Sketch: Luoyang City, Tang Dynasty Women’s Hair Crowns

In the High Tang period, women prized tall, towering hair buns, often using wigs (called “yiji” or false buns) or wooden/paper padding to stack their hair into exaggerated heights, creating styles like the “Eji” (towering bun) or “Jinghu Ji” (startled swan bun).

Hair crowns were often paired with these high buns, either covering the bun or crafted directly from gold/silver wire, pearls, and jade.

During the prosperous Silk Road era of the High Tang, foreign cultural elements from Persia and Sogdiana blended into hair crown designs, incorporating Western Region motifs like linked pearl patterns and scrolling vine patterns, as well as the “curled-brim open crown” popular among Hu (Central Asian) women.

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