“Zizi”, also known as “sipping Zi” and “zhongzi”, belongs to dresser. Relevant studies are relatively mature. For example, Jia Shuai’s “study on the function of bone brush in literature and murals” has a detailed discussion. In order to explain the use of the head cylinder, a brief introduction is made to the head cylinder.

It is generally used as a long handle board brush with slightly short hair teeth. It is an appliance for combing and wiping hair with hair oil, shaving water and so on. It can also tidy hair. It is often placed in the same place as combing, grate and scraping. Its name appears later, but the corresponding function has its origin. The earliest to make a clear distinction between the brush and the brush may be the San Cai Tu Hui in the late Ming Dynasty: “the brush and the brush are similar in system. They all take the bone as the body, make up their head with hair, sweep their hair, and brush to remove tooth dirt…” the book also records its pictures, which are different from the brush.

▌ Book Shadow of “instrument volume” in “three talents map meeting”

Original edition of the 37th year of Wanli

Wanli’s “plum words in the Golden Vase”: “the Golden Lotus takes a sip next to her and sips her head with Li Ping er.”

In the Qing Dynasty, the use of Kezi remained unchanged, such as “a dream of Red Mansions”: “… The temples were a little loose, so he hurriedly opened Li Wan’s dowry, took out a sip and sipped it twice against the mirror…” it can be seen that Kezi is a tool in the dowry.

Another example is “the shadow of the dust on the sea in the sky” in the late Qing Dynasty: “… Take a picture of him and say with a smile, ‘Joan’s hair is good for me, and most of the short hair on the side is scattered.’ so he sat down at the window and called for dark incense: ‘simply take the toilet bowl and sip it for me.’ dark incense took it with a smile and wiped the garosham for him first, then sip it with him and put the flowers on for him.” This describes in detail the use process of chizi.

The book was written at the end of the 18th century, and Zhongying Nakagawa’s Qing customs chronicle also published the image of Koizumi. Although it should be copied from the painting of three talents, it may also show that Koizumi’s shape did not change greatly in the Qing Dynasty. Compare the tooth handle brush of the old collection of the Imperial Palace in Beijing with the picture, we can see that it is the brush of hair.

In the Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties, there are records of the making office making oysters. For example, in September of the seventh year of Yongzheng (1729): “on the sixth day of the first day of the lunar new year, it was posted by the Yuanmingyuan, which is internally known as the doctor Haiwang Chuan. It is made of nine pieces: comb, grate, purgative, brushing teeth… For the future use of Prince Yi Fujin (Jin). Remember this.” The assorted combs made of boxwood and ivory collected by the palace museum can also be compared with the names recorded in the archives of the manufacturing office.

▌ chronicles of Qing customs, published in the 11th year of kuanzheng

▌ the tooth handle of the Palace Museum

▌ boxwood assorted brocade comber box in the National Palace Museum

The head cylinder should be matched with the head cylinder. Because it needs to be dipped in head oil or shaving water, especially shaving water, when using it, it should be dipped and filled. For example, Fu Jinghua recorded the use of shaving water for Manchu women in Hohhot new town in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China: “soak elm shavings into water, dip a small brush into the temples of your hair, and take the water with elm glue, so that your hair looks black and bright and your hair is regular.” Therefore, the head cylinder should be used as a container for head oil, shaving water, etc.

Japanese Aoki Zhenger’s “Atlas of Beijing Customs” describes the scenes of life in the late Qing Dynasty and related utensils. There is a picture of “dressing utensils” in it. The picture is put on a small round jar, which is worth noting.

▌ the book shadow of Aoki Zhenger’s Manual of Beijing Customs shows his son and his head jar

However, according to the current data, the word “head cylinder” did not appear until the 19th century. It is far from the starting time of the word “Jizi”. One of the conjectures could not be found out because of another name. For example, in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the head jar was also known as the “shaving jar”. For example, Xie Puchao said: “but the thing she left in her hand has already been beaten into 408 pieces. It’s not a shaving jar, but a mirror.” Second, because the function of the head jar did not emphasize the specificity of the utensils, utensils specially used for matching the head jar were not developed until the late Qing Dynasty.

▌ [Qing Dynasty · Tongzhi] yellow ground alum red painted hundred bat cylinder

❖ this article is selected from the article “skim hair and Ze briefly on the” head jar “in Tongzhi wedding porcelain” in the 10th issue of collection magazine in 2021. Please pay more attention to the current magazine.