Chinese ancient dress classification

Zhou Dynasty costumes:
Zhou Dynasty costumes, mostly wearing a “clothing”, collar open to the right; next wearing “skirts” Couture is the skirt; beam at the waist with a wide-brimmed belt, belly around like a skirt before the addition of a like “kneepad” to shelter the knee, it is also called “cover the knee.”
Spring and Autumn clothes, is straight-style gown, the clothing, the body wrap skirts together, this dress is called “dark clothing.” There is also a “unlined”, there is no lining of the large clothes. Still wearing their head “turban”; conical cap is used to wrap the hair scarf, let them loose down.
During this period, nomadic worn jacket, trousers, boots, and pass into foreign countries, this handsome costume dress up, action is indeed much more convenient.
Menswear apparel:
Mianfu: dress the most special kind of expensive, Mianfu were dressed in rituals, is the main vestments. Mainly by the crown of its costumes, clothing, clothes, shelter and other elements composed knee. Mianfu subject is Xuanyi, clothes embroidered with Chapter pattern painted above, and in the most solemn ceremony, wearing IX lines Mianfu. Under clothes, lined with white silk in a single, namely a white shirt, the ancient shirt is usually white. Bottom front cover the knee, the knee is vermilion shield the emperor, princes yellow vermilion. Shoes double bottom, with leather and wood do at the end, the sole higher Zhou Dynasty emperor, in a grand ceremony to wear red.
Benten clothing: Mianfu after its grand nature, form and Mianfu similar clothes, the biggest difference is that without the chapter. Bian Bian clothing can be divided into MG, Wei Bian, crown Benten several, their main difference is that the clothes are wearing crowns and colors.
Mysterious side: the uniforms for the emperor, princes and minister robes.
Dark clothing: ancient ritual are all clothes shirt lower not connected, but this dress is linked up and down, up and down separately stitched cut but because “the body deep”, so called “dark clothing.”
Women’s wear clothing:
Yi Yi: the queen’s pension from the king of kings festival vestments.
Yu Zhai: queen of the king, and Ms. Hou Bo Ji Xian Gong Jun aid vestments. Cyan, clothing, paintings Yu Zhai lines XII pattern, Yu Zhai plumage is also five mining.
Que Zhai: queen sacrifice Qunxiao God help the emperor and sub male Mrs. vestments from Jun Ji temple. Is a red suit, red tie Zhai engraved pattern.
Ju Yi: queen led Ming Fu Ji mulberry silkworm God tell dress, also a vassal king’s wife from the husband to help ancestral sacrifice vestments.
Exhibition clothing: clothing, also known as Wang Houli bare king and dinner guests dress is also the wife from the husband to help Bureaucrats Jun Ji temple vestments.
Lu Yi: the uniforms for the Wang Houyan home, the wife from the husband who is also a deacon’s vestments.
Plain clothes: the nobility of the woman wedding dress.
Han Dynasty, the Chinese clothing color is an important stage, that is, the yin and yang ideology infiltrated clothing color thought, Qinzhao Guo Zuo very short, so in addition to clothing color Terracotta provides, in general, the clothing color should be followed Warring States era habits.
Terracotta provides menswear apparel dress shirt lower big black vestments and provides the same color to black for the most clothes on, also provides that officials above the third grade with a white robe with Lvpao general Commoners.
Women’s wear clothing like the palace of the emperor concubines wearing beautiful and gorgeous for the last order. Because of his less Ritual for concubines clothing color is based mainly cater to his personal preferences. But basically still dominated Five Elements.
Han’s clothes, and they are gowns front of clothes Yu [Straight unlined], Ru [jacket], skirts. Because Han embroidery industry is very developed, so you can wear a wealthy family silk and satin beautiful clothes. General people wearing jacket trousers, poor people wearing short brown [denim jacket made]. Han woman wearing a two-piece dress, there are robes, skirts style is more, the most famous is “Liuxian skirt.”
Menswear apparel:
Dress: Han ritual dress, inherited the Qin Dynasty abolished “six crown” heaven and earth in a hall of sacrifice Mianfu dress approach.
Crown crown clothing: dresses for the most noble sacrifice, the emperor and Excellencies Uncooperative, Bureaucrats festival hall of heaven wearing.
Long crown clothing: the Master and deacons Baiguan, used in offerings and a variety of small ancestral worship, such as saying, Sidu, mountains, boat and other ceremonies wearer.
Commission Maung Costume: the equivalent of the crown Zhou Bian clothing. Line for the big shot doctor lords vassals ceremony at the time circlet dress.
Paper Benten crown clothing: clothing such as a large crown fire ceremony, the deacon who wear, clothes for Buddhists linen, soap leaders, Su Chang.
Robes: Since the Qin began to gown as robes, Han Xiaoli from the emperor to the base were also more gowns as robes, also the main uniforms. That is the dark clothing made robes, but because of different identities to different people wearing the crown have different names. Han Dynasty court dress, clothing color is the color with the five o’clock, that spring green, summer Zhu, Jixia yellow, white autumn and winter black. Robes are lined edge leader in clothing divisions.
Women’s wear clothing:
Temple of clothing: the equivalent of Yi Zhou Yi, is the women dress in a most honorable position. Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager of Rumiao clothing, Ye Temple of Queen’s clothing, soap under their clothing color is.
Silkworm clothing: the equivalent of about Ju Yi Zhou. March each year, the Queen causeth lords lords Mrs. pro silkworm ceremony wearing.
Robes: Since more than two thousand stone lady to Queen’s, begin silkworm clothes to robes.
Wei clothing history of ancient China during the upheaval, this time because a lot of the original barbarian moved in to live, Hu Fu became the then fashionable clothing. Tight, round neck, split ends is Hu Fu characteristics.
Menswear apparel:
Dress: In addition to Zhou, the biggest dress vestments, still only one, and the Han roughly the same, but slightly different main color clothes.
Ping Mianfu: levels in the form of clothing color roughly the same, the only chapter on clothes lines, the emperor with 12 chapters, Excellencies princes mountain dragons with nine chapters, with China and other insects Jiuqing the following seven chapters, the emperor with embroidery text , lords of woven written.
Zhou Mianfu: Yu Wen Yong successful localization policies, vigorously promote China’s ancient system of Zhou, Zhou’s clothing color system so much according to Zhou may be.
Commission Maung Costume: OK for the lords of the Qing fire ceremony dress. Black and Sang Su Yi, Chinese clothing with soap edge as its leader.
Robes: the same in the Han Dynasty, the emperor’s robes with Baiguan to crown worn to distinguish, but also has a colored robes, but usually always towards the Han Dynasty court dress with soap, purple clothes as much, while the purple robes Wei dominated places .
Babel Costume: Wei, were each dynasty emperor’s robes this service is also inferior dress. The purple yarn gowns, soap margin of clothing, black shoes.
Excursion crown clothing: clothing for the crown prince and the kings, the Zhuyihe, purple yarn gowns, soaps edge in white silk suit, white curved collar.
Baiguan Costume: The Crimson Gauze-based. But Chen made more complex by Baiguan bit high to Zhuyihe as robes, Suffering, places Zaoyi of court dress, white silk edge of single soap.
Magenta clothing: Rooftop valet and the Old Guard of the officer, all the colored suit, embroidered brocade chi fed, it is called magenta clothing.
Chang Yi: mainly pleated pants suits, uses a very broad, you can do robes, uniforms, casual wear, from the aristocracy to the common people are used to it.
Women’s wear clothing:
Ye Temple of Queen’s clothing: women robes, the most solemn dress, but also the queen to marry clothing.
Rumiao Zuo vestments: Weifei, Bin, Ming Fu’s vestments. In Jin and Southern Song, Chen are soap soap on the next.
Pro silkworm clothing: pro silkworm ceremony for the Queen’s dress line, both on the misty green next.
Assistant silkworm clothing: Weifei, example, Mingfu help line pro silkworm ceremony of Queen dress, Jin and Southern Dynasties Chen in the misty misty next. Southern Song for the Green on the Green next.
Robes: The above three are thinking towards women’s robes.
Dress than the week: Women robes robes equally with men, is very complex, it resembles the use of color, very different from the preceding dynasties.
Sui and Tang dynasties, most people wear white round neck gown, with the lower classes wore hemp, wool into a “coarse brown.” Sui woman wearing narrow-fitting round or cross collar jacket, waist mopping the floor skirt, waist also tied two ribbons. Tang women primarily shirt, skirt and cape; cape is draped over the shoulders of a long scarf. Short-sleeved shirt and a special semi-arms is set to wear the gown outside. The early Tang Dynasty Women also like to wear a small sleeve clothing Migration collar, striped trousers, embroidered and other Western-style clothing, their heads still wearing “power off”, “curtain cap.” Sui ladies, red, purple, yellow, green, four colors are most popular.
Menswear apparel:
Mianfu: vestments, the most long ceremony dress. From the emperor to Baiguan are serving it.
Robes: the inferior Mianfu second such dress.
Babel crown clothing: the emperor of the most solemn robes.
Excursion crown clothing: the Crown Prince and Prince’s most solemn robes.
With clothing: also known as court dress.
Public service: as inferior Mianfu, third, etc. dress robes.
Benten clothing: Hatsumi by dynasty emperor in the service of, the Crown Prince of the lunar attend to office clothes.
Public service: Crown Prince in May CHANG Chao, Mongol dynasty served by the winter solstice.
Flat towel conical cap clothing: Armored public service.
WuShaMao clothing: for the emperor and the crown prince, as the DPRK, hearings and see the guests feast of clothing to black yarn to make hats.
Black mediated conical cap clothing: no public office scholars, in an audience Shouzhao wear.
Supplements: For the most widely used clothing.
Yellow robe: the emperor began to wearing yellow robes.
Commodities clothing: clothes in different colors to each official products of the tradition of rank.
Women’s wear clothing:
Big dress:
Groceries clothing: the most solemn great dress.
Yu Zhai: Crown Princess most drop heavy big dress.
Often dress:
Yi: Queen of the ceremony to see the emperor wearing.
Zhuyihe: Queen’s feast guests see when wearing.
Tin flower hairpin hairpin ceremony ceremony clothes clothing: Normalized marry dress.
Song of clothing, the clothing color, costumes and more inherited the Tang Dynasty, but with the traditional fusion better, more natural, the impression is to restore the Chinese style.
Song Hou costumes Men generally followed the Song Dynasty style, ordinary people to wear cross collar or round neck gown, when things stuffed up her clothes on the belt, dress is black and white colors.
Then retired officials, literati to wear something called “direct drop” breasted gown, big sleeves, cuffs, collars, shirts angles are inlaid with black edges, square barrel head and then wore a hat, called “East slope towel. ”
Song is wearing a tight sleeves ladies jacket, wearing a dress, usually wear a jacket outside breasted long sleeve small Bei child, much like the current vest, collar and breast Bei child are embroidered beautiful lace.
Menswear apparel:
Mianfu: Song Mianfu begin to reduce the types of non-Mianfu big ceremony to wear the case, it often.
Robes: Song Jin under the special decoration added that the “party Heartsongs collar.”
Public service: Song to uniforms for the public service.
Women’s wear clothing:
Dress: the color of their clothes roughly the same as the Tang Dynasty.
Supplements: are big sleeves shirt, skirt, Xiapei as uniforms.
Jin Yuan clothing system and similar.
Ruled by the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty costumes are also quite special. Mongolian much hair on the forehead inflicted a small lock, like a peach, the other on the compiled two braids, and then wound into two large rings hanging behind the ears, the head of the Dai Li sub cap. Yuan’s clothes are mainly “quality service Sun” is a shorter gown, tight, relatively narrow, there are many in the waist gathers, this dress is very easy horse to dismount.
Yuan aristocratic women, often wearing a long, tall, looks very strange hat, this hat is called “Picnic Picnic crown.” They wear robes, large and long, walking inconvenient, often two maids to help them in the back pulled Paojiao, the general civilian women, mostly wearing black gown.
Menswear apparel:
Mianfu:
Dagon Mianfu emperor.
Prince Dagon Mianfu.
Public service: salute when Baiguan worn.
Supplements: Yuan upper major garment.
Ming lady is wearing a big red multi-sleeve gown, women in general can only wear pink, purple, green, and some pale colors. Weekdays often wears a T-shirt dress, ribbons tied around the waist, wide skirt, style a lot, like a pleated skirt, Pteris skirt, Yuet Wah skirt.
Menswear apparel:
Mianfu: From the Song Dynasty emperor almost wearing one kind Mianfu.
Court dress: There Babel crown clothing, leather Benten suits, robes and so on.
Public service: Baiguan formal office clothing. Are used to it.
Supplements: Restore system which Tang era uniforms.
Women’s wear clothing:
Dress:
Groceries clothes: for the Queen by the deletion, Ye Temple, North Korea will be wearing.
Zhai Yi: for the Queen’s second dress.
Dress: official products Mingfu big dress.
Qing Dynasty clothes long robe, was previously rich people to wear costumes, and later general, and became the country’s general clothing, hat is worn on weekdays melons cap, the color is black outside, red inside. Manchu women wore cheongsam is wide big early, and later became a waist, the cheongsam outside plus a “waistcoat” (vest). Their shoes are also very special, is a pot-like high-soled shoes. As Han women’s clothing, then, and the Ming Dynasty almost.
Menswear apparel:
Outer coat dress: Due to different ornamentation were rank
Dagon clothing: for the emperor wearing.
Long coat: the Prince of the photo.
Missed Dose: According ornamentation of different ranks, respectively.
Robes: the most solemn great dress.
Kat clothing: Qing Dynasty dress, inferior court dress for Kat clothes, dressed for Jiqing Dian ceremony.
Supplements: apparel Qing regime, only for uniforms, provision is very small.
Women’s wear clothing:
Robes: the Queen’s robes is towards skirts, gowns DPRK, the DPRK gown, three party as a whole.
Kat clothing: the composition of the outer coat and gown.