men watches to confess, men send cups to women, hoping to live with you for a lifetime, and the moment when they are about to enter the marriage hall, they will send diamond fingers, diamond rings are eternal, a forever, and the meaning is so far-reaching. In ancient times, did you know what kind of promises women would send? That's nails, and giving them away means giving your life to you. Chao Cai, a Tang Dynasty woman, fell in love with wenmao, a scholar next door, and privately engaged herself in life, and wrote poems to express her love for him: "The window makes jade fingers, and the nails are like crystals." Cut the special messenger, talk about when hand in hand."
03. Aesthetics - white, long, and pointed have become aesthetic standards
Bai Fumei and Tu Fat, these two network words, divide women into two different styles of people, whether they are temperamental beauties or ordinary women, a few words can be summarized. And the ancients summed up the beauty and ugliness of women's nails very brilliantly. To describe the white and tender fingers of women, they will say that "the hands are like soft, the skin is like gelatin, the collar is like a cockroach, and the teeth are like a rhinoceros." To describe the beautiful fingers, they will say "spring onion jade fingers like orchids, three inches of golden lotus like a yuan treasure", describe the woman's fingers long and pointed "wrist white skin red jade shoot buds, tuning the piano draw line exposed tip oblique". So the ancients directly summarized beautiful fingers as white, pointed, and long.
Slender nails are good-looking, but that is something that only a lady of a rich family can enjoy, and as for the women of the poor people's families, they only have the envy of it, because labor does not allow you to have the capital of beauty.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, conclusion</h1>
People, animals, have nails, but in the eyes of modern people, it is also a tiny carapace. Tools to help us do things. However, you don't understand the mind of the ancients, in their eyes, although the nails are inconspicuous, only square inches, they love them as much as they want, because in their hearts, this is not only the nails, but the nurturing feelings of her soul mate and parents.
Nails, no longer ordinary things, everyone has a part of the body, modern society pays attention to hygiene slogan is to cut nails diligently, the body is good, the ancients are like a treasure, very exaggerated care of it, in their view, if anyone does not care about it, it is a blasphemy of love, disrespect for family affection. Whoever cuts it and throws it away, there will be an ominous omen, it turns out that the nails of the past really have a lot of doorways!