Chapter 10 Section 3 women's clothing

Women's dresses in the Han Dynasty were still dominated by dark clothes.It's just that the deep clothes at this time are different from those popular in the Warring States Period.Its notable feature is that the number of layers around the placket increases, and the hem of the clothes increases.Wearing this kind of clothes, the waist is mostly wrapped tightly, and a ribbon is used to tie the waist or hips.There is also a kind of clothing called "袿 [gui Gui] clothing", which is roughly similar in style to deep clothing.It got its name because at the bottom of the clothes, two decorations with a wide top and a narrow bottom are formed like knives due to the winding of the placket.In addition, women in the Han Dynasty also wore skirts.There is a sentence in the Han Yuefu poem "Moshang Mulberry": "There is a bun on the head, and moon beads in the ears. Xiangqi is the lower skirt, and Ziqi is the upper jacket." It is a beautiful mulberry-picking girl wearing a skirt. image portrayal.This kind of skirt is mostly made of four pieces of plain silk, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, in the shape of a ladder, without any decoration or fringe, so it is named "missing skirt".It also has silk strips sewn on both ends of the skirt waist for tying.This kind of skirt has long been the most important form of Chinese women's clothing.Although the number of people who wore it decreased for a time after the Eastern Han Dynasty, after it became popular again in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, it lasted for a long time and continued until the Qing Dynasty.Women in the Han Dynasty also wore trousers.But most of them have only two trouser legs, and the upper ends are tied with belts.Later, women in the palace wore belted trousers with crotch at the front and back, called "poor (meaning unreasonable) trousers", which spread to the people and were gradually imitated by people.