What are the ancient dance skirts in China?

Women in the Tang Dynasty especially like skirts. Besides pomegranate skirt, there are many unique styles. At the beginning, the skirt was narrow and slender, and the wearer held it to his chest, so there was a saying in Tang poetry that "the skirt was slowly tied and the chest was half exposed." In the Tang Dynasty, skirts were beautifully made, and some of them were expensive. The main styles are short skirts, bird skirts and flower cage skirts. A skirt is a skirt made of two or more colors of materials arranged at intervals. Each space is called a "break", which can be divided into six, seven and twelve breaks. The colors are red, green, red, yellow and yellow. A hundred birds skirt is a skirt woven by twisting the feathers of various birds into threads. Because of exquisite workmanship,

Therefore, the three-dimensional sense is very strong. "The face is a color, the side is a color, the eyes are a color, and the shadow is a color." Wear it, "a hundred birds can see" (New Tang Book). The flower cage skirt is embroidered with light, soft, thin and transparent "monofilament Luo", on which flowers and birds and other patterns are embroidered with various silk threads. Bird skirt and flower cage skirt are dresses worn outside ordinary skirts. In addition, there are hundreds of skirts, painted skirts (painted directly on skirts) and so on.

Until today, skirts are still commonly used by women, but the categories are more diverse and the styles are more novel.