Traditional Costumes of Qin Dynasty

The Qin Dynasty costumes mainly followed the form of the Warring States period, and the style was relatively simple. Throughout the Qin Dynasty, there was a harsh, hard and solemn wind that filled the area from the beginning to the end. Influenced by this, the clothing of the Qin Dynasty was cold and serious. In 221 B.C., after Qin Shi Huang annexed the six states and established the first centralized state in China's history, he successively established various systems, including the system of clothes and costumes. Qin Shi Huang believed in the "five virtues of the end of the world", and considered himself to have won the world by the virtue of the earth, and revered the color black. The Qin and Han Dynasties, China's color is an important stage, that is, the yin and yang and five elements of thought into the idea of color, the Qin Dynasty is very short, so in addition to the Qin Shi Huang stipulated the color of the dress, the general color of the dress should be inherited from the habits of the Warring States period.

Qin Shihuang himself abolished the Zhou Dynasty six coronets, often wearing a crown of the sky, and only wearing "temptation" during the rituals.

Men's clothing dress Qin Shi Huang stipulated that the big dress is the top and bottom of the garment with the same black sacrificial dress and stipulated that the color of the clothes to black for the top, women's clothing dress Qin Shi Huang liked the palace concubines to wear a beautiful and gorgeous for the top. Since he reduced the rituals, the color of the concubines' dresses was mainly catered to his personal preference. But basically, he was still governed by the idea of the five elements.

Men at that time were honored with robes, which were a kind of long clothes that appeared after the deep clothes and were first seen in the Warring States period. The style of the robe was characterized by large sleeves and laces. Officials above the third rank wore green robes, and general commoners wore white robes. Officials wore crowns on their heads, wore swords on their waists, and wielded wutai boards in their hands (a tool used to keep track of events in the court) and white pens in their ears (used to keep track of events in the court). The people and laborers either tied their hair in buns or wore small hats and scarves, and wore long shirts with cross-necks and narrow sleeves.

Doctors and Confucian scholars were a very important class in the Qin Dynasty, and their costumes showed a unique aspect, which was both constrained and changed from the ancient times. The clothes they wore were different from the popular clothes of the time, but the texture was the same.

The clothing of the peasants consisted mainly of brown coats, robes, shirts and jackets made of coarse hemp and kudzu.

The most distinctive sign of slaves and torturers was the color red, the "ochre-clothed", as they were called in the history books. These people were not allowed to wear crowns, only red felt scarves made of coarse hemp.

Unlike other dynasties, the highlight of Qin dress was the military uniform of the time. A glimpse of this can be seen through the Terracotta Warriors of Qin Shi Huang. The accompanying figurines probably appeared during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. After Qin Shi Huang accomplished the unification of China, he began to plan for the creation of large-scale burial terracotta warriors and horses during his lifetime, and the excavation of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the First Qin Emperor, which began in 1974, is located at the northern foot of Mount Li. The terracotta warriors are either solemn and standing tall, or they are staring in deep meditation, resolute and powerful. Their battle robes are all sewn together with cloth, leather and metal, and their shoes are finely stitched cloth-soled shoes.

The high-ranking generals of the Qin dynasty wore a double long jacket with pants underneath and colored armor. These armors were worn by generals who commanded in battle, and instead of armor pieces on the chest and back, they were painted with geometric colored patterns, as if they were made of a kind of hard textured brocade, but it is possible that they were made of leather and then painted with patterns. The middle-ranking officers had two types of garments, a long jacket with a front breastplate draped with colored lace and shin wrapped with leg guards, and a high-collared pleated suit with a flush-front armor with colored lace and shin wrapped with leg guards tied around the shins. The subordinate military officials wore a long jacket with armor on the outside, and the legs were wrapped in Xingteng or leg guards, while a few subordinate military officials did not wear armor and were lightly dressed.