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What colors do Taoist vestments have?

Yellow: written by the king, it is the best in cassock. Shi Tian Lord often wears a yellow robe. Zi: A master gives lectures, or he can be an old minister of Shi Tian. Red: Written by a senior mage, used to pray on the table above. Cyan: Written by a medium mage. It is usually used for worship and birthday celebration. Green: written by inferior wizards, and also written by scattered gods. Black: The bucket is open. White: It's hidden.

Yellow: written by the king, it is the best in cassock. Shi Tian Lord often wears a yellow robe. Zi: A master gives lectures, or he can be an old minister of Shi Tian. Red: Written by a senior mage, used to pray on the table above. Cyan: Written by a medium mage. It is usually used for worship and birthday celebration. Green: written by inferior wizards, and also written by scattered gods. Black: The bucket is open. White: It's hidden.

The cassock has two meanings:

A kind of "pleat" originated from the ancient Hanfu in China (it is said that it was made by Zhou Wuwang) and evolved into a Taoist robe in the Ming Dynasty. It is a coat worn by men at home in the Ming Dynasty, and it can also be used as a lining robe or wedding dress for ordinary men. Later, it died out under the policy of "shaving and changing clothes" in the early Qing Dynasty. It is characterized by straight collar, big chest, split sides and dark pendulum, and is one of the most distinctive traditional costumes of the Han nationality.

The other is Taoist costumes. Taoist robes refer to the robes worn by Taoist priests outside. It can be divided into more than six kinds of clothes, such as gown, Dele, quit suit, cassock, floral suit and vest suit, all of which are fat and loose to contain dry Kun and block dust. And show a straight collar to mistress. The Taoist robes have been handed down from generation to generation in an orderly way, and the authenticity of the Taoist robes has never been determined.

Robes are blue, gray, yellow, brown and crimson. Their shapes are: straight collar, large lapel, right lapel, large sleeve, collar decorated with white collar, left and right hem of clothing, and one piece of front lapel (large lapel, small lapel) swinging inward on both sides, and sewn inside the back lapel after pleating.

Taoist robes were very popular in Ming Dynasty, and they were typical casual clothes. Taoism was the state religion in Ming Dynasty, and Taoist robes were regarded as one of the main daily clothes from the emperor to the literati. The shape of the robe is: straight collar, large lapel, right lapel, large sleeve, white collar, left and right hem of the body, the two sides of the front lapel (large lapel and small lapel) are connected by inner swing, and sewn inside the back lapel after pleating.

Taoist robes are also divided into two series, namely uniforms and vestments. The main uniforms are robes and Taoist robes. The sleeves of the coat are one foot four inches wide, the right armpit is open, and there are two streamers; China jackets are mostly double-breasted. Taoist robes, also known as "Rhodes", are similar to robes. The sleeves are more than one foot and eight inches wide. They are blue and blue, symbolizing the sky and atmosphere of the eastern sun.

Extended data:

Taoist robes were very popular in the Ming Dynasty. It is almost the "standard" of literati, and it is precisely because of this that people call this kind of clothes Taoist robes, because literati know a lot. With the change of fashion, the length of robes and the width of sleeves often change. By the end of the Ming dynasty, the "big sleeves" of robes had developed to an exaggerated degree, and the clothes were short to the knees and the sleeves and boots were handed over.

Features of clothing:

One is "don't follow the crowd", that is to say, no matter what clothes people wear in society, Taoist priests keep their clothes unchanged, which is actually a manifestation of Taoist maverick character;

The second is "no different clothes", wearing clothes made by the Yellow Emperor, that is, Han costumes, and not wearing other costumes. Therefore, Taoist costumes have not changed much for thousands of years.