Qin Dynasty costumes

In 221 BC, Qin unified, becoming the first time in Chinese history, a vast and many nationalities unified feudal system countries. Qin Shi Huang in order to consolidate its dominant position to implement, such as a unified text, uniform weights and measures, unified criminal law doctrine, a series of measures to strengthen the centralization of the system of uniform costumes. However, Qin Shi Huang came to power not long, the Qin Dynasty costumes systems only achieve the goal of start-up, there were only a unified color of clothing, and the rest is not complete.

Qin Dynasty costumes

Qin Dynasty clothing still clinging to the habit of the Warring States Period, style of clothing is relatively simple. Qin Renchong still black, black dignified and solemn. Qin black preference is as profound, Qin Shi Huang of yin and yang theory, I believe Qin grams of weeks, should be water, fire, because the Zhou Dynasty “the anger wins gold, color is still red, he thinks Qin to replace Zhou Dynasty should be water Germany, on behalf of the color is black, so the emperor provisions the clothing color black top, and thus became the Qin Dynasty costumes distinguished black color and the color of the mainstream.

Qin Dynasty costumes
Ancient Chinese Clothing – Qin Dynasty costumes

Qin Dynasty robes only a ritual dress, black dress shirt lower, then many men in robes for your style big sleeves shut, with lace, officials robes of green , while the common people to wear a white robe. Of Dr. Qin Daide and scholars of clothing is very simple, Frame of winter wear gowns, summer wear tan clothes, basically not really gorgeous. Qin lower peasant clothing, burlap production tan clothes, Frame of gowns, sweater jacket.

Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses is the eighth wonder of the world, the Qin army clothing must mention. In the military, Qin follow the example of King Wuling of Zhao Hu Fu instead on the jacket and pants in the form of easy riding and shooting. High-ranking officers in the Qin army, wearing a double-length jacket, trousers, Waipi color armor; There are two middle-ranking officers of clothing, a long jacket, the other is high collar pleated suit. The soldier’s clothing under the branches of the military are not the same and different: ordinary warriors dressed in armor, in order to facilitate the free activities of the soldiers, armor chest poorly reduction piece Nail, nail the abdomen and chest armor slices arranged opposite, that is in the form of the showings pressure poorly, from the midline of the middle of the chest and abdomen, all nail by the intermediate layers, to both sides of the same nail combination with abdominal shoulder. Around the nail in the shoulder, abdomen and neck are connected with a connection, all nail on a nail, or two or three or four, up to no more than six. A length of the clothing, the same before and after the hem round. Lightly armed soldiers wearing a long jacket, and gird leather belt, shorts, legging bar; war drivers and some wear long undergarment, Waipi shoulders arm armor armor, and some also wear special armor clothing, A coat color is extremely rich in the Qin Dynasty red, rosy red, pink, malachite green, sapphire blue, not black only.

China’s Zhou Dynasty costumes

Textile printing and dyeing industry has been greatly developed in the Zhou Dynasty, the Western Zhou Dynasty Textile is the main form of social production. To the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the vassal state is to encourage the development of sericulture and silk production, plus promote the use of the iron to promote the handicraft equipment innovation, more diverse varieties of silk, an important period of development of the history of Chinese silk. The textile quality improvement and the increase in the variety of material foundation for the formation of the Zhou Dynasty Costume System.

China's Zhou Dynasty costumes

Zhou Dynasty to the founding of the feudal system, strict class system to consolidate the Empire, developed a set of very detailed and thorough social etiquette and stability of the world. Clothing as a sign of everyone class to become one of the foundations of the Policy and regulations are very strict. Clothing vestments, court dress, hunting clothing, fierce clothing, soldiers clothing and uniforms.

The Zhou Dynasty costumes broadly followed the Shang Dynasty service system and a slight change. Shirt lower, slightly relaxed style than the Shang Dynasty. The size of the two styles sleeves, collar universal cross collar right of junction. Do not use buttons, generally tied around his waist belt. Stern, clothing, skirts with a secondary color. White Zhou Dynasty court dress emperor, princes on Xuanyi, doctors and judges with the princes. Kings, princes Zhu Sang, the doctor Suchang, Sergeant Hyun Sang, sergeant Huangshang, Corporal miscellaneous Sang.

The Zhou dynasty towel in the form of the cap than the Shang Dynasty, headband, square-shaped, pointed, crescent-shaped towel cap shape. The low-lying towel cap ordinary people; the high tip aristocracy.

Zhou Dynasty women’s clothing due to the different strata vary. Empress six: groceries, clothing, draw out Di, Di Que, Ju clothing, show clothing, edge clothing. Their materials and the style is very different, but the colors and patterns of the same. The Zhou Dynasty women’s clothing for the T-shirt irregular cloud munsu, side to deepen the color wide-flange around his waist, fabric belt, hair backward tilt. The small girl comb double braid, Length knee, belt-line hybrid Pei.

Chinese ancient clothing Shang Dynasty dress

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.

Shang Dynasty dress

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.

Chinese ancient clothing – ancient costume

Chinese ancient clothing with the development of social productive forces and constantly changing. Always dress culture and social etiquette and ethics are closely linked. The history of the development of Chinese ancient clothing is a part of the Chinese history of thousands of years of indivisible.

ancient costume

In ancient times, our ancestors from the initial acquisition, the fishing and hunting economy development to animal husbandry, agriculture, handicraft industry economy, social production is continuously active, people’s material life enriched.

Initially, people still don’t know how to wear, but rely on their own their hair to cover the body warm. Later, slowly understand with leaves and skins to shield your bare flesh. In Beijing, Zhoukoudian to explore the cave man fossils, found a bone, that as early as in a few million years ago, our ancestors have mastered the sewing technology. People will hunt to animal fur off, then according to need, splicing seams made all kinds of clothes, to mask their bodies and defense against the cold.

When the primitive society matriarchal commune reached the prosperous stage, the emergence of primitive agriculture, the beginning of plant cultivation, after a long-term labor practice, people have invented the spinning wheel twisting, with simple cloth woven linen, used bone needles sewing clothes, weave mats made of bamboo, reed. According to historical records, emperor, Fu Xi, in the era of Yao and Shun, already has a crown clothing system. “Yu Gong” recorded in ancient China, administrative areas zoned Kyushu, states have local products as tribute to the Yangzhou area, known as “tribute silk weaving bell”, “Bei” is the name of a brocade is woven into, before dyed silk, then press the “Bei” the color pattern woven into beautiful brocade. Visible, the clothing of people already by “clothing Piwei” evolved to dye multicolored woven into Jinbo garments.

Compared with the ancient ancestors created the ancient costume culture and the broad and profound Chinese culture, although only a drop in the bucket, but its status cannot be ignored, because it is the beginning of Chinese clothing culture.

Security broadsword

Bonan men’s clothing indispensable accessories – Security broadsword is not only The Bonan proud of handicrafts, is Bonan traditional material folk culture in essence. It the Xinjiang Uygur Yengisar knife the Achang Yunnan Husa knife tied for the three major Chinese minority Mito. In 2006, the Baoan broadsword forged art was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage. Security broadsword with its bold straight blade, simple and plain appearance, durable features, deeply loved the people of the Northwest Territories, also gained quite a reputation in the Arab countries.

Security broadsword

Has been the iron industry in the economic life of the Bonan people occupy a very important position, the Bonan baby – Security broadsword, is in the hands of the workshop in the security smelting fight the system. Its manufacturing about 100 years of history can be traced back to the Yuan Dynasty, Bonan ancestors can create a name of “black rifle knife the wooden leather sheath knife, is mainly used for military defense and the slaughter of cattle and sheep .

Genghis Khan is said to unify the tribes, weapons prevailed, frequent fighting between tribes at the time, all their weapons or high hardness and break easily, or can not afford to slash low hardness. Only Genghis Khan tribal knife hardness with softness, ride in battle. Casting weapons Genghis Khan, is the ancestor of the Bonan, when they or a small family, ancient blacksmith living, enabled by Genghis Khan, they began making knives because of its special production process, tempered, Genghis Khan to fight the system superior knife Since then, security broadsword to spread.

Today, security is one of a workshop, on the basis of inherited superb, and will continue to carry forward the knife skills. Selection of high quality steel, using the traditional method of fine iron plus steel cutter body repeatedly forged shank layers made of polished brass or copper, iron, silver pieces, although no ornate decoration, but but unique national characteristics. Security artisans in their own wisdom and understanding, the type of broadsword from the original “black bore knife” wave Diurnal and seasonal development of dozens of varieties to ten like Kam today, full of the Ga angle. In security broadsword series, the most famous wave Diurnal and seasonal “, the most beautiful is like 10 Kam. These security broadsword blade engraved with seven stars, five plum, one-stop, in charge of the same fine pattern, the pattern is not only to fight the system security broadsword craftsmen Code, and some pattern even or the Bonan blacksmith in the witness of the tragedy of the old society, with a commemorative significance.

Bonan economic life has undergone tremendous changes, the the broadsword military purposes slowly fade, gift, collectibles and used as a token expression of love between men and women have become the main mission of the broadsword. Bonan Islam, folk culture still retains a lot of its own characteristics, such as: a festive festive activities, Bonan men should Peigua security broadsword, and they continue to believe that the family chipped broadsword slaughter livestock can reduce the suffering of livestock.

Chinese traditional handicrafts – Tang Dynasty

Tang Dynasty is the working people in the Tang Dynasty in China created a strong ethnic and local characteristics crafts. It is developed by the Sui Dynasty monochrome colorful glazed pottery products, it tires with white clay, copper, iron, cobalt, manganese and other metal elements mineral colorants, the preparation of low-temperature glaze, applied to the body The surface temperature of about 800 ° C, once firing. You can also burn the prime tire, Zaishi color glaze, the second firing. Its glaze green, blue, yellow, white, ocher, brown and other, generally yellow, green, ocher, and because it is beginning to burn in Tang Dynasty Luozhou the Heluo Strip, it said Luoyang Tang Dynasty, dating has There are 1,300 years of history. It draws on the characteristics of the traditional Chinese painting, sculpture and other arts and crafts, use of heap stickers, portrayed in the form of decorative patterns, rough and strong lines.

Tang Dynasty charm is first expressed in its wonderful and unique color effects, due to the lead glaze liquidity, in the process of firing glazed spread to the surrounding flowing, the glaze infiltration blend with each other, forming a natural mottled brilliant colors display a grand and splendid artistic charm. Look at the full charm of the Tang Dynasty horse, red as a warm, emerald green is so brilliant, Mazumdar white as snow, revealing a black light.

Tang Dynasty features is that it is a mix of plastic arts. The Tang Dynasty is generally divided into objects and figurines two categories. Tang Dynasty artifacts rounded body, plump, plump with the art of the Tang Dynasty, fitness, wide Shuo is in agreement, which includes a spoon, cups, plates, pots, bottles, furnace, Vessels, ox cart, carriage. Figurines including character figurines and animal figurines two. Character figurines including civilian, warrior, barbarian, lady, maid, the men female officer, attendants, honor guard, Kabuki, the kings of households grave (Lux). Animal figurines including Tomb monster, camels, horses, cattle, donkeys, lions, tigers, sheep, dogs, rabbits, chickens, ducks. Tang Dynasty characters and animals, the proportion of moderate, natural shape, smooth lines and lively. Youyi camels, horses and people shape the most vivid.

Tang Dynasty
Tang San Cai Horse

The shape of the Tang Dynasty horse, realistic shape. From Gunma look to see: foraging Changsi, or bolted, or stand, or walk, or look back to lick hair, or bow news show. A variety of circumstances in vivid. Three-color horse shape is characterized by the body tall, thin-nosed wrist, vigorous, powerful, vivid bright-eyed. Luoyang, Henan Province unearthed a dark blue background color pommel horse, over the body dark blue, set off patches of leukoplakia, dark brown saddle bridle ornaments, coupled with the green impaired mud, hooves standing, fierce-looking eyes wide open, mouth slightly open To cries of non-cries, to even vigorous prestige, reflecting the skill of the Tang Dynasty sculpture artists.
Tang San Cai camel
Tang San Cai camel
Tang Dynasty camel’s alone in that bone-shaped: it thick and long neck, sturdy body, wide mouth and eye, strong Shuo powerful heavy hooves support body. Body movement of the key parts of the neck. When the it eagerly sky and blew the its bimodal either side of subtle fibrillation, Shen defended the panoramic view of the character, and exciting. In the Tang Umori General tomb unearthed a camel figurines contained music. Camels head standing, whole body brown, from the top of the head to the neck, chin to the belly and the upper part of the two front legs drooping long-haired, soft Korea beautiful. The hump was added to our platform and covered with blankets. Platform on the left and right sit Hu Music figurines two, and sitting back to back, wind and percussion instruments, a central figurines standing, dancing. Three music figurines all deeply set eyes high nose, chin whiskers, wearing a green long coat lapel, white felt boots, the only previous wear yellow through-shoulder coat. This the tall camel upload music and dance figurines exquisite, amazing!
Tang San Cai figurines

Tang Dynasty figurines are vivid, elegant and chic. You see, the literati figurines, tall and handsome, gorgeous costumes, sloping collar, she was quiet and calm, leisurely; warriors, strong body, and the belly bulge, a suit of armor, wild-eyed, rattling, powerful and aggressive, ladies; figurines lush body, buns wide sleeves, slim, relaxed elegance very plump. Care tomb kings Helmet wearing Heguanzi, Lu Dian mouth beads, wings tail lift tail with red color, winged golden color; shirt wearing a helmet, knee pads like the head; hand rested primary Juquan, two feet on a goblin, ghost for struggling like you want to play. These images have a distinct personality, reached Vivid realm of art.

Tang Dynasty art well-made, ornate, while maintaining a realistic approach since the Qin and Han dynasties, but also the taste and color of the Tang Dynasty era of romanticism, the creation of the unique style of the Tang Dynasty pottery art, known as the “Oriental Art Sea Pearl.

Clay Zhang Caisu

Tianjin clay Zhang Caisu is a very common people like Chinese folk handicraft art, it makes the painted clay figurine shine, a flower of Chinese folk handicraft. “Clay figurine Zhang”, is given to Zhang generations of painted sculpture masters title of honor.

Clay Zhang Caisu

“Pioneer of clay figurine Zhang”, to Zhang Mingshan, he followed his father Zhang Wanquan fired ceramics, do some small animal. Later, he was not burned clay animal test on the application of color, because the effect is good, began the practice of painted sculpture. At the age of 18, he holds the family and bold innovation, to knead lifelike portrait and create a great sensation. He has been in the family runs a clay sculpture workshop plastic Gu zhai. He is highly skilled, simply and people sitting opposite, stroke soil in hand, quietly, instant and. Face diameter inch, not only vivid and true to life likeness, bishop, a popular dynamic. Legend, Zhang Mingshan often up your sleeve with mud to the theatre, while watching the side in a roomy sleeves knead head, a did not end, will make each role, vivid, distinctive. He was good at plastic portrait, gave many celebrities like plastic. Now the Museum of art on display inside the Mei Lanfang like Mr. Mei performance reproduction Daiyu art, see this piece of art, would like to see Mr. Mei dancing dancing. Foreigners “in Tianjin to weight value to buy, the museum, for people to watch. ”

Colorful clay figurine Zhang

After Zhang Mingshan, Tianjin clay Zhang Caisu art through his son Zhang Yuting (1863 ~ 1954), his grandson Zhang Jinghu (1891 ~ 1967), great-grandson of Zhang Ming’s several generation of accumulated more perfect. It is based on the absorption of the ancient mud figurines, pottery and painted sculpture art and religion in the clay Zhang Yuan, also absorbs the modern sculpture techniques, and to the bishop shape, simple and bright colors, strong decorative taste, rich flavor of life art characteristics, become the modern folk developed from the famous arts and crafts school, for hundreds of years of continuous, enduring. Xu Beihong famous painter of China praised the clay figurine Zhang characters “no special features of zygomatic hand foot mouth vivid, vivid and muscle are consistent”.

Clay figurine Zhang second generation descendant of Zhang Yuting, tend to the road of realism creation, enrich the performance skills, expanded the work scope of subject matter. The creation of Zhang Yuting’s “three hundred and sixty elements”, to observe the life of fine detail, the work of the ingenious, make Xu Beihong see. Later Xu Beihong Wen praised the “sell cake” and other works is a masterpiece of realism, they have the world first-class level of art, and then to the world’s most famous sculpture master comparable. In 1915, Zhang Yuting’s works won prizes in the Panama exposition, known as the “rise above the common herd” for.

Clay figurine Zhang third generation descendant of the creation of Zhang Jinghu’s “east wind”, by a group of old people play scene, to reflect the socialist era spirit, vivid images. Clay figurine Zhang fourth generation descendant of Zhang Ming, the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, the disaster scene, created a “double day”. We hit an old worker to airdrop food and drug at the time of excitement, this piece was selected in 1977 national art exhibition. Zhang Ming has engaged in the creation, on the one hand to teach their skills to young people. In recent years, the old artist has trained hundreds of Niren Zhang clay workers, the clay figurine Zhang clay sculpture art into a social art from the exclusive art creation, expanding the ranks.

Clay figurine Zhang generation has new development, clay figurine Zhang works at home and abroad, in 2006 May the Ministry of culture of clay Zhang Caisu was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

Jingdezhen Ceramic

Jiangxi Jingdezhen porcelain is an outstanding representative of China’s porcelain craft by celadon period “into the” period of ceramics. It is known for its fine porcelain, elegant, variety, unique style. After the Song Dynasty, after the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jingdezhen gradually developed into the center of China’s porcelain manufacture. Jingdezhen porcelain ceramic “white as jade, bright as a mirror, as thin as paper, sound like a melody, become an important asset in the treasure house of Chinese culture. Our late writer and poet Guo had the verse “the country of China No. porcelain, Porcelain peak this.” Today, Jingdezhen porcelain porcelain carving exquisite range of technology, both as a high-grade ceramic tableware, but also as an art handed down curios. Artistic expression or solemn, deep, fresh and elegant, or magnificent, worthy of a charming Jingdezhen porcelain museum.

Jingdezhen porcelain, household names, including women and children. Which blue and white, exquisite, pastels, color glaze, collectively known as the “four traditional porcelains of Jingdezhen, eggshell porcelain that magical treasures, porcelain sculpture of China’s traditional arts and crafts.

Blue and white porcelain

Blue and white porcelain is the highest of the four traditional porcelains, which began in the Song Da Sheng mature in the Ming and Qing dynasties, known as the “human treasures”. The blue and white is a underglaze porcelain, cobalt oxide blue and white porcelain patterns, depicted in the mold and applied a layer of colorless transparent glaze once firing into the kiln at high temperature. Its crystal glaze, thorough, pattern matched the blue and white, the picture is clean and simple and elegant, crisp style, with the effect of traditional Chinese ink painting, constitutes a white glaze blue and white in a town, flower glaze seeped distinct characteristics, making other porcelain can not The unbeatable. A lot of blue and white porcelain treasures are still being detained collection in the Museum of Britain, the United States and other countries. Durable blue and white porcelain, porcelain is not broken, the color does not fade, is internationally hailed as the “porcelain country, Pearl.
Blue and white porcelainFencai Ci

Exquisite blue and white porcelain

Exquisite blue and white porcelain, also known as “rice”, is in the the Ming Yongle hollow process based on the creation and development of more than 500 years of history, Jingdezhen original traditional products. Artists with a blade through flower carved on thin mold and rice-shaped hole, also known as the exquisite eye, and then fill in the exquisite glaze, filling the pass-dong, baked into the kiln. Thus, in the same piece of porcelain, blue and white and exquisite cleverly blend together a green transparent Delicate and elegant, green blue and white set off each other, each other. The formation of exquisitely carved, quiet pretty elegant unique style, foreigners called it “embedded glass porcelain. Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, the imperial kiln specialized generic exquisite porcelain and other valuable porcelain, exquisite porcelain more refined.

Painted Porcelain

Painted Porcelain is the strongest performance of the four traditional porcelains decorated, it is developed on the basis of multicolored glaze color. That is mixed with lead powder pigment painting in prime vitreous enamel firing, and then at a temperature of 2,400 degrees Celsius baking together, showing different shades of color, shades of coordination, both full of the charm of Chinese painting, There is a sense of relief. This porcelain color effect gives to moist pink beauty, hence the name pastels. Because it has a soft, elegant artistic appeal, so called soft color. Fen Caici fired in the late Qing Dynasty Emperor Kangxi, Yongzheng period to be developed, perfected the Qianlong period. Pastel take more Chinese painting color meticulous of work with writing and no bone freehand techniques, the screen filled with strong ethnic characteristics. Chinese historical stories and myths main character, a beautiful and colorful landscape, the lifelike bird feathers, neat symmetrical geometric patterns, very high artistic value, a model of oriental art.

Color glaze porcelain

Color glaze porcelain colorful, four porcelains is the most compelling, known as the “man-made stones. The manufacture of color glaze, plus some kind of metal oxide in the glaze and natural ore, after the roasting, the formation of colorful decorative effect. The people said, “What is the color, you can burn out what color porcelain nature.” That is true, Jingdezhen firing color glazed porcelain, glaze wished gorgeous, gentle and unassuming green glazed, glaze colorful, crystalline glaze is ever-changing, and some, like the starry, some like ten thousand rays, some like joy, and some, like the flowers are blooming, the magical art effect is good praise and bow. Ming Dynasty on the basis of Jun red, pottery making people create a better quality high-temperature copper red glaze – offering red. This glaze Johnson but not brilliant red, slightly purple, deep color stability, the ancient royal ceremonial vessels this glaze, later known as the “Festival red”. The world color glazed porcelain crown, offering red crown a dazzling jewelry, thousands of kilns Bao said. The color glaze yellow, Ji yellow, peacock blue and other varieties, the for Chinese porcelain Court win to a riot of color, the state made a very Yan prosperity.

Today, Jingdezhen new from craftsmen continue to learn from the advantages of the sister art to enrich the development of the art of their favorite, so that the porcelain skills are becoming more and more sophisticated, and finally to consummate, superb situation. To the essence and beauty of porcelain, everyone out of Jingdezhen. “