Was the armor of the Qing Dynasty graded?

Armor grades in Qing Dynasty: Royal Armor, Eight Banners Armor, Official Armor and Ordinary Official Armor.

1. Royal armor is luxuriously decorated, with exquisite materials and fine workmanship. Mainly used for big reading. Emperor Qianlong's armor is different from that worn on the battlefield. It is characterized by replacing metal with gold thread and embroidering golden patterns on yellow satin instead of metal leaves on armor.

Painted black with leather tires, decorated with gold and pearls, surrounded by dragon patterns, alternating Sanskrit and garlands. The top of the roof is inlaid with gold wire, embedded with more than 70 rubies and big pearls. The neck protector, ear protector and neck protector are all decorated with dragon patterns.

2. The armor of the Eight Banners soldiers in Qing Dynasty is made of leather and painted with dark paint, which is strong and heavy. The suit is yellow, with a yellow flag with yellow and red edges, a white flag with white edges, a red flag with red edges, a blue flag with red edges and a blue flag with blue edges, all of which are inlaid with copper foam nails. A cotton cloth as lining, silk as surface layer and silk cotton as medium.

3. There were three kinds of official armour and nine kinds of official armour in Qing Dynasty. The differences between different levels of official helmets are mainly reflected in the carving of accessories on the top and body of armor, as well as the embroidery on the neck, neck and ear protectors.

4. The armor of ordinary officers and men in the Qing Dynasty, without protective glasses, is made of cotton armor, which is a bell armor inlaid with iron pieces on thick cotton cloth or silk and fixed with copper nails. It looks like a cotton coat. Cotton armour has certain cold resistance, which is suitable for cavalry in northern China. The thick cloth is densely embedded with iron armor leaves, which has certain protective ability against cold weapons and firearms.

Extended data:

Armor in Qing dynasty is all cloth armor, which consists of outer layer (including surface layer, inner layer and edge) and inner layer, namely protective layer. The materials and colors of textiles used in different armor outer layers may also be different, such as satin, silk and cotton cloth. And there are more colors.

There are also two material structures of the protective layer, one is composed of armor plate, and the other is made of cotton soaked and compacted. Armor with armor plate as the inner layer is called cloth armor, and armor with cotton as the inner layer is called cotton armor. No matter what kind of interlayer is used, a large number of nails are needed to fix the inner layer and the outer layer together. Nails are made of different materials, such as gold, silver and copper.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-armor

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Gan Long Reading Armor