What was the Qing Dynasty Emperor's costume like?

Emperor's court dress in the Qing Dynasty

Emperor's dress in the Qing Dynasty includes court dress, auspicious dress, regular dress and traveling dress. The emperor's court dress and the crown worn, divided into winter and summer two styles. The difference between winter and summer court dress is mainly in the edge of the clothes, spring and summer with satin, autumn and winter with precious fur for the edge of the decoration. The color of the court dress is mainly yellow, with bright yellow for the noble, only in the sacrifice of the sky with blue, towards the sun with red, the sunset with white. The pattern of the court dress is mainly for the dragon pattern and twelve chapters pattern. Generally in front of the front, back and both arms embroidered dragon each one; waist embroidered five rows of dragons embroidered creases (tucks) before and after the embroidered group of nine dragons; clothing embroidered two dragons, four rows of dragons; shawl embroidered two rows of dragons; sleeve embroidered a dragon each one. Twelve chapters of patterns for the sun, moon, stars, mountains, dragons, Chinese insects, embroidery, embroidery eight chapters in the clothes; the remaining four algae, fire, Zong Yi, rice flour in the garment, and with five-color cloud pattern.

Qing dynasty emperor dragon robe

The emperor's dragon robe belongs to the category of auspicious clothing, than the court dress, gun suit and other dresses slightly inferior, usually more often wear. When wearing a dragon robe, must wear a crown, bundle of uniforms and hanging beads. Dragon robe in bright yellow is also available in gold and apricot yellow and other colors. In ancient times, said the emperor's position, for the nine or five. Nine, five two numbers, usually symbolizes the noble, in the imperial building, living utensils and other aspects are reflected. The emperor of the Qing dynasty's dragon robe, according to documentary records, also embroidered with nine dragons. From the physical point of view, before and after only eight dragons, and written records do not match, missing a dragon. Some people think there is a dragon is the emperor himself. In fact, this dragon exists objectively, just be embroidered in the lapel inside, generally not easy to see. In this way, each piece of the dragon robe is actually nine dragons, and from the front or back when you look at it alone, what you see are five dragons, and the number of nine or five coincides. In addition, the hem of the dragon robe, diagonally arranged with many curved lines, called the water foot. Above the foot of the water, there are many waves rolling water waves, water waves, and then stand a mountain stone treasure, commonly known as "seawater Jiangya", which in addition to the auspicious meaning of continuous, there is "a unity of the mountains and rivers" and "worlds of peace "The symbolism.