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About the inheritance and innovation of clothing, you do not know how many of those insiders?

Regardless of ancient and modern times, things closely related to human society are always inseparable from the necessities of life. The four are closely linked and equal in status, the most notable of which is clothing, because in ancient society, most people did not have special transportation, basically on foot out of the house. Due to the backwardness of production and labor technology in ancient times and the backwardness of the small peasant economy, the people did not have the funds for building houses. What is wrong with a thatched roof as long as it can shelter from wind and rain? Our great poet Du Fu wrote a song, "The thatched roof is broken by the autumn wind"! Sometimes I even think that people who live in thatched roof houses are more elegant, and have a noble quality that does not mix with the world.

When it comes to food, we are often confused by movies and TV shows. Unlike today's market shopping, we can buy anything we need. When we get tired of shopping at the supermarket, we look for a restaurant to eat. However, in ancient times, people's pocketbooks were squeezed by many taxes from the government, and in order to earn some money for basic household use, for example, you had to call a doctor when they got seriously ill. You had to buy rice at least once a month, so you had to sell your produce on top of the market. In ancient times, people were very simple. Sometimes people who came to buy things couldn't afford to buy them. They could also exchange other things of value, which was often called barter. People were concerned with whether they needed them or not, but today, whether they need them or not, there is no point in using yuan, we simply can't buy the appropriate things.

In ancient times, many taverns and pubs were inaccessible to ordinary people. Objective entertainment was either rich or expensive. Separate small peasant families were influenced by the characteristics of their particular class and their own occupation. Even when they were temporarily wealthy, they were momentarily reluctant to enjoy themselves and waste a whole year's hard-earned money. But there were always traitors, who were often called rebellious sons. Their behavior really corrupts the whole family, for their actions run counter to traditional ethics and morals, and because they run counter to the general trend, they become targets. Food, housing, and transportation have changed far less than clothing over the long period of ancient society, and among particular classes of ancient society.

Many people will say that the commoner class must be coarse women's shirts, which are also monotonous. But in every dynasty, although the clothes of the common people were dark and coarse compared with those of the nobility, it is unlikely that the Song people wore the clothes of the Chu people. Though the ancient times were divided into many small states, they were of the same nationality as the states we have differently mentioned to-day. Sometimes, if they were mixed together, how to recognize them? Sometimes clothes play a key role, like spies. What is the difference between surrender and death if you are wearing the clothes of another country?

In primitive societies, men and women began to avoid suspicion because they had just left the social life of animals. To avoid embarrassment when they met, they covered themselves with the most primitive things, such as broad leaves, and wove them together to form the most primitive clothing. By the Neolithic period, people were living in houses and production levels began to increase. According to archaeological discoveries, the earliest ancient needles appeared during this period, indicating that ancient people had begun to learn to sew simple clothes and gained experience from nature. In the confrontation between human beings and wild animals, human beings defeated them with their simple tools.

They usually stored the meat for consumption, stripped the bones and used them for their next hunt. What was eventually left was their pelts. The ancients simply sewed the pelts together and made them into the most formal of clothing. Depending on the season, they wore animal skins of different lengths and thicknesses. Animal skins have been used by later generations. One type is nobly processed and carved over and over again for power comparisons or to show status. For example, a good sable. The common people, especially those living near the forest, hunted for a living, so they took local materials and wore animal skins, but they were rough.

Later, the ancients found a unique substance in trees, fibers extracted from among grass and hemp. People used specific methods to join these threads together and then made cloth garments. Cloth clothes are also the most widely used clothing in later times. Due to the fact that their raw materials are very cheap and the production process is not very complicated, during the pre-Qin and the two Han Dynasties, the production process of cloth clothes was very developed, with more and more colors, styles and colors. Usually, when a man went to a woman's home to propose, cloth had to be included in the bride price. This was the most extravagant pursuit of wealth for most ordinary families. In the past, the fabric in the man's house was the biggest guarantee for the woman's family, and according to the fabric theory in the past, the bride price was usually the fur of an animal, or the meat of an animal. Later, due to the improvement of people's cultural level, the content of the bride price has changed a lot.

When Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms and established the Qin Dynasty, he set up a strict hierarchy. Commoners were to wear commoners' clothes and nobles were to wear nobles' clothes. In the past, when commoners were wealthy, they were also allowed to wear clothes that did not fit their status. Since then, there has been a very clear distinction between inferiority and superiority, superiority and inferiority in clothing. Commoners were not allowed to wear yellow clothes, nor were they allowed to embroider patterns and colors on top of their clothes, and they were most likely to wear grey and black clothes in order to show their humble status. Regarding the ancient people's appellations of themselves, there are the appellations of cloth and straw man, which are closely related to the clothes they wear. Because China is a traditional agricultural country, the main labor force of the country is civilians, in order to be able to carry out agricultural production well, the people no longer wear wide-sleeved coats according to the characteristics of agriculture, because it is extremely inconvenient to engage in agricultural production, so shorts and short clothes appeared at this time, and we still have them now, the old tradition continues. What do you all think after reading this? Welcome to leave a message.