Wedding dress for Chinese wedding

At the wedding, the bride's wedding dress has developed from the initial pursuit of fashion and popularity to the established and essential wedding dress style today. People are no longer keen on or concerned about the understanding and choice of Chinese wedding dresses. When it comes to China's wedding clothes, people will only think of red auspicious clothes and red hijab embroidered with dragons and phoenixes, or the styles of cheongsam and jacket in the Qing Dynasty in film and television dramas. As we all know, the origin of China wedding dress can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty more than 3000 years ago.

Traditional wedding dress

Since the appearance of wedding dresses in the Zhou Dynasty, wedding dresses came into being. After the development of Qin and Han Dynasties, it reached its peak in Tang and Song Dynasties, and experienced a great evolution in the Revolution of 1911, showing a diversified development trend at this stage. Throughout Chinese weddings, there were three main wedding dress formats in ancient times, namely, the weekly system of "Jue-Jing Sleeves", the Tang system of "Dress-Zanli Dress" and the Ming system of "Jiupin Official Dress-Xia Dian".

(1) Zhouzhi wedding dress

The wedding ceremony system in Zhou Dynasty advocated correctness and solemnity, attached importance to the righteousness and gratitude of the couple, and ignored bride price and ostentation. Therefore, there is no noisy and festive banquet today, and the color of wedding clothes (faint clothes) also follows the "mysterious system." Dark black is the red in black. According to the five elements, this color is the most sacred color between heaven and earth.

Stunt, Duan Xuan dress, Fu Jian dress, white silk jacket, black cymbals, red cymbals or shoes. Wear clothes made of dark black and solid colors. Hair accessories are composed of patterns, patterns and times. Wear "patterns" on your head and tie patterns on your hair. The patterns are one foot or two long.

The groom's dress is a knight errant's dress, full dress, exquisite and colorful dress, white silk single coat, light green drought, red island, or shoes. The bride wears a dark black dress with pure clothes and sleeves, and wears an evening dress when meeting her parents-in-law, and her hair accessories are always intermittent. The bride wears "Time" on her head, and her hair is tied with a knot one foot and two long.

(2) Tang wedding dress

Weddings in the Tang Dynasty are not only solemn and sacred, but also more warm and festive. The groom wears scarlet and the bride wears green, which is the origin of the so-called "guys and girls".

Royal aristocratic men can wear crowns or robes when they get married, and officials' daughters can wear ceremonial robes consistent with their mother's identity. This dress is characterized by big sleeves, long skirt and silk. Lan Shen's clothes are often decorated with gold, silver, glass and other female ornaments, which are magnificent and magnificent. Therefore, the ceremonial robe became a very fashionable grand costume popular in the Tang Dynasty. In the middle and late Tang Dynasty,

(3) Ming wedding dress

During the 400 years from Ming Dynasty to modern times, a man married a wife, commonly known as "Little Deng Ke". Therefore, the groom can wear a turquoise nine-grade official uniform, the civil service is quail, and the military attache is hippocampus. When a common woman marries, she can also enjoy the privilege of wearing a crown robe or flower hairpin as a women's dress. The bride wears a crowned dress or hairpin, a red hijab, a red silk blouse or a round neck dress, a red skirt, red trousers and red satin embroidered shoes. From then on, she had the most typical, China, traditional wedding dress.

The rockhopper, named after the phoenix ornament, is the king of birds, so only the queen or princess deserves it. Generally, it is only worn at grand celebrations, such as weddings, and ordinary people can't wear it. An ancient costume worn over the shoulders. Until the Qing Dynasty, Han women still wore such traditional clothes to get married and never wore flag clothes.

Wedding dresses from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China

(4) Wedding dresses from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China

At the beginning of the 20th century, the wedding celebrations in China still maintained the traditional style since the Ming Dynasty. China's traditional wedding dress is still a robe and jacket with a horse hook. The official uniform of Qing officials is a symbol of power and status. Because it is covered with brilliant jewels, it is extremely graceful and gorgeous, which has become the admiration of the people for dignitaries and gradually evolved into the wedding dress of giant Tian Xiu. When a daughter of a general family gets married, she can only wear a big red dress, add a red veil and embroidered shoes and carry it into her husband's house in a red sedan chair, because it also symbolizes auspiciousness and pays attention to "red".

During the period of the Republic of China, the traditional bride dress of the Han nationality was an upper coat and a lower skirt, the coat was red or turquoise, and the skirt was red, which was called "red wedding dress", wearing a rockhopper, and the groom's dress was a robe and jacket. Rich people pay attention to materials and have decorations such as embroidery.

19 19 before the may 4th movement, China people still advocated red wedding, and couples were absolutely forbidden to wear white clothes. In the 1920s, Western-style wedding dresses appeared in China and gradually penetrated into the wedding culture in China. Since 1930s, white wedding dresses have become popular in big cities such as Shanghai. It became a fashion around the 1940s.

From the 1920s to 1930s, due to the influence of western culture and marriage customs, the groom wore a suit and tie, a dress, a western hat and sunglasses, and the bride wore a wedding dress and a Chinese cheongsam sewn with white satin.

In 1950s, with the change of political system, the wedding dress evolved into the groom's blue tunic suit and the bride's cheongsam or red dress.

From the late 1960s to the 1970s, wedding dresses also experienced a "great reform". Both the bride and groom wear blue uniforms, while the fashionable ones wear green uniforms. It's really "revolutionary couple, don't like red makeup but love green makeup".

In the early 1980s, with the deepening of reform and opening-up, China's traditional wedding dress began to be in line with foreign countries, and it became fashionable and mainstream for the groom to wear a suit and the bride to wear a wedding dress.

In the 1990s, the wedding photo studio set off a trend in Hong Kong and Taiwan. With the popularity of wedding photography, wedding rental has also swept the country. People's enthusiasm for taking new wedding photos even exceeds the sacredness of wearing wedding dresses. The wedding photos of thousands of people have become the "eternal memory" of a generation.

From the 1990s to today, there are many kinds of wedding dresses, and more and more couples choose the wedding dress that best reflects their personality. No matter China people or westerners, Han people or ethnic minorities, as long as you can think of them, you will be satisfied.

(5) Cheongsam, the representative of wedding dresses in China today.

After the Revolution of 1911, the traditional wedding dresses in China mainly included dresses and cheongsam. Dresses include dinner clothes, customer service delivery clothes, door-to-door clothes and so on. : Tailored to show the beauty of women's lines. And use brocade, silk and high-grade fabrics with auspicious and festive pictures and texts. Modern cheongsam's diverse leaders, exquisite embroidery, sparkling beaded patterns or decorations all highlight the uniqueness of the nation and become the representative dress of Chinese weddings.

Cheongsam was originally the dress of Manchu women. After the Revolution of 1911, Han women also adopted it and became the main dress at weddings. After continuous improvement, the general style of cheongsam is straight collar, wide on the right, waist-tied, knee-high, split on both sides, divided into long sleeves and short sleeves. The most exquisite decoration on cheongsam is lace. Early Qing dynasty, narrow edge, pigment. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, skirts became wider and wider, and lace rolled more and more, from three sets of three rolls, five sets of five rolls to "eighteen sets of rolls". Skirts and hems also have various patterns made of different gems and plates. Or hollowed out lace and inlaid with various patterns. This kind of clothes, because it is too luxurious, can hardly see the original texture when worn outside. When women wore cheongsam in Qing dynasty, they also wore flowerpot shoes, which were four or five inches high, wide and round, and shaped like flowerpots, so they were commonly called "flowerpot bottoms". It is also called "horseshoe bottom" because its bottom is cut into a horseshoe shape, and the imprint on the ground is like a horseshoe.

Cheongsam has been popular at weddings since the early 1990s, but at that time it was basically red and varied in styles. For more than ten years, wedding cheongsam has been enriched in color, style and texture, and has become the eternal love of oriental brides. Chinese bridal cheongsam can perfectly show the classical beauty of the bride, so it is deeply loved by modern brides.

Modern cheongsam is improved on the basis of Manchu flag dress, and has become the main dress for traditional weddings of women in China. Excellent materials, appropriate tailoring, exquisite borders and buckles. Wearing it can better reflect the graceful posture and elegant and dignified demeanor of oriental women. Therefore, many foreign fashion designers say that it embodies the traditional aesthetic consciousness of China's fashion design, which is called the wisdom and crystallization of China's fashion design. As a dress for solemn occasions such as weddings and banquets, cheongsam is particularly eye-catching. Therefore, the beauty of cheongsam has another meaning: it not only shows respect for the occasion and the host, but also contains the love for national costumes, and at the same time shows unique and extraordinary personality characteristics.