How to cover up the woman's private parts of the ancient bibs

Ancient people said the clothes, the upper body for the "clothes", the lower body for the "clothes". "Shirt" is a bit like a skirt, to put it bluntly is a piece of cloth to cover up. It was not until the Spring and Autumn Period that pants were introduced. Later, women would wear an extra pair of old pants during menstruation to avoid soiling their outer pants, and men slowly followed suit, gradually evolving into the underwear we wear today. Today, not wearing underwear has become another expression of sex appeal.

Ancient Chinese women's underwear trivia

1 breastplate:

is a "small clothes between the chest" is the predecessor of the "bib", began in the North and South Dynasties, is the Tang and Song dynasty underwear title, structure to tightly bound chest as a feature

2 main waist:

It is the women's intimate clothing in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, "main" means buckle, usually worn by court ladies, emphasizing the embroidery decoration.

3 blasphemy:

women's intimate wear of the upper garment, that is, the upper pocket in the belly band, it can not easily show the nature of the taking of the name, styling as today's sweatshirt.

4 bibs, also known as "bibs" to square or diamond-shaped piece of clothing, plain and embroidered patterns of points, close protection in the chest, breasts and abdomen bit, there is a harness over the back of the neck, the left and right corners of the rope belt, tied to the back, and there is a bag of no bag of points, bags are usually loaded with ginger, cinnamon and musk, and other drugs, used as a cure for abdominal cold pain and chills. Ancient Chinese women's underwear Ancient Chinese women's underwear with its "close clothing" romantic feelings in the art of dress unique. It is a woman's private space in the whisper, shy and introverted, acting as a carrier for the expression of beauty and love, once the veil of its mysterious, that body-shaping modification of the concept of modeling, the color treatment of the common people, unlimited allegory of the totem ornamentation, unique and creative means of technology, none of them spit out the women's concept of the value of life, aesthetic taste, emotional support, love and other appeals to the voice of the heart.

Women's underwear is a private dress in a specific time and space. It is more free, more romantic and rich in wisdom than the other appearance of the dress subject to the constraints of etiquette and law system, whether it is the stunning style of the wind flower women, boudoir-style small family girl, or graceful and noble life of the young woman, are particularly focused on the pursuit of personalized art in the underwear on the private platform of the colorful.

Qiaoqiao square inch

Ancient Chinese women's underwear in the styling concept, emphasizing the square inch in the underwear through the clever division to shape the body. In the operation of the style structure focuses on the different divisions and layouts of the plane form, reflecting the unique creative concept in the clever division of square inches, to achieve the oddity in the flat, the god in the flat, and the rhyme in the flat. Ancient Chinese women's underwear system has both the natural attributes of the human body attire and the social attributes corresponding to the customs and etiquette. It contains a series of systematic features such as "customized for the person", "qualitative for the topic", "customized for the style", etc., which fully embodies the profound and extensive culture of women's underwear in ancient China. From the shape design to a specific detail, it clearly reflects the social culture and performance at that time. It has both short and long, wide and narrow interspersed with thick and thin, static and dynamic changes in the creation of the law of style art. Ancient Chinese women's underwear style structure has "front and back overlay type" and "front chest single piece type" two kinds of, respectively to "cover the chest and back" and "cover the chest and breast". Covering the back of the chest" and "covering the breast" respectively. From the current research, there are several major categories of styles such as rectangular, square, diamond, Ruyi, fan, triangle, and imitation of animal and plant forms.

Color whimsy

Ancient Chinese women's underwear art in the creation of color has an extremely rich imagination, reflected in the diversity of colors, regional distinctiveness, the use of gold and silver, etc.. Li Yu, a great poet of the Ming Dynasty, in his "Idle Affair", has graphically illustrated the anomalous relationship between people, colors, and inner dress. "The rich family, where there are brocade embroidered clothes, can be served with the inner, five colorful, so that a coat is better than a coat ......" Ancient Chinese women's underwear color management to "strong sensationalism of the contrast law "and" warm and subtle method of reconciliation "is the most characteristic, strong emotional contrast method, such as red and green, blue and yellow strong contrast to create a contrast strength, and then black and white, gold and silver intervals inserted to play a rich effect. In the color arrangement of the location is also different, there are in the center of the type, corner type, scattered, full of ground type, etc.; warm and subtle reconciliation method to similar, similar, the same color configuration through the different color area and orientation of the arrangement, resulting in a warm and subtle, elegant and beautiful decorative effect, for example: with a color of different shades of the level of gradient to form a halo of warmth effect.

Totem decoration

Ancient Chinese women's underwear totem decoration in the subject matter is more colorful, indulgently landscape, flowers and birds, clouds, mascots, gods and goddesses, myths and stories, opera characters, people and other types of materials and elements displayed in the small square inches, advocating for the sky, the earth, and people of the same origin and the same root, the equality and harmony of the cultural concepts of the body to reveal the shape of the body writing the God, up to the road to the free flow of God to tell the message sent to the God. The aesthetics of the body is expressed in the form of writing God and reaching the way of God to tell the aesthetics idea of sending feelings. In the expression of form and spirit in the decoration, not only focusing on the description of the external beauty of the natural scenery, such as peony, cloud pattern; but also emphasize the symbolism of the object and the expression of the meaning, such as "happy" to magpie and plum blossom patterns to harmonize; the combination of animal and plant patterns, such as "Lian (Lotus) Years of Fortune (Fish)", "Three Fish" and "Three Fish", the combination of animal and plant patterns, such as "Lian (Lotus) Years of Fortune (Fish)" and "Three Fish", the combination of animal and plant patterns, and the combination of animal and plant patterns. The combination of animal and plant motifs, such as "Lian (Lotus) Years of Prosperity (Fish)" and "Three More Phases (Many Sons, Many Longevity, Many Fortunes)" are typical of the reproduction of traditional Chinese auspicious motifs on the underwear platform. Ancient Chinese underwear art in the totem charm is not only purely manifested in the composition of each independent pattern, but also reflected in the pattern of the operating position and layout arrangements with unique creativity, full of endless romance.

Decorative techniques

Ancient Chinese women's underwear in the creation of ready-made clothes are also very rich in artistic creativity, its decorative techniques were embroidered, set, paste, fill, embedded and other techniques. Single in the manual needlework on the attention is not wrinkled, not loose, not tight, not cracked. The pursuit of the appearance of the uniform, straight, thin, loose, light and soft. In the underwear production emphasizes the charm of local embellishment, for example: the breast part of the garter and the connecting parts of the clothing piece, with different disc flower pattern buckle to decorate, make it strange and moving, and some disc buckle is also inlaid with gold and silver silk thread, looks exquisite. In terms of embroidery of underwear, the artistic principles of energy, skillfulness, subtlety and divinity are emphasized. Needlework embroidery, needle embroidery, needle embroidery, needle embroidery, especially needle embroidery boldly in the pattern with a nail needle, disk needle, even things, stacked damask, seized the beads, cloth and other methods in the underwear for the second degree of decoration, greatly enriching the decorative vocabulary of the ancient Chinese women's underwear. Only the type of appliqué has different treatments such as appliquéd feathers, appliquéd velvet, appliquéd hair and so on. Ancient Chinese women's underwear is a sentimental cultural history, it is "only covered breasts" in the different geometric forms of division to achieve the body and social expression, the body and the value of life interplay, and through this platform to convey the performance of women's values of different times and cultures, to reveal the inner feelings.