The origin and significance of Zhongshan Clothing

The Zhongshan suit was named after Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who was the first to wear it. In the 18th year of the Republic of China, when the Constitution of the Nationalist Party was enacted, it was stipulated that all civil officials of a certain rank should wear the Zhongshan suit when they took the oath of office, to show that they obeyed the law of Mr. Sun. Format: stand-up collar, lapel, five buttons on the front, four patch pockets, and three buttons on the cuffs. The back piece is not broken. These shapes are in fact elaborate, with meanings based on the I Ching, Zhou dynasty etiquette and other content.

Sun elaborated on the ideological and political meaning of the garment:

1. The four pockets on the outside of the garment represent the "Four Dimensions of the State" (i.e., propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame).

2, above the pocket curved center protruding from the pocket cover, pen mountain shape on behalf of the importance of intellectuals.

3, the front lapel of the five buttons and five pockets (one on the inside) were expressed by Mr. Sun Yat-sen's five powers of the constitutional doctrine (executive power, legislative power, judicial power, the right to examination, and the right to monitor the collar (buttons) and the inside (pockets) to highlight the role of monitoring power of the people's supervision).

4. The four buttons on the four pockets of the front lapel contain the four powers of the people: the power to "elect, create, recall and review".

5. The three buttons on the cuffs represent the Three People's Principles of "nationalism, people's livelihood, and people's rights".

6. The collar is closed with a lapel, indicating the strict philosophy of governance.

7. The back of the jacket is unstitched, indicating the peaceful unification of the country.

Characteristics of the Chinese tunic suit

The Chinese tunic suit is based on the extensive absorption of European and American costumes, and Mr. Sun Yat-sen, the pioneer of the modern Chinese revolution, synthesized the characteristics of Western and Chinese costumes, and designed a straight lapel with a pocket cover of the four patch pockets of the garment, and was called the Chinese tunic by the world. Since then, the Zhongshan suit has become so popular that it once became one of the favorite standard garments for Chinese men.

In the 1960s and 1970s, hundreds of millions of adult Chinese men mostly wore the Zhongshan suit, and after the 1980s, with the deepening of reform and opening up, suits and other fashions gradually became popular.

Reference for the above: Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhongshan Suit