China traditional dress 5 claw dragon pattern

The costumes of the emperors in Qing Dynasty included imperial clothes, auspicious clothes, regular clothes and travelling clothes. The emperor's robes are mainly bright yellow, such as bright yellow, golden yellow or apricot yellow, with nine dragons embroidered on them, but there are only eight dragons in the real thing. In fact, they are all embroidered in skirts, which are generally not easy to see. In this way, each dragon robe is actually Kowloon. From the front or back, you can see five dragons, which coincides with the figures in the Ninth Five-Year Plan. The hem of the dragon robe is embroidered with many curved lines called water feet. Below the foot of the water, the waves are rolling, and above the waves, it is a treasure house of rocks, commonly known as "Haihe River", which not only means endless auspiciousness, but also means "unifying mountains and rivers" and "eternal peace"

prince

In the Qing dynasty, the royal robes of princes were generally dragon robes, while Baylor was embroidered robes. There is no clear answer about the difference between python and dragon. Generally, according to "Discrimination of Wildfire", "A python is dressed like a dragon's robe, which is similar to the imperial (dragon's) robe of the Supreme (that is, the emperor), but with one claw reduced" and "Where a dragon satin group is set up with five claws, officials and people are not allowed to wear it ... If a dragon satin with five claws is granted, one claw should be removed to wear it, and it is concluded that five claws are dragons and four claws are pythons. The color of a prince's royal robe can only be khaki or dark yellow, not bright yellow. The dragon must be panlong or descending dragon, not ascending dragon or positive dragon. The hem of the prince's royal robe is also embroidered with "Sea and River".

The pattern of the prince's auxiliary clothing: five-claw dragon before and after, five-claw dragon with two shoulders.

The pattern of Wang Fufu's clothing: a dragon with two shoulders and five claws in front and back.

Baylor's pattern of mending clothes: there are four claws of python in front and back.

Beizi has a patchwork pattern: four-claw pythons before and after.

Zhen Guogong and Fu Guogong's pattern of supplementary clothing: one side of the front and the other side of the four-claw python.

Duke, Marquis and Earl patterns: Nine pythons are embroidered on the front and back.