If the dress of men and women in the Tang Dynasty is mentioned, there are some topics to discuss. From men's clothes, socks, shoes and hats to women's gold hairpin skirts, as well as Tang makeup derived from women in the Tang Dynasty, people have always talked about it.
Although people usually like to say that a man depends on his clothes, it is impossible to dress up a man perfectly. When men in the Tang Dynasty dressed themselves up, they were very different from men in the past in aesthetic taste.
So, when men in the Tang Dynasty dressed themselves up, what are the little habits that people can talk about?
In the early days, men didn't pay so much attention to their appearance and temperament, and they preferred masculine faces.
However, in the period of Wu Zetian, due to her personal preference, she raised many men who were similar to the first. These men were outstanding in appearance at first. In order to make the queen like it more, they need to make themselves look better.
Except for Wu Zetian, many princesses in the Tang Dynasty also have the habit of raising their heads. Most of those men are "serving people with color", so they will pay great attention to the beauty of their appearance for fear of provoking disgust.
However, most of the men who knew how to make up at that time were men who served people with color, and the trend of the whole society was relatively normal.
However, with the change of people's aesthetic concept in the Tang Dynasty, this kind of behavior, which is keen on dressing up, gradually became popular in the whole society, and spread widely. Sometimes, a man who is born with a very dominant appearance will inadvertently make a behavior that will attract others to imitate.
Lu Yan, a native of the Tang Dynasty, is a person who can dress up very well. Today, he can definitely become a very good blogger. Because he became more beautiful after wrapping a scarf on his head, others began to imitate him.
Lu Yan didn't want to "bump into shirts" with others, so he cut off a corner of the silk scarf in an ingenious way. At this time, it is not easy to imitate it, because ordinary people only have the effect of imitating others.
in the Tang dynasty, hairpin flowers were a way for some men to dress themselves up, but in fact, this way did not spread nationwide. The reason is very simple, because the vast majority of men at that time did not agree with this matter in consciousness.
Therefore, men's hairpin flowers are only popular among a small group of men.
It is a very common behavior for women to spend their time wearing flowers in the Tang Dynasty. There is an ancient painting called "A Picture of a Lady with Flowers", which depicts a maid who spent her time wearing flowers on her head in the Tang Dynasty. But in fact, at that time, there were also men who occasionally spent flowers, but only in a small range.
Through some poems, we can actually see the imprint of male hairpin flowers in the Tang Dynasty.
Du Mu mentioned the man's behavior of arranging flowers in "Climbing the Mountain on Nine Days": "It's hard to smile at every opening in the world, and chrysanthemums must be planted all over the head." With chrysanthemums in full head, the picture is actually quite cola from today's perspective.
Although the men's hairpin flower was not popular in the Tang Dynasty, some "fashionistas" had already sniffed out the smell that it would be popular in the future, so they consciously put flowers on it as men.
It is recorded in Records of Different Men in Jianghuai that there was a man named Li Mengfu at the end of the Tang Dynasty, who was a man who loved Zanhua very much.
Although this man's hairpin behavior is regarded as heresy by many people in the end, in his own mind, he is the most beautiful man in the whole street with this flower, which indicates that men in later generations will also form a hairpin craze.
1. Tattooing has become popular, and you don't seem to be a social person if you don't follow the crowd.
I saw the confession of a tattooed man in Tik Tok before, saying that even in today's society, when people first see a tattooed man or a tattooed woman, their brains will subconsciously send out a signal that "I'm afraid this is a bad person". So every time he goes out, he will face different eyes from others.
"Tattoo = bad guy" seems to have been marked as an equal sign.
In fact, this concept existed not only now, but also in the Tang Dynasty. However, the behavior of tattooing at that time did not mean that the directivity was so strong.
In the Tang Dynasty, tattooing was a common behavior of both men and women, but women generally wanted to look better, while men mostly wanted to look more domineering.
Tattooing is a popular behavior for ordinary people. So when a person wears clothes, he looks just like ordinary people, but when he takes off his clothes, the tattoos tattooed on his body will show that he is different.
In the Tang Dynasty, the business of tattoo industry was relatively mature, and there were many professionals in the market who served those who needed tattoos.
They are skillful. According to the requirements of customers, they draw patterns on their bodies, then start to tattoo, and finally start to brush a layer of ink on their skin. After that, tattoos become a permanent mark.
In the Tang Dynasty, even when tattoos were the most popular in the mid-Tang Dynasty, most people chose to get tattoos on their bodies. They get tattoos on their bodies either because of the nature of their work or because of their personality.
Besides, tattoos in the Tang Dynasty have another feature, that is, they cover a very large area.
Nowadays, most people get tattoos, both men and women, for the sake of beauty. Only those who seek hegemony will choose to get tattoos all over their bodies. Men in the Tang dynasty had such a habit when they got tattoos, and they liked to parade around the city with tattoos on their backs.
This is the confidence of social people. Because tattoos look domineering, many "black society bosses" like to have tattoos all over their bodies, and they also like to choose some animals such as tigers and two-headed snakes that look more powerful. It's no problem that this spectacular picture frightens those timid people.
2. Tattooing in the Tang Dynasty also shows that he is a literate person or enthusiastically supports the idol of a great poet.
It says that on the one hand, men in the Tang Dynasty tattooed because they wanted to look more powerful and bluffing. Most of them were social people, but the other one likes to show that he is a literate person through tattooing, or a male mass who has fanatical worship for a great poet.
As far as the tattoo content is concerned, the tattoos on men in the Tang Dynasty are one kind of animals that look overbearing and powerful, and the other is various poems.
Yes, many men in the Tang Dynasty had a special liking for poetry when they got tattoos, so poetry-style tattoos were also very popular among ordinary people.
In the book "Miscellaneous Things in Xiyang", many "exotic flowers" that made outstanding contributions to the tattoo industry in the Tang Dynasty are recorded, including those with ferocious animals tattooed on their bodies and poems tattooed on their bodies.
By comparison, it records a man named Ge Qing in the Tang Dynasty, who carved 3 poems by Bai Juyi below the neck. That's not to mention, every poem has a special picture.
Therefore, Ge Qing can be said that his whole body is full of words and paintings. I wonder if Bai Juyi will feel very honored to know that he has such a fanatical fan.
besides expressing their enthusiastic support and love for idols, poetry tattoos also have a function of showing that they are a literate person.
The story of a man tattooed with poetry in the Tang Dynasty is also recorded in Miscellaneous Stories in Xiyang.
A man named Wei Shaoqing has a painting tattooed on his body, which is about the artistic conception of "Night Scene in Western jackdaw, Autumn Wind Traveling to Yan's Home" in the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ji's "Night Scene in Yuezhou".
However, when Wei Shaoqing made demands for tattoo artists, he turned the "evening scene" into a "ten thousand mirrors". As soon as the poem changed, the picture tattooed on his body changed. So at that time, Wei Shaoqing was laughed at because of this oolong.
It can be seen that we should be careful when tattooing poems and articles on the bodies of those Tang people who have no cultural barriers! After all, you will make a big joke if you are not careful.
But anyway, tattooing, a performance art, is a choice that many men in the Tang Dynasty will make when dressing themselves up, which is relatively civilian.
Everyone loves beauty. In the Tang Dynasty, men could choose to be a powerful man or an exquisite pig boy. In the final analysis, it was because the society at that time was more tolerant of this behavior!