1, dressing table: it is the dressing table of ancient women. There is also a small drawer under the dresser for putting cosmetics such as rouge, makeup powder and eyebrow pencil, which is elegant and practical. It is also a necessary dowry for women to get married, just like a dowry.

2. Makeup: originally refers to the cosmetic box used by women to dress up. It is an ancient utensil for holding toiletries. It was first produced and popularized in the Warring States period and lasted until the Ming and Qing Dynasties with a long history.

During the Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties, most of them were lacquerware dowry, which only noble families could enjoy. After the reform in the Tang and Song Dynasties, people entered the civilian society in the Song Dynasty. While pursuing exquisite utensils, people paid more attention to practicality, which made the once prosperous Chinese lacquer casket suitable for living on the floor gradually evolve into a multi-layer sleeve casket suitable for sitting with feet down. With the great development of Ming furniture, makeup eventually evolved into large dressing tables and portable dressing boxes.

3. Flower bud: it is a kind of flower decoration on the face of ancient women. There are three colors: red, green and yellow, with red as the most. Made of gold and silver, covered on the face. It is a kind of jewelry popular in Tang Dynasty. In addition to the plum blossom shape, there are all kinds of birds, small fish and ducklings, which are very beautiful and novel.

4. Rouge box: it is a box used by women to hold rouge and powder, which is necessary for ancient women's boudoir. In the Han Dynasty, women at that time not only had a set of strict procedures for rouge making methods, usage norms and fragrance quality, but also had an almost paranoid aesthetic taste for rouge boxes. It was at this time that jade and glass rouge boxes specially used to hold rouge gouache began to appear.

After the Tang Dynasty, the materials and manufacturing techniques of rouge boxes began to undergo colorful changes. In addition to porcelain, gold-plated silver beads and jade mother-of-pearl, carved and inlaid, each takes the lead. The rouge box in the Ming and Qing Dynasties is the peak of the history of rouge boxes for thousands of years, especially the aristocratic class did everything they could to contain powder, which is obvious to all in A Dream of Red Mansions.

5. Snail: also known as "snail". It is a blue-black mineral pigment used by ancient women to thrush. Snails wear out of Persia, each worth ten gold.