Ancient clothing, types of fabric. Slightly more detailed.

Mandarin ducks qi, three pike Luo, cui wool brocade three famous brocades in ancient China. Four famous Chinese embroideries: Suzhou embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Cantonese embroidery and Shu embroidery.?

Shang Zhou (about 16th century BC ~ 771 BC) From the Shang Dynasty to the Western Zhou, it was a period in which the hierarchical upper and lower garment system and the crown and clothing system were gradually established. Clothing materials of the Shang Dynasty were mainly leather, leather, silk and hemp. Due to the progress of textile technology, silk and linen fabrics have played an important role.

Shang dynasty people have been able to fine weaving very thin silk, jacquard geometric pattern brocade, qi, and stranded loom of rosa, clothing with heavy color. Spring and Autumn and Warring States period (770 ~ 221 BC) Spring and Autumn and Warring States period of weaving and embroidery technology of the great progress, so that the clothing material is increasingly fine, varieties of names are increasingly numerous. The flower brocade of Xiangyi in Henan Province, and the ice dandy, qi, onyx, and textile embroidery of Qilu in Shandong Province were popular all over the country.

The spread of craftsmanship, so that a variety of exquisite clothing and costumes stand out. Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, not only the princes and lords themselves in a gorgeous dress, from the ministers and secretaries are also feet decorated with pearls and guillotines, waist gold and jade, clothes and fur, crown and shoes, all seek to be expensive. Men's and women's hats, more striking, delicate with thin as a cicada wing gauze, precious with gold and jade; shape such as overlay cup on the shrug.

Women love to use fur set in the cuffs of the edge of the clothes to make the front, as well as half of the type of thin brocade gloves with exposed fingers, all exceptionally beautiful. Pre-qin time there is no cotton, the so-called 'cloth clothes' refers to the clothes cut from hemp cloth. The fine linen worn in summer was called Ge, and the winter clothes were robes and fur. Robe is worn inside the jacket, the inner solid silk, filled with new cotton called ????????????????????????, filled with old wadding called robe.

The poor can not afford to fill the silk, only to fill some broken hemp, called hemp robe. Because the robe was an undergarment, it could only be worn at home, but could not be used as a dress, and could only be lined under the formal dress when going out. The short robe was called 襦, or jacket as it was later called. The coarse-textured jacket was called brown. Fur was a leather coat, which was also the main winter coat in the pre-Qin era.

Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C. to 220 A.D.) Clothing materials in this period were richer than those in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, and the deep coat was newly developed. Particularly in the Han Dynasty, with the establishment of the mikoshi system, the dress of the official rank hierarchy distinction is also more strict. The fabrics of Qin and Han clothing were still heavily embroidered. Embroidery patterns mostly have mountains, clouds, birds and animals or vine plant patterns, brocade has a variety of complex geometric diamond pattern, as well as weaving text through the width of the pattern.

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Ancient Clothing, the evolution of the history of the fabric:

Chinese clothing, like Chinese culture, is the generation of the mutual penetration of the various ethnic groups and their influence. Since the Han and Tang dynasties, especially after the modern era, a large number of absorbed and melted the excellent crystallization of foreign cultures of the world's various nationalities, and only then was able to evolve into the overall so-called China's clothing culture with the Han as the main body.

The achievements of archaeology and paleoanthropology after the establishment of new China have scientifically traced the origin of dress culture back to the late Paleolithic period of the primitive society, to the stage of the cavemen. At a much more distant time before that, human beings began to use animal skins obtained from hunting to cover and protect their bodies and keep warm. In summer, they picked leaves to shield themselves from the sun and the heat.

This marks the beginning of the emergence of primitive clothing as humans just left the animal kingdom. The remains of the caveman found in the use of sewing processing as the characteristics of the clothing culture. At this time, the clothing is no longer simply the use of natural materials, but evolved into a structure that meets the needs of human life, creating a precedent for the Chinese clothing culture.

The historical origin of China's dress culture is always attributed to the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors if one searches for it from the classics. This era, from the archaeological excavation of cultural remains, should be in the five or six thousand years ago in the primitive society of the matriarchal clan commune of the prosperity of the period.

The physical objects unearthed within this period include spinning wheels, bone needles, outline pendants, etc., and fragments of textiles have been unearthed. The pottery paintings on the colored pottery unearthed in Gansu in the central plains of China have vividly and graphically depicted the shape of the upper garment connected to the lower garment.

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