"Once the magnificence of money piled up becomes an aesthetic embarrassment, this is undoubtedly an aesthetic embarrassment! ". In terms of aesthetics, many people will always fall into an awkward misunderstanding. Many people often connect luxurious beauty with money. Money is certainly an important "material" in aesthetic luxury, , but its role is not as important as imagined.
The royal crowns of various countries are undoubtedly a "feast of beauty" . When seeing the royal crowns of various countries on TV, books, and the Internet, many people were amazed. The crowns of ancient dynasties in my country also fully express the beauty of classical art.
In recent decades, those crown auctions that are so beautiful that they have been auctioned at sky-high prices. However, the crown of the Japanese royal family seems to be a "partner".
various complaints about the Japanese royal crown can be described as "various crooked buildings" online. In terms of crown, the Japanese royal family is also very willing to spend money. The crown that can be used for millions of dollars, but because of its "severe homogeneity" shape and the "inconsistent temperament" of the crown and the royal members, it has become a "high imitation" in the eyes of many people.
The Japanese royal family looked westward and
Check the history of the Japanese royal family, and many people found that there was no historical record of the royal family wearing a crown before the Meiji Restoration . The time when the Japanese royal family officially included the crown as "royal specialty" was after the Meiji Restoration.
Before the Meiji Restoration, Japan was also "pressed and rubbed hard by Western powers" like Qing Dynasty . Unlike the Qing Dynasty who continued to "pretend to sleep," the Japanese royal family and the elites of the country began to face up to their own problems.
So there was a Meiji Restoration that comprehensively learned from the West. Meiji Restoration was much bigger than the reform steps of the Qing Dynasty's "change soup but not the medicine" Westernization Movement . It is precisely because of this that Japan did not fall into a series of humiliating fate like the Qing Dynasty, but instead achieved a certain degree of rise.
In the process of learning from the West in modern Japan, the crown culture of the Western royal family was naturally "introduced" to Japan.
Japan is a country that highly admires the strong. During the Meiji Restoration, they believed that moving closer to the West and learning could make themselves stronger. For the royal family, the crown culture also makes the royal family more "god" and better reflect the royal family's dignity and supreme status.
The royal family is willing to spend money
Just like that, Empress Zhaoxian became the first person to "eat crabs" because the Japanese royal family had never had a crown culture before. Therefore, Empress Zhaoxian's crown was designed by a German crown designer.
In order to meet the image of the so-called "rise of a great power" of the Japanese royal family at that time, the first crown of the Japanese royal family spent a lot of time to create, and the cost is now at least several million yuan.
In terms of styling, the Japanese royal family requires as close to the Western royal family as possible, but because of the royal tradition and conservatism, they have many restrictions on the German designer team, such as the color is only basically white.
Rumors have been made that the number of diamonds and pearls used in this crown of Queen Zhaoxian is unimaginable. However, what makes people smile bitterly is that on one hand, they imitate the Western royal family, and on the other hand, they must abide by some rules and regulations of the Japanese royal tradition.
This caused Queen Zhaoxian to wear the crown, and the overall look and dress of was completely caught in a "weird style". As some netizens complained, seeing the old photos left by Queen Zhaoxian back then, I felt a "cold wind".
"Unified mass production" crown
For more than a hundred years, the Japanese royal crown has been imitating the West in design, but Japan's imitation is only superficial and has not really learned the essence of the Western crown in terms of connotation.
plus the conservative style of the Japanese royal family always makes their crown look the same as "lack of customization and uniqueness".
For example, there have been several photos of Japanese royal princesses and concubines attending the banquet together on the Internet. They all wore crowns on their heads, but because their crowns are so similar.
plus the similar clothing, which gives the melon-eating crowd a sense of embarrassment of "unified mass production of crowns". The lack of uniqueness of Japanese crowns is indeed a major reason for netizens' complaints.
Therefore, although the Japanese royal family spent a lot of money on the crown, which was inlaid with luxurious pearls and diamonds, it always gave people the feeling of high imitation.
In fact, the Japanese royal family attaches great importance to the crown. From Empress Aoxian to the current Japanese royal family, one of the most important ceremonies of royal princesses is that the royal family awarded a customized crown, and the value is more than millions of yuan. Of course, the crowns of a few princesses come from some collections of the royal family.
Conservative Japanese royal family
Compared with the "lax management" of the Western royal family, Japanese royal family is a well-known conservative and "strict management" in the world. To this day, the Japanese royal family still has a deep-rooted tradition of marriage with aristocrats.
Even if it is a so-called Japanese civilian queen like Masako , her background is actually very not simple. Not only has she received higher elite education, but her family is also very not simple.
The royal family also has very strict requirements for princesses. Once princesses marry civilians, many of the princess’ privileges will lose . Some time ago, Princess Mako and her civilian husband left Japan for New York and became a hot search in Japan. And after the princess gets married, their crown will be taken back by the royal family.
Compared with the "crystalline" of the Japanese royal crown, the crown of the European and American royal crown is like a gorgeous scenery. At the auction, in some European and American museums, we all have the opportunity to see some European and American royal crowns.
You will find that the crown of European and American royal families not only has a unique shape, but also has a special sense of customization and historical heaviness. Compared with the Japanese royal family crown, the white style and white pearl diamonds with "a thousand times the same mass production" of the white style and white pearl diamonds.
The crown of the European and American royal family is more colorful on the gemstone embellishment. The embellishment of different colors makes the crown of the European and American royal family full of gorgeousness. More importantly, many gems and diamond embellishments of the European and American royal family crown.
There are different stories behind them, and this sense of story adds to the crown a sense of mystery and sacredness. Each crown of the European and American royal family seems to have its own unique "sparkling points", which always gives people a sense of that from this crown, we can see the story behind the owner of this crown.
If the Japanese royal crown and European and American royal crown are combined to form a "Crown Tasting Conference", then there is no doubt that the final winner will definitely be the European and American teams.
After all, from the surface, their "high imitation" is too "heavy". The Japanese crown blindly imitates the West. Although it costs a lot of money, its rigid and consistent shape, as well as its lack of historical heavy feeling, puts the Japanese crown in a "embarrassing and bitter smile" situation.
