Chapter 109 Official costumes and sedan chair decorations

Officials in the Qing Dynasty were divided into nine grades and nineteen grades. First Grade: Red Coral Drape (pure red), Nine Pythons and Five Claws Python Robe, Crane Makeup Clothes.Eight people are allowed to carry a big green sedan chair. The second grade: red blooming coral top wear (mixed red), nine pythons and five claws python robes, golden pheasant supplementary clothing.Eight people are allowed to carry a big green sedan chair. Third grade: sapphire and blue clear glass top (bright blue), nine python five-claw python gown, peacock make-up suit.Eight people are allowed to carry a big green sedan chair.

Fourth grade: Lapis lazuli and blue nirvana glass top (dark blue), eight pythons and five claws python robes, snow sparrow supplementary clothing.Four people are allowed to carry the blue woolen sedan chair. Fifth grade: crystal and white clear glass top wear (white), eight pythons and five claws python robe, white pheasant supplementary clothing.Four people are allowed to carry the blue woolen sedan chair. Sixth grade: Tridacna and white Nirvana glass topwear (white), eight pythons and five-clawed python gowns, egret supplementary clothing.Four people are allowed to carry the blue woolen sedan chair.

Seventh grade: Su Jin Dingdai (white), five pythons and four claws python gown, 鸂鵣 supplementary clothing. The eighth grade: golden crown with flowers (white), python gown with five pythons and four claws, and quail supplementary clothing. Ninth grade: engraved golden top wear (white), five pythons and four claws python robes, Lianque supplementary clothing. Not in the stream: engraved golden crown (white), python robe with five pythons and four claws, and oriole supplementary clothing. The top wear and python robes of supervisory censors, procurators and other supervisory and judicial officials are of normal grades, but the patterns of supplementary clothes are all embroidered with Xiechi to show judicial justice.

Decorations embroidered on military officers’ supplementary uniforms in the Qing Dynasty (boa robes are the same as civil officials’) First product: Kirin.Second Grade: Lion.Third Grade: Leopard.Fourth product: Tiger.Fifth product: Bear.Sixth grade: Biao (little tiger).Seventh and eighth grade: Rhinoceros.Nine products: hippocampus. In the Qing Dynasty, civil servants rode sedan chairs, while military officials rode horses.