Clothing characteristics of people in Tang Dynasty

The official dress of men in the Tang Dynasty was the first dress developed on the basis of the Han and Wei Dynasties, and it was also called Fu Tou. After the Tang Dynasty, people added a fixed ornament to the hoe, called "towel". The shape of towels varies from time to time. Besides towels, many changes have taken place in the feet of steamed bread. By the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, the original soft foot had become a hard foot with one left and one right. Officials in the Tang Dynasty mainly wore round neck and narrow sleeves, and their colors have been stipulated: all officials with more than three products should use purple; More than five products, blushing for color; Six products and seven products are green; Eight products and nine products are cyan. There will be slight changes in the future. In addition, the application of horizontal bow under the robe was also a major feature of men's wear at that time.

The Tang Dynasty attached great importance to the communication with national cultures at home and abroad, so the costumes of the Tang people also showed unprecedented richness and splendor since the "Silk Road" in the Western Han Dynasty: robes, handkerchiefs, shirts, dresses, silk and so on. It fully shows that the Tang Dynasty is the heyday of national unity, economic prosperity and highly developed culture in China's feudal society, which has a great influence on the clothing culture of later generations and present people and has a long history.

In the Tang Dynasty, all soldiers, ministers and people wore robes, which is what modern people call long gowns and robes. At that time, according to the identity and status of the wearer, there were strict differences in styles, colors and patterns. The narrow cuff dresses sewn by ordinary people with plain linen are in sharp contrast with the fat sleeve dresses embroidered by exquisite silk and silk segments by civil servants and military attaché s. The emperor's dragon robe, also known as yellow robe. Don't offend colors, use red, mysterious, light green, crimson, white and yellow. Subordinate ministers and officials choose purple, scarlet, scarlet, white and blue to make royal clothes. These clothes showing different grades and social status continued into embroidered robes in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the square patterns on the chest and back followed the tradition of official uniforms in Tang Dynasty.