Costume Culture: Exaggerated Costumes

tradition

One of the characteristics of Chinese traditional opera costumes is nested style.

From the emperor to the servant, the prisoner, the beggar, and all kinds of people, there are special clothing sets that match the roles, status, occupations, occasions and even personalities.

The same is the prime minister, the court should wear "mink", home wearing "phase towel".

Cao Cao in the battle Wan City is not long wearing the emperor. He wears a "mink". Cao Cao in "Xiaoyao Jin" has "made the princes" for nearly twenty years. Wearing the "mink" that represents the status of the prime minister is not enough. He wants Dai Jinlv's POM balls and the golden winged wings on both sides.

This costume series is mainly formed by the two generation of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and is the accumulation of many artists' creation. This is closely related to the development of Peking Opera in the past two hundred years.

The "Python" in traditional opera costumes is the official uniform of the emperors and generals. The circular neckband is embroidered with embroidered Yunlong patterns and the symbolic decoration on the hem and cuffs embroidered by the sea. The emperor wears the Yellow Dragon Python and will wear other colors of the dragon.

There are also "female pythons", which are the royal clothes of the concubines, the ladies of the Imperial Palace, the women's generals, the embroidered Danfeng Chaoyang or the Phoenix peony.

In the history, the two dynasties emperors of the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty were not as strict as the song and Ming Dynasties in monopolization of the dragon.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the image of "real dragon" was set as two corners of five claws. Other dragon and dragon like "dragon" and "Ru Yunlong" can only be four claws or three claws.

The Ming Dynasty is different. In order to avoid confusion, apart from the four claws and three claws called pythons, they are different from those of the five claws, and they are strictly forbidden to wear Python clothing.

In the sixteen years of Jiajing, Zhang Zun, a soldier of the Ministry of military affairs, wore something resemble a python pattern. Ming Shi Zun was furious. He asked the Minister of the summer palace to say: "the two books of the Shang Dynasty, and why he took the python"?

The emperor Jiajing said, "why did the flying fish embroider two horns?"

Under such circumstances, how can a play make the emperor and the imperial concubine wear "Python" together? Therefore, the python in the costume series is impossible to appear in the Ming Dynasty.

In the Qing Dynasty, the emperor, the empress, the prince and the prince used the Dragon Robe, and the prince, Beller, Bei, Zhen Guo Gong, Fu Guo Gong and Wen Wu three products all used Python robes.

According to the series of drama costumes, the Royal costume of kings and emperors is called "Python", which fully accords with the concept of dress in the Qing Dynasty.

As for the emperor's royal clothing in the play, it is also called the python, but only because the emperor is a "actor".

In order to give the audience more aesthetic enjoyment, opera costumes are decorated with beautiful ornaments, such as pearls, POMS, silk tapetries, pheasants, and so on.

Like Lv Bu and Zhou Yu putting two long pheasants on the purple gold crown on stage, it adds a lot of opportunities for actors to play their roles.

This is nothing in life.

"The history of the Ming Dynasty," three, said Hongwu twenty-six years, the provisions of the grand sacrifices Qingcheng, Zheng Dan, winter solstice, holy festival...

There are public, Hou, and count's attendance ceremonies.

But it was gong, Hou and Bo, and only used in ceremonies. Neither the generals nor the governor had such a costume in the army.

In the days of Lv Bu and Zhou Yu, there was a kind of martial art, "plus double tail, vertical left and right sides".

But the "plumes" on the stage are at least four or five times longer than the actual ones.

This is the exaggeration of art.

Some types of traditional opera costumes also come from life, such as the "casual clothes" worn by the imperial concubines.

"Shuo Wen" receives the word "Shi", and Duan Yucai notes that "today's men's women's shawls are their intentions."

In Tang Zhangxuan's "Madam Guo's spring outing", the wife of the lady of the kingdom of Lun is formally put on his shoulders and hung from his chest to the waist. But the lady in the tune of Qin Qin is not on his shoulders, but rather carefree and unloaded to the waist and back.

In Bai Juyi's "neon dress and feather dance song", there is "Rainbow Dress", and "Xia" is used to describe the colorful and beautiful people.

Since then, "Xia" has become a proper name and has become the symbol of the rank of a lady.