What is the Five Clothes System and why was it formed?

The five-suit system refers to the funeral and burial system, which is also known as the funeral clothing system because people of different blood affinities wear different funeral clothing, and its formation follows and integrates the traditional Confucian ideas of rituals and laws. Wearing funeral clothes not only represents a person's mourning for the deceased, but also sends a strong or shallow condolences, and wearing different funeral clothes can make it clear at a glance the deceased's blood relations.

The specific five-suit system actually refers to five different grades of mourning clothes, which are ? Chopped bad, Qi bad, big work, small work, fine linen? The difference between these five kinds of mourning clothes are mainly three points: fabric, workmanship, and wearing time, take Chop Fail for example, it is the fabric is raw coarse linen, in the measurement of clothing must be used to cut the fabric with a knife, can not be used with scissors, and therefore is called ? Therefore, it is called "Chopping".

This kind of linen garment is roughly made with burlap, and it is worn by those who are closest to the deceased.

According to the records, Chopping is generally used for children, husband and wife, and ruler and ministers, but there is a special case in which the father wears Chopping for the first-born son, which is also due to the special status of the first-born son. Simply put,the ancients believed that the less the mind to take care of their own clothes and appearance of the person the more grief, wearing hemp clothes the worse the fabric, the more rough the workmanship, wearing time is also the longer. These five kinds of mourning clothes, though of different grades, are all hemp clothes, and the so-called "wearing hemp and mourning" is just that.

Historical records before the Western Zhou Dynasty, when the mourning clothes were called ? The mourning clothes were called "plain clothes", and the mourning clothes were called "mourning clothes".



The first time I saw a man in a funeral pyjamas was when he was being buried by his father, Duke Xiang, in the Spring and Autumn period, when he was being buried by his father, Duke Xiang, in the Spring and Autumn period, when he was being buried by his father, Duke Xiang, in the Spring and Autumn period. At the time of the Warring States period, when social etiquette was in serious disarray, Confucianism began with the system of mourning garments and continued to modify and improve it, ultimately resulting in the system of five garments that has been passed down to the present day.