The Shang Dynasty clothing regardless of men and men and women are the upper and lower two shapes, on clothing, wear clothes, later said the clothing for the “clothes”, is derived from the. The dress waist and sleeves basically designed for tight style, length of knee, facilitate activities. Ancient Huaxia T-shirt xiachang, costume features hairdo Youren, is formed in the Shang dynasty.
The dress has a strict hierarchy, the more advanced fabric, embroidery and decorations are enjoyed by the slave class, knitting fabric and the bottom of people can only wear linen and linen cambric made of the same. According to the study, the senior dignitaries clothing is usually dressed in shorts, Jiaoling Youren, length and hip and wrist cuffs, sleeve, narrow, wearing a pleated skirt, the waist beam have broadband, legging; foot wear cusp shoe alice. Noble women wearing the maxi coat, make collar, long sleeves, waist beam broadband and cover the knee, knee cap is on the narrow width, foot wear shoes, wearing a circular hoop crown roll. But the level of social productive forces of the Shang Dynasty is relatively low, the simple folk customs, in general, the Shang Dynasty costumes or simple. Even the noble men and women, dressed in the is also more frugal.
The dress color difference is extremely obvious, this is due to political and social status of different. Noble dress, coat with blue, red, yellow, pure color, bottom with color, such as black, brown, green, after several disseminated color, and the collar, sleeves and edge, daily home furnishing wore green stripe vest, and over. Civilian clothes is not so rich and colorful.
The man with hair braided. This time man braids more style: total top, into a braid, then down to her; a left and a right side comb plait, the end curl, droop to the shoulder; there will be hair in braids, comb on the top of the disc. In addition to hair, the man had to crown, towel is popular at the time, wear a hair style is a volume growth of around a week, amount, and beam in the head, like a head hoop, in winter to cold or wear thick leather hat.
Men and women of the Shang Dynasty hairstyle similar, the hair style, mostly crimp shoulder. The head is a crown towel cap hoop type. Some women comb the top bun, it traverses a bone hairpin, and others at the top of the head on both sides of the inclined inserted two branches bird shaped hosta. The big girl in pigtails, children comb two small yajiao.
The dress of men and women of nobility and the habit, rulers and even developed a set of jade system, used to make a distinction between class and grade. The merchant class form, the general is the jade carved into a variety of small animal image, the most common is a jade fish.
