Evolution History Of Underwear Culture In Ancient China

From the Wei, Jin, southern and Northern Dynasties, with the cultural mode of Confucianism as the core, cracks appeared in ancient China.

In the Song Dynasty, the "Neo Confucianism" restriction did not overshadow the underwear culture, instead, it created the foundation for future "belly dresses" with the characteristics of "narrow, thin, long and strange". The underwear of the "waist" of the underwear culture of the Ming Dynasty reflected the prevailing consumption concept of "guiding the luxurious sex" in the social fashion. In the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, both the inheritance of the traditional underwear and the acceptance of the western inner garment culture promoted the character of the Chinese underwear. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the underwear culture was revealed by the shape and color of underwear.

The "heart clothes" of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the "Bao socks" of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the "bosom" of the Song Dynasty, the "belly pocket" of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the "vest vest" of the Republic of China, all of the ancient Chinese underwear have the characteristics of the times.

From the rectangle, diamond, triangle, semicircle to the flower bud shape, like the shape of the shape and tiger shape, it presents many different styles.

Throughout the development of lingerie culture, ancient Chinese underwear has expressed its hope for beauty, emotion and physical performance in a hazy, invisible and shy way.

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Mid Qing Dynasty

Apricot yellow color embroidered lotus seed rhomboid silk ground (pattern part)

Republican China

Multicolored halo embroidered more than 3 Round Pendant Beige silk

Use color gradient to create a lasting appeal and rich beauty.

Republican China

Multicolored embroidered Unicorn delivery

Yuan Baodou, the style feature is a piece of decorative piece like a piece of Yuanbao, which is a kind of underwear commonly used by children in summer.

The "Yuan Bao" is simply called three yuan, which refers to the yuan, the yuan and the champion.

Children's underwear on this form of costumes, refers to adult career brilliant and financial resources widely.

Multicolored embroidered butterfly bucket diamond shaped silk cloth paddy field clothes

Generally, the pattern decoration of the paddy field clothes is mainly based on small areas, emphasizing the effect of different color block fabrics.

This type of "paddy field clothes" is rarely seen in the embroidered patterns on the ground. The symmetrical arrangement of red and yellow as the bottom is rich in the unity of different patterns of asymmetric embroidery.

Late Qing Dynasty

Multicolored embroidered butterfly, love flower, plain cloth, ground casing

The butterflies and flowers will be arranged in full bloom and full of vitality. With the "long life lock" to adorn the neck, it will be harmonious and wonderful. People will use this pattern to bless children to live forever.

In the early Republic of China, the family grew up healthily for the sake of praying for children's good luck and good luck. It was a long life lock for children to drive away evil and bring happiness. This is a child care custom of the Han nationality. It was widely circulated after the early Republic of China.

At that time, people believed that human beings had a soul, and that the soul was not long enough to frighten children from their birth to 12 years old. Therefore, special protection was needed.

Late Qing Dynasty

Multicolored embroidered rug shaped hanging beads for silk covering

"Ruyi" comes from the Sanskrit Arana. It was written by Buddhist monks when they were introduced to China from India, and was often used as a memorandum before the sermon preaching. After that, it was often used as a Bodhisattva's Buddhist device, and the folk as a tool for scratching back and also as a symbol of body protection.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the flourishing of Taoism, Ganoderma lucidum and Xiangyun were taken as the form and symbol of the good wishes.

The whole belly is set with the "Ruyi" collection, and it has the saying "happy life".

It is a wonderful thing to form a large Ruyi pattern with the combination of several Ruyi forms.

At every desired junctions, a pparent round bead is used to form the shape.

Multicolored embroidered picture, good bird's branch composite red silk corset.

Zhong Ding Wen "good bird branches" four characters in the chest embroidered, "good birds" should climb (hope) "high branch", express for the hostess to find a good end result.

The front garment is round and round, and the back piece is square.

Late Qing Dynasty

Multicolored embroidery embroidered on the diamond rhombus of the world (character pattern part)

Blessing refers to good fortune, fortune and good fortune. It is the most commonly used word for auspicious words in thousands of years.