The customs of the Han nationality were restored in the Ming Dynasty, and the queen's clothing styles were mostly imitated from the Tang and Song Dynasties.
The Ming dynasty had strict regulations on the clothing and accessories of aristocratic women. Women in the Ming Palace, including queens, concubines, concubines, inner concubines and concubines, all have different costumes. Empress's clothing mainly includes Yu Pei, Golden Phoenix crown or flower hairpin crown, long sleeve shirt, gown and embroidered shoes.
1)
The queen wore a dress when she registered in the book and attended the meeting.
The dress consists of rockhopper, robe, robe, robe and big sleeve shirt.
The crested rockhopper is decorated with dragons and phoenixes, jewelry tassels, jade leather belts, blue and gold socks and wooden boards. The queen's formal dress is a big red shirt, a robe, a long red dress and a red coat embroidered with golden dragon patterns, with rockhopper, foot-binding and a thick-soled Feng Touxie.
The Ming dynasty also had detailed regulations on the dress of Ming Mu and others.
The woman is a product, wearing a crown hairpin and a Zhai garment (big sleeve shirt) embroidered with 9 pairs of Zhai birds; In plain yarn, cinnabar is embedded in cuffs and skirts; Cover your knees with two pairs of embroidered birds; Jade belt, ribbon and blue socks.
The second product of life, 8 trees and 8 cymbals in the crown flower hairpin; Wear Zhai clothes embroidered with 8 pairs of Zhai birds; Rhino band; I have the same product.
There are three kinds of women, seven crown trees, two temples, seven cymbals and seven pairs of embroidered birds; Golden belt; I am as good as two.
Seven products to nine products
Crown: In the event of gold and silver smearing, there were two beaded bouquets, two beaded laurel trees, six beaded half-opened, 24 Cui Yun, 18 laurel leaves, a pair of emerald buckles, eight kinds of jewelry smeared with gold and silver, and two beaded mouths.
The seven-level iron pendant is the same as the six-level iron pendant.
Eight products and nine products are embroidered with flowers, and the pendant is the same as the seven products. Embroider branches and flowers.
It can be seen that the crown service system in Ming Dynasty is concrete and strict.
2) Secret Service
The common clothes of ladies in the palace mainly include shirts, coats, gowns, gowns and skirts.
Yan Ju wore a coat, a short coat, a long skirt, a ribbon around her waist, and a wider skirt.
Pleated skirts, phoenix-tailed skirts and moon skirts were also very popular with ladies in the Ming Dynasty.
Yipin's wife: round neck sticker (the sticker pattern depends on the grade of husband's products), split left and right, some with pendulum and husband's products. Most of them are vertical collars with metal buttons. Wear a horse face skirt.
3) Xiapi
Bi Xia is part of the costumes of the queen, maids and ladies.
The shape of Bi Xia is two slender ribbons embroidered with patterns, which are worn on the chest to form a "V" shape, and the round "Bi Xia Pendant" with gold or jade is hung on the lower end as decoration.
4) Palace belts and belts
In the Ming Dynasty, women often hung a "palace belt" woven with ribbons as decoration.
Uterine tapestry is a kind of pendant tied around the waist. It is a lace or flat belt woven with silk thread. Generally, there are several butterfly-shaped rings in the middle, hanging to the ground, with Yu Pei, gold ornaments, bone carvings, Chinese knots and other heavy objects strung in the middle, and tassels tied at the end to suppress the skirt and prevent it from affecting the appearance.
5) raccoons
Xunzi appeared in the Song Dynasty and was popular in the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties.
There are many styles. Typical styles are knee-length, straight collar and long sleeves. The underarm is slit on both sides, first with it, then without it.
In the Ming dynasty, not only queens and handmaids could wear them, but also ordinary women could wear them. But there are strict differences in colors and patterns, and ordinary women's clothes can also be worn in leisure life.
6) comparison
Gaby in Ming Dynasty is a kind of long coat with no collar, sleeveless and double-breasted, which evolved from the semi-arm in Sui and Tang Dynasties.
The length of the clothes is less than a foot from the ground. Gaby has become a favorite coat for young women, wives and daughters of ordinary people and female servants.
7) Phoenix tail skirt
Phoenix tail skirt is a special kind of long skirt.
Cut silks and satins into stripes with regular size and width, embroider each stripe with a flower-and-bird pattern, embroider colored lines on both sides, hang colored tassels or tassels, and sew them together to look like a phoenix tail.
8) Yuehua dress
Yuet dress is a light-colored dress, which consists of 10 pieces, and each pleat at the waist has 1 color. It is light and elegant, and the wind is like moonlight, hence the name.
9) pleated skirt
A pleated skirt generally refers to a skirt with many folds. The skirt is composed of multiple vertical pleats, with many waist pleats and exquisite patterns on the skirt. Some pleated skirts have about 50 pleats, forming a real pleated skirt.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were more and more dresses for aristocratic women, more and more skirts, more and more pleats at the waist, and a "palace sash" woven with ribbons hung on the belt. There are more and more paintings of ladies in the Ming Dynasty, from which we can know the situation of women wearing long skirts at that time, such as Chou Ying's Spring Dawn in the Han Palace and other works in the Ming Dynasty.
(Excerpted from Wang Ming's A Brief History of China Clothing)