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How did the ancient name for underwear evolve?

When it comes to lingerie, the first thing that comes to mind is the close-fitting clothes that women wear. Of course, nowadays underwear and ancient underwear has been very different. Nowadays, women wear lingerie, more like a kind of decoration, because wearing lingerie will make their body look more voluptuous. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, underwear was called ? Profanity? It had the meaning of not to be desecrated or violated. You should know that women at that time were very concerned about their chastity, and their thinking was also very feudal. Of course, this kind of name is more of a kind of constraint for women. Profanity? It is the clothes that are tied at the waist, chest and shoulders, etc. to achieve a kind of plastic effect in movement.

To the Qin and Han Dynasties, underwear and changed the name and style, which is underwear is called? The undergarment was called? or? heart clothes? The general shape of the undergarment is that the whole front chest is covered, leaving only the back bare. The basis of the "heart clothes" is the "gown belly", and the top of the "gown belly" is changed into the "heart clothes" by using the "hook shoulder" and "crotch" instead of the thin belt. Both of the **** the same point is the back is bare without back piece. Flat woven silk is commonly used in the Han Dynasty underwear fabrics, which are mostly embroidered with various colors of silk thread floral pattern (called color embroidery), the pattern is mostly "love" as the theme, so at that time the use of plain fabrics to produce underwear is not much.

The underwear of the Tang Dynasty period has changed a lot, then called? Hoho? This is something we should have seen in movies and TV dramas. Before the Tang Dynasty, the underwear shoulders are decorated with straps, to the Tang Dynasty, there is a kind of underwear without straps, called "huozi". This is also the shape of its outerwear features decided: the Tang Dynasty women like to wear "half-breasted dress", they will be high skirt in the inter-chest and then in the lower part of the chest to tie a broad belt, two shoulders. Upper chest and back bare, clad in transparent gauze, underwear hidden, thus the underwear fabrics sophisticated, colorful, and today advocate different "underwear outside" is quite similar. In order to match this wearing habit, the underwear needs to be beltless. Cheeky" commonly used fabrics for: "woven", straight slightly elastic, feel thick. Wear in the chest under the bundle of two straps can be, "weaving" to ensure that the "chekhas" chest part to achieve the effect of standing up.

Wei-Jin period, the underwear is called?

The underwear was called "two dang" during the Wei and Jin dynasties.

The two dang? The meaning is that both the front chest, or back, are covered by the underwear. Song Dynasty period was called ?

The two dangs? , this call is a bit modernized. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the undergarment was what we know as the ? The main waist? and? The undergarment is familiar to us as the main waist? The. It can be said that in all of the above dynasties in the underwear, we are most familiar with the Qing Dynasty? Bibs? The.