What are the main elements of practice clothes

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The practice clothes are the main equipment needed to belong to the practice of taijiquan, the main categories of loose long-sleeved with long pants lantern sleeves and lantern pants, clothing elements Chinese discus, discus and so on.

With the promotion of China's national fitness, taijiquan as a national unarmed cultural heritage, more and more middle-aged and elderly people and young people are joining the exercise army, so the practice of clothing is more and more popularized by the public.

Expanding knowledge: what are the main elements of the practice clothes

1, loose

Taijiquan clothes are loose, the body is not constrained by the constraints and restraints, so that can be free, the breath is coherent and smooth.

2. Long Sleeves and Long Pants

Traditionally, Taijiquan uniforms are made of long sleeves and long pants, and hats, gloves and scarves are not allowed to be worn when practicing Taijiquan. However, nowadays Taijiquan is mainly for fitness, so the requirements are not so strict, but when practicing, the human body will sweat, and the joints will also sweat, and if the wind blows, it will lead to discomfort and even disease, so it is still appropriate to wear long sleeves and long pants.

3, lantern sleeves and lantern pants

We can see that most of the tai chi suits are in the style of lantern sleeves and lantern pants (of course, the new open mouth tai chi suits are not included in this example) Why is this? We can try to lift the hands and legs, if not the effect of a large lantern, is not the wrist and ankle leak out.

4, the elements of traditional clothing

The most intuitive is the Chinese plate buckle, plate buckle, also known as the plate button, is with the Manchu dress and the rise of the plate buckle can be described as a symbol of traditional Chinese clothing culture. In ancient times, China used long sashes to bind loose clothes. After the Yuan and Ming dynasties, they gradually used disk buttons to connect the lapels, and used cloth strips to weave into various patterns, called disk flowers. The role of plate buckle in the evolution of Chinese clothing gradually changed, it not only has the function of connecting the lapel, but also known as the finishing touch of decorative clothing. It vividly expresses the decorative interest of Chinese clothing, which emphasizes the meaning, connotation and theme.

In recent years, plate buckle as a traditional means of decorative clothing and popular for a while. Then practice clothes can not be missing! Traditional Tai Chi clothing basically choose a word disc buckle, simple and elegant and atmospheric, do not underestimate the simple disc buckle, each small disc buckle to sew on at least fifteen stitches, and is purely handmade hand-sewn embedded, and each stitch should be neat and even, plus the disc buckle is the accent of the whole garment can be said to be the most important, a single disc buckle is a big project.

5, stand-up collar

National dress in the stand-up collar that is the Ming stand-up collar, first appeared in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, to the late Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains and Jiangnan has been widely popular, when the Ming Dynasty is experiencing a thousand years of the Little Ice Age, the climate is unusually cold, the stand-up collar came into being. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the high collar and plated button style had basically formed the prototype of the present cheongsam. After the Manchus entered the country, in the "men from the women do not from" under the provisions of the service system, Han Chinese women were able to follow the use of Ming-style stand-up jacket and pasted together and other so-called "Han Chinese clothes".

In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the Ming-style collar (square collar, two metal buttons) further evolved, the square collar became a curved collar, and incorporated many Manchu elements (piping - large wide edge, centipede disk), the Ming collar became more popular, and in the Republic of China, the collar became a constituent element of the clothing such as the Zhongshan suit and the cheongsam. In the Republican period, the collar became an integral part of the Zhongshan costume and the cheongsam, and it is still an important element of today's Taiji costume. A small collar can make a big difference in the effect of the whole garment, and a finely crafted collar will make the garment exquisite and straight.

Traditional clothing is a continuous sleeve, there is no shoulder, so the production of the collar is particularly important, otherwise the whole garment will appear to have no spirit, so the production process, the choice of lining are extremely careful.

6, edging

We all know that whether the workmanship of the practice clothes is of high quality, a large part of it depends on the edging process of the clothing. The earliest Taiji clothing due to the conditions of most of the limitations are not hemmed, to the modern era began to appear the process of rolling the edge, that is, the cut piece itself rolled out and then wrapped back, sewing out the effect of hemmed, has made the clothing appear more delicate.

As the sewing equipment becomes more and more advanced, the process of wrapping appeared again, that is, outside the clothing cut piece is attached to a single production of a good lapel cloth strips, will be wrapped in the outside of the lapel, and sometimes according to personal preferences can also choose a different color of the wrapping, so it is a big difference in the practice of the suit. Up to this point, the modernization of taiji clothing has been basically formed, that is, we have seen more on the market style of taiji clothing.

7, sleeve

Some people have asked, why can't the whole sleeve down together, have to take a cut? First of all, as a typical traditional clothing, Taiji suit is not allowed to be up-sleeved (except for new special styles), otherwise it will be missing the traditional elements, and up-sleeved is a fashionable practice, and the effect of up-sleeved Taiji suit is easy to make the line of frame constraints, not enough to be free, which is contrary to the essence of the Taijiquan flow of water and clouds.

Secondly, the general clothing fabric is only about 1.5 meters even if it is a wide fabric, and the big body of Taiji clothes is cut into a whole sheet of fabric, so if it is not connected with the sleeve, it can only be made into a short-sleeved shirt. So it is inevitable that the sleeves of Taiji suit are two sections, either at the shoulder or at the arm. Of course, in order to make the taiji uniform more standardized, more comfortable and more beautiful, the sleeve is basically at the arm. This section of the sleeve, we call "small sleeve".

8, version

Good version to wear up so that people have smooth lines, although the Taiji suit is extremely loose, but does not mean that people wear up to be bloated drag, but if the person is elegant, elegant, elegant, elegant and dashing for the right, to put it plainly, if the Taiji suit is not beautiful then I'm afraid that the people who are keen on Taijiquan will become less right, it's a joke, the viewer is not to be blamed.