Origin of the Bachelor's Cap?

In the early 13th century, the University of Paris, France, the first degree system, the degree is divided into doctoral, master's and bachelor's three levels. In order to be able to reflect the degree conferral ceremony marking the different levels of knowledge of the degree, clothing designers should be the request of the President of the University of Paris, designed a unified standardized degree dress. Degree dress by the degree cap, tassel, degree gown and overlay triangular pocket drape and other four parts.

Degree caps are uniformly book-like square and black; tassels are an important distinction between different degrees, the tassel of doctoral degree caps is red, the tassel of master's degree caps is dark blue, and the tassel of bachelor's degree caps is yellow;

The color of draping cloths is an important identifier of disciplines and professions, and is pink, gray, yellow, green, white and red respectively according to the six professions of arts, sciences, engineering, agriculture, medical and military; doctoral degree gowns are red, red and green; and the tassels are red, red and green; the tassels are red, red and red. red; doctoral degree gowns are red and black, master's degree gowns are blue and dark blue, and bachelor's degree gowns are yellow and white.

The shape resembles a Chinese lantern spike, which is suspended from the degree cap. The use of tassels, not only for the world's degree dress common, in line with world practice, but also make the degree dress in the solemn and generous at the same time, through the lively and ethereal feeling, more with the degree cap constitutes an organic whole, to avoid the degree cap of the suspicion of the bald and dull, and also through the tassels to distinguish between the degree of the level and the mark out the wearer has been awarded a degree or the current students.

Not awarded a degree, the tassel hanging in the dresser wearing a bachelor's degree cap in the middle of the right front side; degree conferral ceremony, after the awarding of the degree, by the degree evaluation committee chairman (or the school, college, director) the tassel from the dresser's brim of the right front to the middle of the left front side, and was naturally sagging.

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