Into the World of Qingming Riverside Drawing (VI)--Costumes

The traditional Chinese dress culture has a long history, colorful and unique style, which provides more inspirations and materials for modern dress. As a peculiar dynasty in China's history, the Song Dynasty also had a colorful dress culture. The clothing of Song Dynasty, its clothing color, clothing style inherited from the Tang Dynasty. However, compared with Tang Dynasty costumes, Song Dynasty costumes did a better and more natural integration with tradition, giving people the feeling of restoring Chinese style. It generally refers to the popular costumes of the Song Dynasty, including the popular costumes of the Northern Song and Southern Song, which is a pearl in the development of the history of costumes, characterized by its slim fit. Song Dynasty, regardless of the power of the royal relatives, or the general public, are popular with a straight collar, a dress, unearthed objects are Fuzhou Southern Song Dynasty Huang Sheng Tomb, Hunan Hengyang He Jia Soap Northern Song Dynasty Tomb, Jiangsu Jintan Maolu Southern Song Dynasty Zhou Yu Tomb. Zhao Bo river waves tomb in Huangyan, Zhejiang Province, etc.

Song dress is divided into three main categories, one for the royal family to take the "crown", the second for the literati class of the "public service" and "regular service", and the third for the civilian class of the "public service" and "regular service". and "common clothes" used by the literati and scholarly class, and "people's clothes" used by the commoners in their daily life. Song Dynasty clothing in general reflects the characteristics of simple and elegant, mostly with conservative features. Because of the Song dynasty to implement the national policy of emphasizing the military, under the influence of the Cheng-Zhu theory of domination of thought, no blood and clothing concept tends to be simple and rational, clothing style slender, slender, simple and no flashy, and put forward the idea of change, advocating the "clothing change, discretion of the ancient system, go to the repetition, the official of the simple"

Song dynasty clothing by the old system. Inherit the legacy of the late Tang Dynasty, the line of the right time, the right world, the right amount of change; and its political and cultural shift to the south prompted the fusion of the North and South dress and the development of clothing to pay attention to the convenience and secularity; and the collision of national cultures make it passive formation of Han and minority dress fusion. Song Dynasty costumes can be said to inherit the legacy of the Tang Dynasty, the next enlightenment of the model of the Ming Dynasty.