knowledge of ancient underwear
waist-wiping belly pocket
The top worn by women, that is, the upper pocket in the belly pocket, is named because it can't easily show the wearing nature of people. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, women's close-fitting clothes, "main" means fastening, which is usually worn by ladies-in-waiting, emphasizing embroidery decoration. It is a kind of "waist underpants", which is the predecessor of "Chinese-style chest covering". It started in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and is the title of underwear in the Tang and Song Dynasties. It is structurally characterized by tightening the chest to prevent cold and is used to restrain and fix the chest. Also known as doudu, square or diamond pieces are common, which can be divided into plain colors and embroidery. There are ropes at the left and right corners, which are tied to the back, and there are bags without bags.
China ancient underwear doesn't have strict laws and regulations like the outerwear of past dynasties. To some extent, it can be said that outerwear is politics, while underwear is emotion. Ancient underwear in China is a perfect combination of emotion and art, and it is a quiet word in women's private space. When every ancient woman sews her underwear, she pours thousands of feelings into it: embroidered pomegranates for children, embroidered peonies for money, embroidered beasts to ward off evil spirits, embroidered grass when she misses her sweetheart ... Life ideals and personal desires that can't be reflected in the coat at all, but can be fully described and displayed in the underwear.
As the book "Cloudy Heart Clothes —— China Ancient Underwear Culture" (published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House) shows, the diversity and timing of China ancient underwear culture are more free, more intelligent and more affectionate than other costumes. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, relying on underwear to show "the joy of sharing rooms" and to act as an external symbol of stunning ladies-in-waiting, has begun to bear the trend of sexual openness of "... things that are disrespectful to the boudoir are not different", revealing the body by virtue of the shape and color of underwear, which shows the openness of underwear clothing culture in the Tang Dynasty and the extraordinary light of humanistic spirit. The restriction of "Neo-Confucianism" in the late Song Dynasty did not make underwear culture dim and pale, but "narrow, thin, long and strange" had its own characteristics in the Central Plains, which laid the foundation for the future "Chinese-style chest covering" culture. In the underwear culture of the Ming Dynasty, the "waist-oriented" underwear, which was "not embroidered with bright red clothes" and "not wrapped with bright red clothes", further embodied the life consumption concept of "leading luxury and leading prostitution" in the social fashion at that time and became a powerful symbol of rebellion against asceticism. In the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, it was a sunny period for Chinese underwear. Whether active or passive, willing or unwilling, it not only inherited the traditional underwear, but also accepted the western underwear culture. The Chinese-style chest covering art of "shaping and keeping fit" and "trusting the spirit" promoted the brand-new content of Chinese underwear, with scientific structure, idealized totem decoration, exquisite technology and diversified materials, which made the Chinese-style chest covering art and society.
This book vividly presents the history, culture and design art of China's ancient underwear since the Spring and Autumn Period, showing a romantic and secret image completely different from the rigorous clothing of China's ancient outerwear.
before the Han dynasty, women were naked, and it was not until the Han dynasty that they put on open-backed pants. "The Biography of the Queen Shangguan in Hanshu" said: "Although the imperial envoys are all poor pants, they bring more." The so-called "poor pants" are open-backed pants. The purpose of wearing open-backed pants is to facilitate defecation, but it is logical not to wear underwear. This situation, at least until the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese made kimonos out of Tang costumes. It seems that women wear kimonos without underwear.
Some people say that kimono is a transformation of "Wu Fu", which originated from 8 children and men in the south of the Yangtze River. Women don't wear underwear, which keeps the basic characteristics of ancient China people's "clothes". "The only invention of the Japanese is the man's crotch cloth, which is still in the huge hip seam of sumo wrestler."