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The perfect combination of metal and feather craft.

「Full head jewelry, all over silk and satin」It is a poem praising the beauty. One of the Tracy pointed to Cui, a kind of gold and silver Todi on the carefully glued Kingfisher feather jewelry craft. Dot cui is rare in Cui Yu, it is said that a kingfisher only takes 28 feathers, and must be alive, otherwise the feathers will lose the phantom luster. Cui Yu easy with the years to eliminate the death reconciled, most of the real thing early disappeared in the history of Remembrance.

There is only one kind of jewelry in the world by the combination of life and luxury, it belongs to China, is treasured in the Forbidden City's Treasure Museum, its story allows the Palace Museum to make an exception to the visit, it is the world's jewelry history never replicable blue legend, its name is "dot Cui." This issue we take you back to swimming the long river of history, the honor to walk into the Palace Museum in Beijing and visit the Taiwan Design Master, in the long time, with the mood moved by the common search for this since the Warring States Period, has become the royal Eye of the Tiangong.

"Dream of Red mansions" has such a bridge section, a day Jia Mu saw a red gold dot cui Kirin, then reached out to pick up and play, smiled and said, "This thing seems to be I see whose children also wear one." "Reminiscent daylight, those glossy bright Cui Yu, with the glittering bottom bracket, convex edge and engraved pattern, it is how the spirit of luxury, no wonder Jia Baoyu see under, will love to collect, ready to give cousin Xiangyun."

　　

In fact, "full head jewelry, all over silk and satin", this is the ancient Chinese poetry in the beauty of the inevitable praise. Those who really shine on the sideburns side of the wonderful man, Liu Li eye-catching beads "cui", in fact, is specifically a dot cui, a kind of gold and silver Todi carefully pasted with the shape of the Kingfisher feather jewelry craft. For more than thousands of years, it has been the most important luxury strategists of aristocratic women when they decorate their grooming, because it is so sparse, so fragile, and so luxurious and unspeakable.
In the "Poultry Sutra", Zhang Hua, a scholar of Jin Dynasty, said, "Women's jewelry, its feather value is thousands of gold." "Perhaps, it is difficult for modern people to understand why this kind of jewelry made of kingfisher feathers can easily be the same as the pearl of the treasure, but if you have visited the Palace Museum in Beijing, in the moment of seeing the crown of the precious and luxurious royal family in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the bright and deep blue will surely take away your breath in an instant.

　　

In ancient times, jewelry was mostly made of gold and silver jewelry, although the brilliance is dazzling, but the color lost monotonous. As a result, the dazzling kingfisher feathers, then the grand stage of history, the ancient times of the Queen princesses, only simply put it on top of the bun. But since the warring States, skilled craftsmen began to fine kingfisher feathers along the texture, carefully affixed to gold and silver jewelry, and finally inlaid with a variety of rare beads of jade, so that the ordinary jewelry of the luxurious and rich and Cui Yu's Ming blue Liu Li perfect combination, its bright and gorgeous, indescribable, no wonder from the Tang Dynasty, the Royal Crown Instrument system , the dot Cui is regarded as an indispensable part of the emperor and the rear crown suit.

Non-replicable have legend｜
Dot Cui is expensive, in addition to the precious Todi jewelry, but also lies in the rare, Kingfisher body petite, only the size of sparrows, and those soft and bright blue feathers, only grow in the tip of the wings and the tail of the bird. In the production of Dot Cui, each kingfisher generally uses only about 28 feathers, but also must be "alive", because once the kingfisher is sick or dead, its feathers will lose that phantom luster. As a result, a small dot cui gold hairpin may have to use the feathers of several or even dozens of kingfisher; the intricate jewelry and ornaments, the dosage is difficult to count.

The royal use of the dot Cui, but only the Kingfisher head to count the brightest feathers, therefore, dot Cui may be the world's only kind of biological spirit and the beauty of utensils combined with the treasure, its value is expensive, difficult to use the usual gold and silver to measure.

The best dot cui jewelry is divided into "blue" and "turquoise" two basic colors, of which especially blue is preferred. Its color difference, mainly with the use of Cui Yu varieties and different parts of the feather related, of which to Bao Blue as the top, and according to the different technology, Dot Cui can also show banana month, lovers, deep green and other different colors, if the use of other color kingfisher feather or similar peacock feather, made of dot Cui is called "flower Cui", relatively low value.
The principle of dot Cui is simple, but it is difficult to see its whereabouts in the present. Because as early as the Ming and Qing dynasties, the best Cui Yu is extremely rare, even the Yunnan governor dedicated to the royal tributes, but also hundreds of pairs per year. And by 1933, China's last dot Cui Square has also been closed closed, because since then, dot cui cui feather bird hair has been the city, longitudinal gold is also a rare tail. Today, Kingfisher is among the highest in the country to protect animals. It is impossible to make a dot cui of its feathers to live.

The contemporary heritage of continuous drip｜
Now handed down character complete dot Cui finished products, but thousands of pieces. Because Cui Yu must be extremely careful to save, a little negligent scraping, will be incomplete damage. Thousands of years after the flip, now the market can see the dot cui, most of them are in the late Qing Dynasty, and those who once let people stunning Tang dynasty cui Tian, but can only dissipate in the fleeting moment of time, become only for the memory of the legend.

　　

And today, in addition to being able to lament the legend of Dot Cui in the museum, there is still a way to continue to contact Cui superb. As we have found in Taiwan, we find that the creative jewels of "Ming and Fools" will be the antique dot cui of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the design and manufacture of other ornaments into creative jewelry, so that the gradually silent dot cui antiques, into a combination of modern beauty and ancient history印記的完美搭配。
Therefore, please also keep in mind that those shining on the stage of the concubine Princess hair between the dynamic floating of the turquoise color, is not just a simple chai ring, they are reminiscent of a rare bird called Kingfisher, its long feather, has been China and even this world one of the most luxurious and mysterious treasures.