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What's the name of the girl's underwear? The kind that is tied around the neck.

In ancient times, underwear tied around the neck with two ropes was called Chinese-style chest covering. The top of the Chinese-style chest covering is tied around the neck with a cloth belt, and the lower two sides are tied around the waist with a belt. Chinese-style chest covering, also known as "tube covering", is a kind of underwear that protects the chest and abdomen in China traditional dress. The shape is mostly square or rectangular, with diagonal design, the upper corner is cut into a concave semicircle, and the lower corner is a sharp corner or a circle. There are often patterns on the face of Chinese-style chest covering, including printing and embroidery. Most of the popular prints are blue calico, and the patterns are auspicious patterns such as giving birth, phoenix wearing peony and surplus years.

Ancient women only embroidered Chinese-style chest covering for lovers, husbands or sons; The Chinese corsets they use themselves are usually solid color fabrics with a little lace decoration. Couples embroidered Chinese-style chest covering, mostly based on love stories in operas, myths and legends. The theme of children's embroidery is to protect life and reproduction, such as tigers, tigers eating five poisons, and lotus peanuts. In terms of materials, in addition to cloth, some dignitaries also like to use silk, brocade, yarn, silk, silk and so on. Embroidery is used to show the charm in the production of navel cover, and some of them are inlaid with gold and silver silk threads, which are exquisite.

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In ancient times, Chinese-style corsets expressed their hope for beauty, affection and form with obscurity, concealment and introversion. Especially among the people, China's ancient underwear showed more elegance and romance. It is more imaginative and creative to convey body language through underwear, which adds many vivid and unique elements to China clothing culture.

According to the historical records of China, the origin of Chinese corsets can be traced back to 8 18 BC. "Zuo Zhuan" said: "There is a connection between Confucius' father and Xia _, and both of them are committed to this matter and work in the DPRK." The _ clothes mentioned here are close-fitting clothes, or they may be later Chinese corsets. Pre-Qin called it "fake" and Han called it "holding the belly", which was popular in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. There is also a saying that Chinese-style chest covering was invented by Yang Guifei to cover up the trace of her affair with An Lushan. There is also a folk saying that when Chinese-style chest wrapping began in the Han Dynasty, single women were afraid of being bullied by rude men, so they tied their chests with cloth, which was called "corset".

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