{"id":334,"date":"2023-05-04T01:11:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T17:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/?p=334"},"modified":"2024-08-23T13:48:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T05:48:37","slug":"wangjin-%e7%bd%91%e5%b7%be-ming-dynasty-net-headwear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/334","title":{"rendered":"Wangjin \u7f51\u5dfe, Ming Dynasty Net Headwear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><div style=\"width: 590px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-334-1\" width=\"590\" height=\"1049\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/zhangruying-Wangjin-\u7f51\u5dfe-Ming-Dynasty-Net-Headwear-2.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/zhangruying-Wangjin-\u7f51\u5dfe-Ming-Dynasty-Net-Headwear-2.mp4\">https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/zhangruying-Wangjin-\u7f51\u5dfe-Ming-Dynasty-Net-Headwear-2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>\n<p><\/center>Wangjin (Chinese: \u7f51\u5dfe ; pinyin: w\u01ceng j\u012bn) is a net headwear worn by adult males to wrap their hair, and Wangjin is one of the symbols of the Ming dynasty costume and headwear system.<\/p>\n<p>Wangjin is usually made of silk net, has a kind of small rings (called Guanzi) on either side of the ear.<\/p>\n<p>It is said that the origin of Wangjin is that Ming Taizu (Zhu Yuanzhang) saw a Taoist priest with Wangjin wrapped around his head, and asked the Taoist priest. The Taoist answered the function and meaning of Wangjin: \u201cIt\u2019s called Wangjin. Wrap it around your head, and all your hair will be neat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Satisfied with what it meant \u2018world unification\u2019, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the entire country, regardless of occupation, that adult men must wear the Wangjin and not disobey the order.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Wangjin formed a complete industry during the Ming dynasty.<\/p>\n<p>Wangjin was generally woven with black silk, horsetail, brown silk, and other materials, and became with human hair and horsehair in the Wanli period.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/zhangruying-Wangjin-\u7f51\u5dfe-Ming-Dynasty-Net-Headwear-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/zhangruying-Wangjin-\u7f51\u5dfe-Ming-Dynasty-Net-Headwear-3.jpg\" alt=\"Zhang Ruying - Wangjin \u7f51\u5dfe, Ming Dynasty Net Headwear - 3\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/zhangruying-Wangjin-\u7f51\u5dfe-Ming-Dynasty-Net-Headwear-3.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/zhangruying-Wangjin-\u7f51\u5dfe-Ming-Dynasty-Net-Headwear-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/zhangruying-Wangjin-\u7f51\u5dfe-Ming-Dynasty-Net-Headwear-3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/zhangruying-Wangjin-\u7f51\u5dfe-Ming-Dynasty-Net-Headwear-3-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adult men who did not wear a Wangjin were considered \u201cuncivilized\u201d tramps, and men would wrap their heads in Wangjin during the coronation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Influenced by the Ming dynasty crown (headwear) system, countries such as Korea, Vietnam, and the Ryukyu Kingdom also used Wangjin.<\/p>\n<h4>Origin<\/h4>\n<p>Wangjin is a kind of net cover that was originally a Taoist garment and is mostly made of cloth and silk as the end of the net.<\/p>\n<p>There was a pair of metal rings on the side, and a silk rope of suitable thickness was used for tying.<\/p>\n<h4>Use<\/h4>\n<p>When wearing it, you only need to open the net mouth and cover it on your head, put all your hair into the net, and pull the rope closer.<\/p>\n<p>At the top of the Wangjin, there is a small hole, which is used for the hair bun.<\/p>\n<h4>Meaning<\/h4>\n<p>The Ming dynasty people gave it the cultural meaning of \u2018unifying the world\u2019, \u2018unifying the mountains and rivers\u2019, and \u2018unifying the harmony of the heavens\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wangjin (Chinese: \u7f51\u5dfe ; pinyin: w\u01ceng j\u012bn) is a net headwear worn by adult males to wrap their hair, and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440,12,15],"tags":[19,22,25,49,34,26,274,28,121,29,600,179,407,408,409],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animation-illustration","category-hanfu-accessories","category-history-culture","tag-animation","tag-chinese-accessories","tag-chinese-headdress","tag-chinese-headwear","tag-digital-illustration","tag-hanfu-accessories","tag-hanfu-crown","tag-headdress","tag-headwear","tag-illustration","tag-ming-dynasty","tag-ming-dynasty-headwear","tag-net-headwear","tag-wangjin","tag-409"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zhangruying.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}