First couple
The ancients used their hair to express lovesickness, and the comb used to comb their hair has also become a token of love between men and women. In ancient my country, giving a comb meant a private order for life, and you wanted to grow old together with you.
Give good wishes
In addition, in ancient times, before a woman got married, her family had the custom of combing her hair.Although it is not always performed today, it is a lovely ritual that got special meaning. The night before the wedding, the bride is supposed to bathe and then take a seat in front of lit candles. Her hair is combed four times by her mother.
It is considered to be fortunate in life. The first combing symbolizes “from beginning to end”. The second means“harmony form youth though old”which is followed by the third combing with a wish for many grandchildren. And it ends up with the fourth combing offers hope for wealth and a happily-ever-after marriage. Isn’t it sweet?
The legend of Fonlet’s comb
There is an old and beautiful legend about the founding of the comb and the origin of civilization.
“The Book of Han” records: Fonlet, Huangdi Concubine, born Xuanzi, is the Qing Yang. Fang Lei, an extraordinary woman in Chinese history, made an important contribution to our Chinese nation by inventing the comb.
In the ancient civilization of China, the tribal alliance leader Xuan Regulus Yellow Emperor of a princess named Fang Lei, she is to create the Chinese phoenix totem of the Yellow Emperor eldest son — Xuanzi’s mother, is a noble and elegant, kind wisdom of the princess. At that time, when humans just passed the primitive barbaric century of eating hair and drinking blood, entering the ancient civilization, the image of shapely hair was actually inappropriate. Princess Fonlet asked more than 20 women in the palace to smooth the shapely hair with their fingers, but they often broke their fingers.
One year, there was a flood in the Yellow River basin, and the Di, who had invented a boat for the Yellow Emperor, scooped up 19 big fish from the flood and brought them back to the tribe. Fang Lei and others cooked the big fish on a SLATE heated with firewood, which was very delicious. After eating the bones of the big fish, they piled them on the ground, and Fang Lei picked up one of them, broke a section and combed the long hair that hung on his shoulders. She didn’t know why her long, unkempt hair was smoothed away with fish bones, so she stored them away.
A dream
What could replace the fish bone, Fonlet wondered? One day she met Sleeping, who was a carpenter to Regulus the Yellow Emperor. She took out the fishbones and asked Sleeping to make a handful of wooden fishbones in the shape of the fishbones. When Sleeping showed the wooden fishbones to Faunlet, Faunlet laughed. It turned out that she wanted him to make a comb for hair according to the shape of fish bones. Sleeping hurried back to discuss with the carpenters. Finally, they made a fine wood comb out of wood according to the princess’s requirements overnight.
This is exactly what she wanted to comb the hair with the comb, Fonlet’s immediately called the women in the palace with the comb comb, soon they combed the long hair, both comfortable and convenient, we are very fond of this comb, love it, Fonlet’s comb and use the comb to pull up different hairstyles for them, all appear beautiful and exquisite, to achieve an unprecedented dressing effect, She immediately asked sleep to make more comb, and soon the comb spread in the palace and tribal alliance, people are very fond of, praise the wisdom of the princess, and even regulus the great prime minister of the yellow Emperor, military family style, are required to use the general, soldiers with a comb comb neat hair, in order to facilitate the war.
Since then, the era of grooming civilization in which the Chinese nation used and inherited combs began.
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