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Sleeves (cuffs) of ancient clothes

Hanbok gives people the impression that it is not only wide and flowing, some details are often overlooked, but precisely these inconspicuous details that constitute the flavor of Hanbok, but also these details, explains the cultural significance of Hanbok on behalf of, such as the collar and sleeves, and tailoring, I feel that these a little bit is easily can not be touched, they are a symbol of the embodiment of the culture, and often to be more than the appearance of the only Looks like a wide and flowing more illustrative of the problem, such as the cross collar, not simply so designed, two straight lines like the intersection of the clothing in the middle of the line or so on behalf of the traditional culture of symmetry, revealing a unique in the right rhyme, on behalf of the people to be impartial, if the Han Chinese performance of the unity of man in the words of the cross-collar on behalf of the heavenly and round earth in the ground, the ground both humane, both the square and the positive; and the sleeves, in fact, are round shirts, on behalf of the heavenly and round earth in the The sleeves, in fact, are round shirts, which represent the roundness of the sky and the roundness of the earth, and the earth is both humane and square. In fact, the sky is round according to the current scientific vision is of course not right, but, the ancient science of the sky is not just on the concept of geography, it is a kind of Tao, a law, a culture, such as the ground both people, pay attention to the square, positive. The center, and, the earth line has a law; and the circle of the sky, represented by the round and God, is about a kind of heavenly way, a kind of cycle, a kind of harmony, a kind of law. Therefore this is the real value expressed by the roundness of heaven, and it is through these that the purpose of reflecting the unity of heaven and man in Chinese clothing is achieved. Therefore, the collar is cross-collar (from the beginning of the square rectangular collar evolved) right obeisance; sleeve is a round shaped sleeve to close the expectoration, are like a kind of totem like the embodiment of the culture. And right obeisance, cross-collar left and right symmetrical "construction", the right covered in the left above, in fact, also reflects the traditional sense of the right obeisance for the yang outside, the right for the positive, both the right way, the left obeisance for the yin within the yin and yang concepts, in addition, cross-collar in the construction of the role of the heart is to protect the qi, if obeisance in the left side, I believe that it will also be very inconvenient. And close dispel (that is, close the lower end of the wide sleeve), may also have the Tianben rules and regulations, there is the concept of the beginning and the end, but in any case, if not close dispel, I believe that the ancients will not take the sleeve directly as a gift bag, will not be directly in the sleeve to hide things (like the open mouth of the wide sleeve, will not be able to do this). In fact, has always been, the standard style of the Chinese dress sleeve is a round sleeve to collect expectoration, pre-Qin to the Han Dynasty reflects the physical object without exception are so, and the Han Dynasty period of all the "wide sleeve" is just "Hu" is very wide only, wide of the big, the real wide sleeve, and is not! Now this kind of open mouth, like a big triangle like the sleeve, in fact, has always been, in addition to the Tang later in the regular clothing in the open small sleeves, the mainstream of the Han clothing sleeve is still round sleeve to close the expectoration, (Tang, Song, Ming physical evidence, especially Ming, basically restored the Han Dynasty's round sleeve to close the expectoration) and the sleeve system, is precisely the most neglected in today's Han Chinese clothing