What was the wedding costume like in Chinese history

 

What was the wedding costume like in Chinese history

The ancients attached great importance to the wedding and marriage, marriage means the continuation of the family name, reproduction, so the gentleman attaches great importance to it. In ancient times, many red tape is to highlight the solemnity of the wedding, to emphasize the importance of the wedding.

It is recorded in the 《Book of Rites · Hun Yi》that the ancients married and passed on their family lines, so everyone attached great importance to it. So use six manners, that is: “Na cai, Wen ming, Naji, Na zheng, Qing qi, Ying qin”.

Chinese wedding etiquette

 

Zhou dynasty


 The Zhou dynasty was famous for its emphasis on etiquette, and the marriage system also emphasized the ritual system. Wedding, the Zhou dynasty is "faint ceremony", the sky dusk just married ceremony, solemn tone. "Yili · Shi Hun Li" is the earliest record of wedding in China, it is not only applicable to the class of scholars.

According to the description in “Yili”, the wedding dress of the Zhou Dynasty was black and red, with black as the main color and red as the auxiliary. In the perception of zhou people, the sky was black and the earth was red. The color of wedding dress just reflected the worship of zhou ancestors to heaven and earth. The men wears a Jue bian suit “爵弁服” and Xuanduan “玄端”, with a Jue bian on his head. The bride is pure black clothes, black silk dress, light red dress edge.

There is little difference between men and women in the shape and system of wedding clothes, both of which are Shang yi xia shang “上衣下裳”. Some scholars believe that this shape is to show women's exclusivity. The kneecap of the wedding dress (covering the thigh to the knee) and shoes follow the black robe, the main color is black.

Han Dynasty

We can learn more the shape of women's wedding dress in the Han Dynasty from ancient poems. Some of you may be familiar with “The peacock flying Southeast” “孔雀东南飞”. It is the longest epic poem in ancient times. The Peacock flying Southeast is based on a tragic love story during the reign of Emperor Xian of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In addition, among the unearthed cultural relics of the Han Tomb in Mawangdui, there are many clothes of the Han Dynasty that can be used for demonstration. Silk embroidered gowns and silk skirts, etc., let us understand the clothing style at that time with reliable information. Han dynasty women's wedding clothes varied in style, ranging from one-piece robe to Ruqun, which was typically made of Shang yi xia shang. Shang ru xia qun shape, the Ru short, the Qun long can hang to the ground.

According to the height of the waist of the skirt, it can be divided into Qi yao ru qun “齐腰襦裙”,Qi xiong Ru qun“齐胸襦裙”. According to the style of the collar, it can be divided into Quling ruqun “曲裾襦裙” and Zhiling ruqun “直领襦裙”.

 The popularity of Ruqun and Shenyi gave ancient women a new twist on their wedding clothes. In addition, the embroidery of wedding clothes in the Han Dynasty became more exquisite and the colors became richer. Not only dark color, but red, yellow. Of course, because the Han dynasty inherited the Qin system, and the Qin dynasty followed the Zhou system, the wedding dress is still mainly black.

Wei Jin Northern and Southern Dynasties

During the WeiJin Southern and Northern Dynasties, a large number of paintings have been left, through which we can see the romance of the Wei and Jin dynasties. "luo Shen fu graph" showed at that time woman dress, luo Shen is dressed to hand Jiao ling you ren“交领右衽” jacket, be like to fly on the sky, wide sleeve, appear fairy full.Southern and Northern Dynasties costumes

Costume system of Wei jin southern and Northern Dynasties basically still follow the old system of Qin and Han dynasty, based on Ru and Shan, popular Jin upper Ru. It is hard to imagine that the Wei and Jin dynasties especially advocated white, and women's common dress and even wedding dress were all white for a long time.

White wedding dress is a kind of wedding costume in The Wei and Jin dynasties, the wedding dress is less thick, more light and elegant.
The white wedding has a taste of modern Western wedding, but culturally speaking, it is completely different.
Maybe is because wei jin metaphysics prevailing, this period of people will return to nature, began to take a small fresh route, is very light elegance.


Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty

The Tang Dynasty was the most glorious feudal dynasty in China. It was open and inclusive, and the atmosphere of its heyday was very desirable. Tang Dynasty wedding costume, naturally in line with the Tang bearing, elegant.

The wedding dress of this period advocated bright red and cyan, probably with such bold and bright colors, just worthy of the prosperous and gorgeous atmosphere of the tang Dynasty.

According to the "new Tang book" record, Official posts in the nine above the woman married dress for big sleeve dress, green clothing, white the shirt inside, covered knee, belt, leather belt, shoes with clothing color, flower hairpin, Fuji, with gold and silver mixed treasure ornaments. Concubine married women are flowers chai, decorated with gold and silver glaze.

It can be seen that the Tang people attached great importance to the effect of ornaments such as Chai Dian “钗钿” on wedding dress, and even the wedding dress with Chai and Dian became very popular at that time. The wedding dress of the Song Dynasty was established on the basis of the Tang Dynasty, and evolved slightly from tedious and gorgeous to simple and restrained.

The chai Dian wedding gown, referred to as "big sleeve shirt" or "big shirt" for short in song dynasty, is more introverted than the big sleeve shirt in Tang Dynasty. It is not so wide and can be shaped. It is also blue.

Classic red appeared in the Ming Dynasty in the feudal society of strict ethics, hierarchy and order, clothing and color selection have strict regulations and restrictions, not to exceed the system.

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 Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty was probably the friendliest era for civil weddings

Classic red appeared in the Ming Dynasty in the feudal society of strict ethics, hierarchy and order, clothing and color selection have strict regulations and restrictions, not to exceed the system.

Ordinary men's marriage is also known as Xiaodengke“小登科”. With zhu Yuanzhang's acquiescence, ordinary men were allowed to wear official clothes of more than nine official posts, and brides could also wear dress of more than nine official posts. Big red sleeve shirt for the Duijin, round collar style, inside wear red long dress, much pleated, wide hem.

Red wedding dress,Shang yi xia shang“上衣下裳”, this classic traditional wedding dress shape system will be used.

 

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