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Tang dynasty women hairstyle. The preferred hairstyle for women was to bunch their hair up like an elaborate edifice above the forehead while affluent ladies wore extravagant head ornaments combs. Also the pattern on their forehead are not traditionally drawn they are little gelatin stickers called hua dian 花钿 where you peel one off and blow warm air on it to make it sticky and then just paste it on the forehead carefully. Ji髻 refers to any hairstyle involving pulling hair on top of the head.

What you would call the accessory would be determined by its position in the topknot. Attributed to Zhou Fang active late 8thearly 9th century Ladies Wearing Flowers in Their Hair handscroll ink and color on silk 46 x 180 cm Liaoning Provincial Museum Shenyang province China. Dangling hoops 垂练髻 Splitting the hair into two on each side of the head and then folded up and tied with knots.

Popular among Middle Tang young girls. When it came to Tang and Song dynasties. Hair Adornment of Ancient Chinese Women.

Women in Tang Dynasty always combed their hair into a bun and then put the bun on the top of the head or tied behind the head. During the Tang dynasty women used to wear more than 30 kinds of bun. Middle Tang 766835 dynasty attendant.

Here are a round-up of some of Tang imperial fashion a la The Em. May 2 2014 - 中国台湾网是中央台办和国台办管理的国家重点新闻网站拥有庞大的涉台资源全面报道台湾事务和两岸关系的重要新闻资讯致力于传播两岸亲情沟通两岸民意服务两岸交流是两岸网络信息枢纽和同胞交流互动平台. Hairpins and other implements were used to construct the elaborate hair arrangement.

Gold comb with children at play and flower and bird Shanghai Guanfu Museum. More elaborate versions from the Tang Dynasty 618-907 CE included wigs ornamental combs pins and even fresh flowers. Hair gathered onto the crown in a tall topknot might be secured by a zan 簪 the more ornate cousin of the ji.