The evolution of Chinese wedding attire

Changes in Chinese wedding attire Spring breeze is not as good as a red dress

One, Zhou system wedding attire:

Weekly wedding attire China's crown system in the Zhou Dynasty was gradually perfected, along with the emergence of hierarchical system, a variety of rituals and then appeared, different occasions to wear different costumes, wedding attire corresponding to the emergence of.

With today's wedding lively, festive atmosphere is different, the tone of the wedding of the Zhou Dynasty solemn and solemn, the wedding system in the dress is also revered solemn and solemn, the color of the wedding dress follow the Xuan crimson system. The groom wore the head of the Lord Bent (similar to the emperor's coronet), the upper garment is wearing the metaphysical color (green and black) on behalf of the sky, the lower garment is wearing the crimson (light red) on behalf of the earth, and there is a black piping, symbolizing the harmony of yin and yang, shielding the knee is brownish-red, the belt is black, the shoes for the red 舃 (i.e., red double-soled shoes). The bride is wearing a decorative wig mixed with real hair combing, wedding dress form and men the same, the only difference is the color of the clothing, the top and bottom of the garment are black, on behalf of the meaning of "exclusive".

This shows that the Zhou Dynasty wedding costumes are mainly black and red, dignified and generous.

Second, the Tang wedding dress:

Tang wedding dress Tang wedding dress fusion of the previous solemn sacred and the latter's warm celebration, men's clothing scarlet, women's clothing green, red men and green women from the Tang wedding dress.

The hairpin dress is the late Tang Dynasty courtesan dress, in the flower hairpin large-sleeved 襦裙 or even on the basis of the development of the dress, wearing a long-sleeved shirt and skirt, draped in silk, layers of layers, layers of layers of pressure, and then put on the outside of the wide-sleeved wide-sleeved blouse. After the Tang Dynasty, this complicated wedding attire was simplified, and became the general sense of the flower hairpin large-sleeved shirt. The sons and grandsons of noblemen could use coronation or benjian costumes for their marriages, the daughters of officials could wear the destined women's dresses that matched the mother's status rank, and commoners could wear reddish-red dresses for their marriages.

In fact, the biggest difference in Tang Dynasty gowns is still in the women, the color has changed even more.

Three, Ming Dynasty wedding dress:

Ming Dynasty wedding dress Ming Dynasty, due to the rise of the scholar class, the culture has been a long development, which also includes the wedding culture, and therefore the impact on the modern era is the greatest, the development of complex systems and cultural terms.

During the Ming Dynasty and the four hundred years of the modern era, a commoner man who married his wife, commonly known as "Xiaodengke", could wear the nine-pin official uniform, a green nine-pin turban official dress. Bride with Feng Guan Xiapi, head wearing a phoenix crown, face covered with a red cape, upper body wearing a red juan shirt, jacket flower red robe, neck wear collar Tianguan locks, chest hanging demon-detecting mirror, shoulder cape, and then across the a Zisun bag, arm wrapped around the fixed hand silver, lower body wearing a red skirt, red pants, red satin embroidered shoes. This is now our eyes typical of the traditional bride modeling.

Ming Dynasty, men and women's wedding costumes are corresponding, if the man wears dark-colored clothes, the woman should correspondingly wear real red pasted together, red skirt, false sideburns flower tin; if the man is false wearing nine official clothes, then the woman wears a real red big-sleeved clothes or round neck of the women's python dress, big red pleated skirt.

The Ming Dynasty when the real Feng Guanxia cape appeared, the influence of future generations is significant, today we have the impression of ancient wedding clothes are mostly Feng Guanxia cape, film and television dramas are also commonly used in Feng Guanxia cape to show the ancient wedding.

Four, modern wedding dress:

Modern wedding dress with the invasion of Western powers, the outbreak of World War I and World War II, Western culture has gradually spread to China.

In the 1920s, the Western-style wedding dress was gradually accepted by the Chinese, and in the 40s around the time it really became a fashion.

In the 1950s, the wedding dress evolved into a blue Zhongshan suit for the groom and a cheongsam or red jacket dress for the bride.

In the late 60s and 70s, revolutionary couples were more ambitious than red and green, and wedding dresses became blue or green military uniforms.

Early 80s, opened the door to the country, people's concepts have changed drastically, everyone's love of beauty has been well interpreted, cheongsam, wedding dresses, dresses once again prevalent.

And nowadays there is no form of regulation of wedding clothes, what you want to wear on what to wear, very free.