Hanboks are not all cross-necked Why did some ancient officials wear garments that were not cross-necked Did they also have T-shirts in ancient times? And still robe version of the T-shirt.

First of all, the first picture is the Tang Dynasty official clothes, it is important to note that this official clothing is called the round neck robe shirt, usually made of fine linen with dark flowers, collar, sleeves, lapel plus edge edge, in the hem of the shirt near the knee with a horizontal ridge, so it is also known as "襕襕窛窛shirt"。 Clothing and shirt are two concepts. In today's words, the official dress belongs to the category of today's trench coat, is a robe and not a garment. Officials were not allowed to wear this kind of robe at important official ceremonies, and had to wear the traditional lapel-collar gowns.

Tang official robes

Tang big-sleeved dress

Secondly, this kind of robes is also cross-collar, only the cross-collar does not do obvious cover lapel, also cross-collar right obeisance, but the cover line from the right clavicle to the armpits, the hitching loops are not obvious. Some scholars believe that the purpose of trying to hide the masking line is to emphasize the belt and the horizontal waistband, even though the Tang official clothes do not have a patch.

Once again, the term hanfu was first used in the Han Book, which first referred to the clothing rituals of the Han Dynasty. Today, we refer to Hanfu, is a general reference to the traditional national dress of the Han people. The former has a fixed form and strict legal requirements, while the latter is the Han people inherited more than 5,000 years of traditional national costumes, there are many characteristics of the times and the shape of the system, should not be measured by a generalized standard.