What did the Ming Dynasty wear? Ming closet on display at Nanjing's Ganxi Residence

What did the Ming Dynasty people wear? Nanjing Ganxi Former Residence exhibits Ming-style closet. The following text material is collected and organized by the school easy search. Let's let's take a quick look at it!

Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years not only made Nanjing prosperous, but also brought rich relics to the whole Jiangsu. Recently, a number of precious relics unearthed from the Ming Tombs in Taizhou were exhibited to the public and tourists at the Nanjing Folklore Museum. more than 30 pieces of unearthed costumes, such as dresses, robes, hats, boots, turbans and so on. The three-dimensional presentation of more than 400 years ago Jianghuai Shi people wearing style.

Ming Dynasty closet from the tomb

Patches, robes, hats, skirts, pants, phoenix shoes, undershirts, capes, boots, pillows, scented pouches, handkerchiefs a variety of clothes displayed in the Folk Museum's display cabinets, like a long row of a wide array of Ming Dynasty closet. It is understood that these clothes are over the years in the Taizhou area found in a number of thirteen mausoleums unearthed. The earliest can be traced back to the May 1979 excavation of the Ming Dynasty Zheng Tong period of Shaanxi Cloth Envoy Hu Yu tomb, and the most recent is the February 2011 excavation of Taizhou Chunlan Road tomb.

Some of these clothes were buried in the tomb, while others were worn directly on the deceased, known as shouyi (寿衣). Many well-preserved corpses, some even lifelike and wearing perfect shrouds, were reportedly found at the Thirteen Tombs in Taizhou. Archaeologists carefully peel off these shrouds so that they can be properly hidden in museums.

Clothing on display from head to toe

There are a wide range of Ming costumes on display, mainly in dark yellow, such as sauce-colored tops, satin skirts, cloud-patterned silk shirts, satin robes, eight-power silk pants, eight-power silk jackets, phoenix-head shoes and satin cotton jackets. All are very large. The most striking is a patch with a square piece of silk in the middle of the chest, about forty or fifty centimeters square.

According to experts, this is Buzi, on which there are patterns of rare birds and beasts. The birds represent civil officials and the beasts represent military officials, with different animals representing different official ranks of their owners. This piece of cloth is embroidered with two peacocks. Experts say it was owned by Xu Fan, the right minister of the Ministry of Public Works during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, who was a civil official of the highest rank.

Besides the clothes, there are various cloaks, handkerchiefs, knee pads, leg guards and hats on display. Experts say that knee pads and leg guards in the Ming Dynasty were different from those of today. They were not sports equipment, but decorations on clothes. Several filigree handkerchiefs found in the Thirteen Tombs are also quite eye-catching. The bright yellow handkerchiefs had blue stripes, geometric patterns and tassels. Even now, they are very fashionable.

The exhibition will last until Nov. 26 at Gan Xi's former residence, No. 42 Wujin. The museum told reporters that most of the exhibits in the exhibition are silk artifacts, which require high exhibition conditions. Desiccant in the display cabinet. The current fall and winter temperatures are just right, as long as the humidity is strictly controlled, you can guarantee the safety of cultural relics.