The Basic Forms of Traditional Chinese Clothing

There are two basic forms of traditional clothing, namely, the upper garment and lower garment system and the garment-connected system. It is said that the system of clothes on top and clothes underneath started in the legendary era of the Yellow Emperor, and it is written in the book "Yi - Xiang Rhetoric" that "the Yellow Emperor, Yao, and Shun put down their clothes and ruled the whole world, which was taken from Qiankun." This legend can be unearthed in Gansu in the pottery culture of colored pottery culture, be confirmed. This can be said to be the basic form of the earliest clothing system in China. Clothes under the clothing system, according to "interpretation of the name - interpretation of the clothes": "Where the clothes on the said clothes. Clothes, according to also, people rely on to avoid cold and heat. Under the said clothes. Clothing, barrier, so since the barrier also." The shape of the upper garment is mostly cross-necked right overlooking, the lower garment similar to the shape of the apron, the waist tie, the lower tie open. This kind of clothing system had a great influence on the later generations.

The system of clothing attached to a garment, anciently known as Shamyi, was first created in the Zhou Dynasty. According to a note in the Book of Rites - Deep Clothing, "The name is Deep Clothing, which means that the garment is attached to the clothes and purely used for collection." Shamyi is similar in structure to contemporary dresses, with the top and bottom of the garment sewn together at the waist, and the collar, sleeves, and train made of other fabrics or embroidered edges. This form of deep clothes, affecting the later generations of clothing, the Han Dynasty women with it as a dress, ancient robes are also used in this form of clothes belonging to the form.