What is the embroidery of ancient official uniforms and civil servants?

Civil servants are birds, military officers are beasts, and eunuchs are four kinds of civil servants-cranes.

The white crane is a fairy bird in Taoist thought. Antarctic immortals often travel by crane. For literati, the crane is not only a symbol of longevity of lotus, but also represents nobility and elegance. The crane in Buzi is represented by the red-crowned crane, so the top of the head is red, which is easy to distinguish.

Second-class civil servant-Luo Jin

Golden pheasant is a kind of pheasant, whose scientific name is golden pheasant, commonly known as golden rooster. All five are well prepared, gorgeous and high-spirited. The Chinese worm in The Twelve Clothes of the Emperor is the golden pheasant. Geng Jie is good at fighting, although he can't fly over the domain. It is characterized by decorative feathers on its head and two long feathers on its tail, which represent the long tail of pheasant.

Sanpin Civil Servant-Peacock

Peacock's tail feather is the easiest to identify, and it is also a brightly colored bird. It is said that peacocks have nine virtues and were often used for painting or embroidery patterns in the Qing Dynasty.

Sipin civil servant-lark

The lark is a wild duck, so the bird's head is bald and featherless, and its tail is a duck's tail that is upturned.

Five civil servants-silver pheasant

Silver pheasant is also a kind of pheasant, mainly with white feathers. But in the Qing Dynasty, because of the different methods of decoration and embroidery, such as gold embroidery and silver embroidery. The tail of silver pheasant must be all white, but it is characterized by thick tail feathers, usually represented by five long tail feathers.

Liu Pin Civil Servant-Egret

Luluan is mostly white with feathers on its head and a short tail.

Qipin Civil-Sorry

? As a waterfowl, it is bigger and more purple than Yuanyang, so it is also commonly known as Purple Yuanyang. The shaping in tonic is also completely imitated, unlike waterfowl. The feathers on the back are like scales, and some extend all the way to the head. They are colorful and easy to distinguish.

Eight civil servants-quail

Quail is homophonic with "An", meaning peace. Quail looks like a chicken. In the tonic, its body is rounder than other birds and it has no tail. Usually embroidered in brown or loess color.

Do civil servants-practice sparrows

To practice birds is to take them. A symbol of nobility and longevity. It is characterized by two extremely long tail feathers with a blue or red dot at the end, which is also easy to distinguish.

First-rate military attache-Kirin

Kirin is an imaginary monument, and it is said that it will only appear in times of peace and prosperity. People think that Kirin has great wisdom, and its shape seems to be a combined ornament. Embroidered unicorn in Qing Dynasty, its body, legs and hooves are like deer, but it is covered with scales, its head is like a dragon's head, its tail is like a lion's tail, and sometimes its horns are paired.

Second-class military attache-lion

Lions are not native to China. They were introduced from the Western Regions, but they had a far-reaching influence on China. For example, a pair of stone lions are often placed in front of temples or palaces, symbolizing courage and strength. In addition, the ancient "lion" was the same as the official system of the Zhou Dynasty. Therefore, the lion also has the meaning of official prosperity. The lion in the tonic is three-dimensional, so it is easy to understand.

Trivial military attache-Bao

Leopards are agile and their shapes tend to be realistic in the tonic. When a leopard has spots, it is easy to do something different.

Four officers-Tiger

The tiger is brave, and its shape is similar to that of a leopard in a tonic, but its waves are spotted. Some have tiger stripes, and some don't.

Wu Pin Wu Guanxiong

The bear in the tonic is very different from the real bear in appearance, but it is similar to the lion in the second-level official. The difference between them is that the mane on the bear's back is straight; The lion's mane is curly. In addition, the bear's nose and face are exaggerated and a little cartoon.

Six officers-Biao

It is smaller than a tiger, but it looks like a kitten, not as powerful as a tiger. Usually the chest is white and the body is mainly brown.

Seven military attache-rhinoceros

Eight officers-rhinoceros

Seven or eight products of military attache's tonic are rare, so it is difficult to analyze and identify them. According to the description of rhinoceros in Ming dynasty, it is not the real animal we refer to now, but similar to the four elephants. Buffalo has a horn on its body, deer head, back and top, and a slender tail.

Do Military Officers-Haima

Like rhinoceros, it is not a real animal [hippocampus], but a horse in the wild sea, but this tonic is also very rare and can only be explained from the literature of Ming and Qing Dynasties.

A dragon with claws is called a python, and the emperor is a golden dragon with five claws.