Ancient men why also with bibs?

Ancient men are wearing bibs bibs (dù dōu ), the ancient name of the bibs, is the traditional Chinese dress in the protection of the chest and abdomen of the intimate underwear, the top with a cloth belt tied to the neck, the following two sides of the belt tied to the waist. On the name of the bib, there are different generations. In addition to the bibs, there is a chest, wipe the belly, wipe the abdomen, wrap the belly, bibs, bibs, hobos, women's undergarments and other aliases. The art of the bib is mainly embroidery, but also patch pattern. Because it includes sewing, embroidery, cutting, modeling and color composition, so the bib belongs to the folk women's art in the comprehensive performance part of the bib, a long story, its origin can be traced back to the time when the chaos of heaven and earth first opened. Nuwa and Fuxi, brother and sister, intermarried after the flood in the sky, gave birth to children, and created the first human clothing - the bibs, which were used to cover the human body's shame. According to Chinese historical records, its origin can be traced back to 818 BC, "Zuozhuan" "Chen Linggong and Kong Ning Yi line father through the summer of 姖, are keen on their women's undergarments, in order to play in the court." The women's undergarments mentioned here are close-fitting garments, which may also be the bibs later. The pre-Qin said "膺", Han said "hold the abdomen", popular in the Wei, Jin, North and South Dynasties. There is also a saying that the bib is Yang Guifei to cover her and An Lushan fornication traces of invention. Folk also said that the bibs in the Han Dynasty, celibate women for fear of being bullied by rude men, so the cloth wrapped chest, and then tied to the back with a belt, called "binding chest". Han Liu Xi "interpretation of the name. Interpretation of clothing" said: hold the abdomen, the upper and lower band, hold wrapped its abdomen, no crotch on the also. Xu ke "qing taolu class notes" clothing class said: belly band, summer yarn winter crepe, stored in musk chips, edge to thick waterproof silk. Qing Cao Tingdong "Health Essay" Volume I: abdomen for the total of the five organs, so the abdomen is like warm, the old man under the element of weakness, it is more appropriate to add the intention of warming. Office of the pocket belly, will herb whacking soft paved uniform, masked with silk, fine needle line, do not make scattered into blocks, night necessary, living often also can not be light off. There are also ginger, cinnamon and musk medicines installed main, can cure the abdomen for cold pain. After the Ming Dynasty, women have been commonly used the habit of using the bibs, then called "bibs", commonly known as the chest. Is with two pieces of cross material, diagonal cut, on the tip of the next flat and become. The Qing Dynasty, there are two styles of breast, one is a short fit, bound between the chest and abdomen, commonly known as the "bib". Another is bundled between the waist and abdomen, known as "wipe chest belly". The Qing Barnyard Banknotes" recorded: "wipe chest, chest between the small clothes, a wipe abdomen, also known as wipe belly; to square feet of cloth for the tightly bound chest to prevent wind and cold invasion, commonly known as the belly. Men and women have it. Qing Dynasty underwear called "bibs", generally made of diamond-shaped. On the band, wear sets in the neck, waist and two other bands behind the bundle, below the inverted triangle, covering the navel, to reach the abdomen. Material to cotton, silk mostly. Bundle with the band is not limited to rope, rich and noble family with gold chain, medium family with silver chain, copper chain, small family with red silk. "Bib" on all kinds of fine embroidery. Red for the "bib" common color. It can be seen that the bibs to the Qing Dynasty, not only is the wind invasion of the body, more both medicinal and balm function. Dream of Red Mansions" thirty-sixth wrote Baochai to Baoyu room, saw the attacker in the needlework, it is white damask red bibs, above the tie with mandarin ducks playing lotus pattern, red lotus green leaves, five-color mandarin ducks.