Ancient Chinese Dress Colors

The red color of the Zhou Dynasty was the color of high-ranking clothes. During the Qin Dynasty (221- 206 BC), black was the color of clothes for the highest status, and the emperors and officials all wore black clothes. After the destruction of Qin by the Han Dynasty, the color yellow was gradually adopted as the highest status clothing color, and the emperors wore yellow clothes. To the Tang Dynasty, the court ordered that, in addition to the emperor, officials are not officials are not allowed to wear yellow clothes.

Since then, this provision has continued to the last dynasty of feudal China. The emperor's clothes were mostly Xuan clothes. Xuan is black and crimson is reddish-red. Two colors were used for the coronation garments, the upper to symbolize the unbright sky and the lower to symbolize the land of dusk.

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Ancient Clothing:

If you go by population ratios, almost all humans today wear clothes. But it is not known when humans first got into the habit of wearing clothes, and ordinary clothing disintegrates within decades under natural conditions, making it difficult to obtain information about it using archaeology.

Today's knowledge of the prehistory of clothing is largely based on circumstantial evidence such as the tools that may have been used to make it, portraits of primitive people, and even biological studies.

Mitochondrial DNA testing of a louse living on human clothing in the early 21st century showed that the organism had become separated from lice parasitized in human hair more than 72 (±42) million years ago.

This suggests that humans began wearing clothing for extended periods of time about 100,000 years ago, a time close to the African origin hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, highly intelligent humans left Africa 100,000 years ago and entered the relatively cold region of Eurasia. Tools that may be bone needles have been found as early as 30,000 B.C. in the Russian region.

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