31- Reference to costume materials of past dynasties in novel creation (7) Ming Dynasty costume (5)

It suddenly occurred to me that when I was looking for pictures of Ming Dynasty costumes, I quoted a lot of Q-version pictures from Master Fang's The Dress of Daming, which was a very detailed and cautious and reliable material in the history of Ming Dynasty costumes, but the Brief History of China Clothing (written by Wang Ming) I referred to was not so detailed. Here I only quoted some pictures from The Dress of Daming. Friends who are interested in Ming Dynasty costumes or need more detailed description in novel writing can refer to Master Jian Fang's The Dress of Daming.

the customs of the Han nationality were restored in the Ming dynasty, and the queen's clothing styles were mostly copied from the Tang and Song dynasties.

The Ming Dynasty had strict regulations on the clothes and costumes of aristocratic women. The women in the Ming Palace, including queens, imperial concubines, imperial concubines, inner wives and imperial concubines, had different clothes. Empress's costumes mainly include jade, golden phoenix crown or flower hairpin crown, big sleeve shirt, gown, embroidery and gold embroidered shoes.

1) Crown dress

The queen wears a formal dress when she receives the book and attends the meeting.

The dress consists of a rockhopper, a gown, a gown, a gown and a big sleeve shirt.

The crested rockhopper is decorated with dragons and phoenixes, jewelry tassels, jade leather belts, socks and boards decorated with blue and gold. The queen's official dress is a big red sleeve shirt, a gown, a long red dress and a red coat embroidered with gold dragon patterns, with rockhopper, foot-binding, and a thick-soled Feng Touxie.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were also detailed regulations on the dresses of Mingfu and others.

A life woman is a product, wearing a crown flower hairpin and a Zhai garment (big sleeve shirt) embroidered with 9 pairs of Zhai birds; In the plain yarn, the cuffs and skirt edges are inlaid with vermilion; Cover your knees with two pairs of embroidered birds; Jade belt, ribbon, blue socks.

the second product of life woman, the crown flower hairpin with 8 trees and 8 cymbals; Wear Zhai clothes embroidered with 8 pairs of Zhai birds; Rhinoceros band; I have the same product.

There are three kinds of life women, seven crown flowers, seven temples, seven cymbals, and seven pairs of embroidered birds. Golden leather belt; I'm as good as two.

Seven-to-nine-product crowns

: There were two gold and silver-smeared events, two pearls at the beginning, six half-opened pearls, 24 Cui Yun, 18 laurel leaves, a pair of emerald rings, eight kinds of jewels with gold and silver smeared on them, two gold and silver-smeared pearls and two beads in the mouth.

The seven items of Xiatie pendant, pendant and pendant are the same as the six items.

Eight products and nine products are embroidered with flowers, and the pendant is the same as the seven products. Embroider the branches and flowers.

It can be seen that the crown service system in Ming Dynasty is concrete and strict.

2) Common clothes

The common clothes of ladies in the palace mainly include shirts, coats, gowns, gowns, bibs and skirts.

Yan lives in a blouse, a short coat and a long skirt, with a ribbon around her waist, and the skirt is wider.

pleated skirts, phoenix-tailed skirts and yuet skirts were also popular among ladies in the Ming dynasty.

Mrs. yipin: round neck supplement (according to the rank of her husband's product), with slits on the left and right, some with pendulums, and belts with her husband's products. Most of them are standing collars with metal buttons. Wear a horse-faced skirt.

3) A Xiatie

A Xiatie is a part of the dresses of queens, courtesans and ladies.

The Xiatie is two slender ribbons embroidered with patterns, which are worn on the chest to form a "V" shape, with a round "pendant" of gold or jade hanging from the lower end as decoration.

4) Palace sash waist belt

In the Ming Dynasty, women often hung a ribbon-woven "Palace sash" on their belts as decoration.

A palace sash is a hanging ornament tied around the waist. It is a lace or flat belt woven with silk thread. Generally, it is tied with several butterfly-shaped loops 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 at the end, so as to hold down the skirt and prevent it from scattering and affecting the appearance.

5) Xunzi

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, double breasted and long sleeves. The sides of the armpit are slit, and the belt is worn at first, but not later.

in the Ming dynasty, not only queens and maidservants can wear it, but also ordinary women can wear it, but there are strict differences in colors and patterns, and the clothes of ordinary women can also be worn when they live in leisure.

6) Bijia

Bijia in Ming Dynasty is a collarless, sleeveless and double-breasted long coat, which evolved from the semi-arm in Sui and Tang Dynasties.

the length of the garment is less than one foot from the ground. Bijia has become a daily favorite coat for young women, common people's wives and daughters, and female servants.

7) Phoenix tail skirt

Phoenix tail skirt is a special kind of long skirt.

Cut the silks and satins into strips with regular size, width and width. Each strip is embroidered with flower-and-bird patterns, and colored lines are embroidered on both sides, with colored tassels or tassels hanging down, and then stitched together, which looks like a phoenix tail.

8) yuet skirt

yuet skirt is a kind of light-colored skirt, made of 1 pieces, with one color for each pleat at the waist. It is light and elegant, and the wind is like yuet, hence the name.

9) pleated skirt

pleated skirt generally refers to a skirt with many pleats. The skirt body is composed of several vertical fine pleats, with a thin waist and many pleats, and the pattern on the skirt is exquisite. Some pleated skirts have 5 pleats on the left and right, forming a real pleated skirt.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, aristocratic women's skirts became more and more decorated, with more and more pleats at the waist, and a "palace sash" woven with ribbons hung on their belts. There were more and more paintings of ladies in the Ming Dynasty, from which we can understand 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 the book A Brief History of Clothing in China by Wang Ming)