There are many "patches" on the official uniforms of the Ming Dynasty. What's going on up there?

According to Ming Hui Dian, the twenty-four years of Hongwu (139 1), the complement patterns are: Gong, Hou, Xu and Bo: Kirin and Bai Ze; Civil servants embroider birds to show civilization: one crane, two golden pheasants, three peacocks, four geese, five silver pheasants, six egrets and seven birds? Eight orioles, nine quails.

Military attache embroiders animals, demonstrating fiercely: one product, two products of lion, three products, four products of tiger and leopard, five products of bear, six products of tiger, seven products of tiger, eight products of rhinoceros and nine products of seahorse; Miscellaneous duties: practicing magpies; Feng Xianguan: I'm embarrassed. In addition, there are other patterns with the theme of pythons and bullfights, which should belong to the category of "giving clothes" in the Ming Dynasty.

Extended data:

After Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and established the Ming Empire, he first banned Khufu, and then issued a decree in the name of Ming Taizu: Dressed like the Tang Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the imperial crown clothes, the civil and military official clothes, and the internal obedience, including sacrificial clothes, court clothes, public clothes and regular clothes, were really complicated in style, grade and dress etiquette.

Generally speaking, men's clothes are mainly robes and shirts with various shapes, while Confucian scholars and scribes take girdling and straight pleating as their uniforms. Women's wear mainly includes robes, jackets, shapi, Xunzi, Gaby, skirts and so on.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Official Clothing System in Ming Dynasty