Spring and Autumn Period Dress Characteristics Spring and Autumn Period Men and Women Wear What Clothes

The Spring and Autumn Period changed from slavery to feudalism. Such a change brought a different impact on the culture. So did the costumes. During the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, each vassal state was governed separately, and each of them had different cultural customs, which led to the distinctive dresses of different regions and countries. And this period of weaving and embroidery technology of the great progress, but also to make the dress materials increasingly fine, varieties of names are becoming more and more numerous. So what did men and women wear in the Spring and Autumn period, with the question, I will tell you about the characteristics of the Spring and Autumn period clothing.　　

Spring and Autumn period clothing characteristics

The original region, located in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, for the Zhou and the three Jin Jin is located, although there are different dresses, but since the Western Zhou simple train cross-collar clothing has always been in the mainstream. This kind of clothing style, usually for the upper garment under the clothes even belonging to the knee-length clothes, curved collar right obeisance. Central Plains since the Spring and Autumn popular with a hook, leather belt belt belt custom, can be seen in the unearthed portraits. And the belt bundle method, one for the belt hooks hooked leather belt at the other end of the small hole, another method for the belt hooks hooked leather belt at the other end of the ring attached. Band hook material has gold, jade, copper, iron, bone, wood, pottery and so on, the shape of the complicated and simple, fine workmanship of the wrong gold carving embedded jade, style is extremely elaborate.

Qilu region is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the local women good left high bun. Long skirt waist trailing, narrow and long-sleeved, different from the central plains of the three Jin area women's "deep clothes", Wen color is divided into red, yellow, black and brown stripes. Shandong long island found in the warring states qi nobleman tomb unearthed by the female terracotta figurines hair is high bun, double bun, after drooping hair three kinds; Upper garment for the narrow long-sleeved, cross-necked right obeisance, mostly light blue, there are yellow, red; Lower garment for the long skirt, seems to be attached to the upper garment, more decorated with red, black straight stripes, along the straight stripes plus the application of white dots, with a bundle of red, white sash. The same tomb unearthed on the bronze identification of the portrait dress, hunters for the top short hakama, picking up the burden for the knee-length robes, music and dance, the Royal, cooks, etc., are long trailing, but also behind the drag "Swallow Tail", such unearthed artifacts truly reflect the characteristics of the people's clothing.

Northern regions such as Zhongshan and Yan, dress similar to the Sanjin region. In the late Warring States Zhongshan King's tomb unearthed silver head of the human bronze lamps can be seen in the head of the eyes embedded in black stones, thick eyebrows, lips stay neat short beard, like a male image. Hair back comb, gathered in the back of the head for the big bun, to the other Towers for the butterfly knot, the top of the head and wear a fill in the jade, tassel along the left and right ears in front of the lower knot under the jaw; dressed in a wide cuffs of the cross-collar, right-over-obeisance "deep clothes", curved according to the wrapping of the body of the multilayered, was a "swallow-tailed" trailing the ground, the belt with belt hooks and rings with the system, the pattern on the clothes between fill in Zhu, the lips to stay neat short beard like a male image. Clothing pattern filled with Zhu, black lacquer, there are wider "pure", both the characteristics of QiYiJin belt, but also has the northern style. Burial pit of four small jade people, female hair combed into a cow horn-shaped double bun, quite similar to the Houma Jin humanoid ceramic Fan on the crescent-shaped crown; children are knotted on top of the head in a round bun; clothing style or moment collar right obeisance, or the upper garment under the skirt, feet, under the exposure of a skirt, with a belt, skirts have the size of the square lattice pattern.　

Northwest Qin dress, thick and easy to use, but less gorgeous flavor. Of course, the exceptions were the powerful and the rich, and a pair of jade soles was unearthed in the tomb of the Duke of Qin in Yongcheng. In six late Spring and Autumn period Qin tombs in Tongchuan Zaomiao, Shaanxi province, eight clay figurines were unearthed, all of which were dressed in tight-sleeved, right-over-right waisted robes, with black collars and lapels decorated with red dots and black and red, and either knee-length or hanging down to the foot; and the shoes were divided into two types: black, rounded-toe and square-toe ones. Qin Xianyang Palace found a bag of charred silk clothes, a single coat, clothes, cotton clothes, brocade, qi, silk several kinds, mostly plain fabric. Qin people's clothing focus on practicality. Qin people dress and because of the geographical environment and living habits usually have threefold, in order of sweatshirt, robe cocoon, long Confucian, right overlooking cross-collar, collar on the neck of Yong, in order to respond to changes in the climate cold and cold. Its long jacket is also only short to the knee, girded with a belt, which is conducive to easy movement.

Sun Quan and Sun Quan are located in the southeast corner, located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the clothing is clumsy and stylish, conservative and with a change. The local people have long maintained a customized style of dress. In terms of hair style, the local people mainly cut their hair and are good at combing. According to jiangsu dantu north hill top spring and autumn wu big tomb excavated hong staff squat part of the kneeling bronze, can know the so-called wu people "hair short", refers to its hair is the top of the forehead and sideburns hair cut short, not for all the scalping into a short punch, the rest of the maintenance of the original shape, after combing bundles after the brain for the chignon. To maintain this short hair shape, I am afraid that every once in a while to be cut.

Chu is located in the Jianghan region, the power across the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River part of the region, Chu clothing has always been the reputation of light and beautiful. Chu tombs around the successive discovery of leather gloves, leather shoes, hemp shoes and a large number of painted wooden, ceramic, jade figurines, including "遣策 "recorded all kinds of clothing curls, such as with the "Chu speech" in the depiction of the dress with reference to the Chu people can not be appreciated clothing light and delicate, crown scarf hat of the strange, the style of the variety of flashy.

Between the Jianghuai small countries, by the north and south of the constraints of the big country, the fashion of its clothing is also y affected. Such as Ji Zeng country, for the south of the vassal state of Chu, dress fresh Central Plains style and have a strong Chu clothing features. Another example is the yellow state located in the south of the Huai Shui River, which is close to the dress style of the northern powers.

To summarize, although the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period of the clothing system between the various regions have interactive influence, each other have to take, but there is always its own style taste. From a macroscopic point of view, it can be said that the simplicity of the dress of the Central Plains of Zhou and Sanjin, the Shuyu of the dress of Qilu in the East, the reservedness of the dress of Zhongshan and Yan in the North, the thickness of the dress of the Qin in the Northwest, the clumsiness of the dress of Wu and Yue in the Southeast, the lightness of the dress of the Chud in the South, and the relaxation of the dress of Sichuan in the Southwest, converge into an era of dress of the oceanic view of the different dress styles and it is also the treasure trove of the glory of the ancient Chinese dress.