What is the queen's costume?

The costumes of each dynasty are different. Briefly introduce the costumes of the more representative Ming and Qing Empresses:

1. The empress of the Ming Dynasty wore a dragon and phoenix crown, a red sleeve, a red dress and a red lapel. The first special bun was decorated with dragons and phoenixes and embroidered with golden dragon and phoenix patterns.

Skirt is the most representative style of women's clothing from the court to the folk in Ming Dynasty. The upper part is short (coat, coat), and the lower part is mainly horse-faced skirt, decorated with skirts. At the beginning, the tops were mostly lapel white-collar workers, and in the later period, they were mostly stand-up collars. The sleeves are curved pipa sleeves with narrow cuffs or white sleeves. The clothes are outside the skirt, short to the waist and long to the knees.

2. The clothes of the Qing Empress The royal clothes of the Empress include crowns, robes, robes, skirts and beads. Crown, smoked mink in winter, green velvet in summer, with red hat weft on it. There are three floors at the top and three floors of golden phoenix, one of which runs through the East Pearl. There are golden phoenix and orbs on the hat weft. The crown is decorated with a gold Zhai, and the tail of the Zhai hangs five elements of pearls, with 320 pearls. Each line is decorated with lapis lazuli, Dongzhu and other precious stones, and the end is also decorated with coral. The robe is made of bright yellow satin, which is divided into two categories: winter and summer, and mink edge in winter.

The basic style of robes consists of lapels, shoulder pads and robes. The collar is embroidered with a dragon pattern. Hanging in the morning is a kind of clothing worn outside the robe. Its style is double-breasted, collarless and sleeveless, and looks like a vest. Also embroidered with dragon rhyme, eight treasures and other patterns. Empresses in the Qing Dynasty usually wore the same clothes as other concubines except the crown clothes. They are all Yishui's flag clothes, but the queen can use bright yellow.

Clothing system is one of the important contents of etiquette system in past dynasties. The style, texture, pattern and color of clothing represent the identity and status of the wearer.

After the Qing Dynasty pacified the Central Plains, the imperial queen's crown dress went through a process of development and perfection, until the Qianlong Dynasty formulated the Imperial Ceremony Schema, which basically formed a formula, and it was used until the end of the Qing Dynasty. Due to the need of establishing and carrying out the clothing system, the Qing Dynasty, shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China in the early Qing Dynasty, was eager to resume the weaving production in the south of the Yangtze River, squeeze money to buy silk, recruit craftsmen to weave according to patterns, and took crown clothing weaving as an important task, and personally asked questions, and established Jiangning (Nanjing), Jiangsu and Hangzhou three weaving.

The dress system in Qing Dynasty is more complicated than that in any Han Dynasty. In addition to retaining the basic form of his national hat and arrow costume, he also learned a lot from the treasure house of Han costume culture with thousands of years of tradition, forming a unique crown costume system in Qing Dynasty.

Extended data:

Among the costumes at all levels in the Qing Dynasty, the most representative ones are the costumes of the Supreme Emperor and Empress. There is little difference between the queen's crown dress and the emperor's crown dress, but there are differences between men and women in form, which can be found in Huidian, including dresses and auspicious clothes. In the Qing dynasty, the queen's crown had strict and detailed regulations on style, texture, pattern, color and various decorations.

The queen's dresses (that is, court dresses) include court crowns, court tops, court robes, court skirts, gold contracts, collar contracts, earrings, court beading, court dresses and so on.

And important celebrations. When you wear it, the skirt is in the room, then you wear a robe and a gown.

Empresses include Ji, Longgua, Longpao, Ji and Zhu. , it is worn in regular dynasties and general festivals.

The queen's uniform is not recorded in the service system, but it exists from the physical objects and literature records. Its form should be similar to the emperor's uniform. In other words, the color and pattern of the uniform robe are what you want, and the color of the uniform robe is azurite, which should be worn every day. In the late Qing dynasty, there appeared the sinicized form of "broad clothes and big sleeves" such as clothes and shirts.

There are tens of thousands of costumes handed down from the Qing Dynasty in the Palace Museum in Beijing, which are precious materials for studying the costume system, embroidery technology and social and economic life in the Qing Dynasty.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Crown Dress of Empress of Qing Dynasty