Who's wearing a horse face skirt?

Horse-face skirt, also known as horse-face pleated skirt, is one of the main dresses of ancient women in China.

There are four skirt doors in front and back, which overlap each other. The outer skirt door is decorated, and the inner skirt door is decorated with little or no decoration. There are folds on the side of the horse-faced skirt, and the waist of the skirt is mostly white cloth, which means to grow old together. Horse-faced skirt is the most typical style of women's wear in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Its style ranges from fresh and elegant in the Ming Dynasty to gorgeous and rich in the Qing Dynasty, and then to pure and simple in the Republic of China.

The word "horse face" first appeared in the history of the Forbidden City in Ming Dynasty: it was spread, its back was constantly made, but it was placed on both sides, with two pieces in front and horse face pleats on the bottom, starting from both sides, but the history of horse face skirt can be traced back to Song Dynasty, because the skirt in Song Dynasty already had the horse face shape of horse face skirt.

Cultural characteristics

Horseshoe skirts are brightly colored, mostly red, and blue is also common. Red is the most popular color in China traditional culture, because it represents auspiciousness and celebration. According to the custom of Han nationality, women usually wear red skirts at weddings and festivals. In the Qing dynasty, blue horse-faced skirts were also common. As popular colors at that time, they were often paired with black and yellow.

The pattern of horse-face skirt can be divided into single embroidered cloth pattern and large-area embroidered cloth pattern, of which single embroidered cloth pattern accounts for the majority. Each of these patterns conveys different meanings, such as animal patterns. In the traditional historical development, dragon and phoenix patterns have always accompanied everyone in China, and most of them appeared in the costumes of every emperor and concubine in the harem. Dragon and phoenix also symbolize the beautiful marriage of love between men and women.