What is the origin of the traditional dress cape?

When a commoner woman gets married, she can enjoy the honor of wearing the cape, which belongs to the dress of the wife of the bride, just as a commoner man can wear the uniform of the ninth-grade official when he is welcomed in person.　　

It is said that the red wedding dress originated from the precedent of the prospective commoner man with a reddish-red gauze robe to welcome in person, probably in the Tang Dynasty or so; but in reality until the Song Dynasty, the wedding dress of the palace matron was still green. "True red lapel large-sleeved shirt + Feng Guanxia cape" appeared in the Ming Dynasty is more certain, the origin of this very late wedding style is currently the national mind understanding of the Chinese wedding dress, and y rooted.

Orthodox history of the Ming dynasty "wedding five" in: "the children and grandchildren of magistrates fake nine products, the rest of the soap shirt folded on the scarf."

And in the Ming Dynasty, a variety of theater, novels on the groom, especially the bride's dress is described in great detail. For example, the "Waking World Marriage Biography" describes: "Di Xichen public dress riding a horse, hairpin wearing red, Tong sent sister wearing a large red ramie silk unicorn through the sleeves of the robe, plain light silver belt, covered with the King of the Wen Bai Zi brocade baggage, four large sedan chair, twelve drummers, to welcome the marriage to the apartment." And then the popular novel "Jin Ping Mei" in the late Ming Dynasty, there are also a lot of the bride's attire and wedding description.　　

Contrasting the image of the performance of the Ming Dynasty prints and paintings and operas since the Qing Dynasty, the groom in the Ming Dynasty should be dressed in a round necked suit, rather than wearing a spreading feet of the head of the suit, round necked suit, also known as the suit, also seen in the canon: "All civil and military officials to see the matter of the regular court to a hat, a group of collared shirts and belts for the public service." The common dress with hairpin and red color is very consistent with the image of the groom in various arts since the Ming Dynasty. Pin officials and their children and grandchildren of the regular clothes should be decorated with this level of filler, and the color is not specific for red, should be like the regular system of color is not constrained, but does not rule out the gradual formation of specific color habits in the wedding, details to be examined.

And the commoner groom with a soap shirt folded scarf, there is no typical image of the world, or may not be bound to a, with the use of the men's dress may also be. Groom wearing soap shirt at first glance with the general understanding of different, but we can see later similar image, the Qing Dynasty men married to wear black and blue dress (Republic of China period can also see the groom Phi red wearing azure waistcoat, for the men's dress at the time), and close to such as Japan, as far as Thailand and Western countries, the groom wore a black gown is also coincidental. But exactly how the Ming Dynasty people need to be examined in detail.　　

Bridal attire, the canon is only contained in the "dress", also when the woman was a big dress, such as Zhai crown, big shirt, cape, etc., from the novel depictions as well as other artistic images, the bride of the later period of time, such as the basic attire of the fate of the woman, wearing a phoenix (Zhai) Crown, wearing a big red round-necked robes, without a big shirt, cape, or use or not use, covered with brocade baggage (cover), girdle. ), belt. This image of the continuation of the Qing Dynasty and to today can still be seen with the same type of costume.