Did the ancients wear underpants?

Ancient people also wore underpants, the name of which was calf-nosed pants (kūn).

The calf's nose is the nose of a cow. If you don't count the nostrils, the shape of a cow's nose is a curved triangle. Similar to modern triangular underwear. Usually worn by farmers, servants, or soldiers for convenience in labor and movement.

The pants are worn inside, so generally the quality of the pants will be worse than the top. However, the rich and noble families wore pants made of silk fabric. They were recognized in society as extravagant clothing.

The Book of the Han Dynasty (汉书-叙传) refers to the children of noble relatives who wore "绮襦纨绔". The qi, a patterned silk fabric, and the dandy, a delicately woven raw silk, were both very expensive.

Afterwards, people used "dude" to refer to the sons of the rich and noble families who were not doing their jobs. Du Fu's "hakama not starve to death, the Confucian crown more misguided body", is the hakama and Confucian comparison, including the irony of the playboy who does not study not to delete.

So we can basically say that in ancient times only poor people wore underwear. Underpants were like a label for being poor, something you could do without.

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Because the pants were all worn inside, the quality of the material was poorer than that of the upper garment, and the rich and noble families also used silk fabrics to make it, and it was socially recognized as an extravagant dress

The Book of Han? The book refers to the children of noble relatives who wore "绮襦纨绔". The "绮襦纨绔" (绮襦) is a patterned silk fabric, and the "纨" (纨) is a delicately woven silk, both of which were very expensive. Later on, people used the term "dude" to refer to the sons of the rich and noble families who were not engaged in their own business. In a poem by Du Fu, "The hakama does not starve to death, but the Confucian is a misfit," he contrasted the hakama with the Confucian, implying that the hakama did not study and did not look to the good.

The Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties were a time when pants were in vogue, and because of the influence of exotic lifestyles, the common people of the period were fashionably dressed in pants. At that time, the pants system is relatively loose, especially the two pants, often made very fat, commonly known as "big mouth pants". The tops that went with the pants were more form-fitting and were called "pleats".

The pleats and pants worn together were called "hakama pleats. At that time, both men and women wore hakama pleats, for example, in the "Records of the Western River", which reads, "There were no silkworms in the Western River, so the women made hakama pleats out of foreign brocades of different colors." Since pants were too fat and loose to move around, they were tied tightly at the knees with ribbons to make them easier to wear, and the pants with these ribbons were called hakama. Nowadays, we can still see the shape of the hakama when we watch folk dances or shadow plays.

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