Supplement

Chapter 26 has enough pictures for a standalone chapter. Seriously, I don’t even know how those people put on that much jewelry and the weight of the hair … …

Chapter 26

元宝髻(yuanbaoji): it is in the shape of a sycee(kind of currency in ancient China) so this could also be called sycee knot.

头面: ornaments

A set of thirty-six pieces from the Qing Dynasty

A restored set of jade toumian

堕倭髻: douwoiji ,

A model of the official uniform of a third-grade official’s wife in the Ming Dynasty.