Vicissitudes Of Children'S Clothing In Ancient China

Times are changing and children's clothing is changing.

The biggest difference between children's clothing and adults is that adult clothing is mainly the mind of the wearer.

It is undeniable that nowadays children's clothing is greatly influenced by fashion, and the sense of the times is very strong. When parents choose children's clothing, they think more about fashion and beauty. Compared with that, the cultural meaning of the ancients in children's clothing is more.

In the spring and Autumn period of China, "Book of Songs" is composed of "born men, carrying beds for bed, clothes for clothes, and carrying the Zhangs."

"It is a woman, a place to sleep, a garment to carry, and a tile to carry."

This is to say that he gave birth to a boy to dress him as a dress and let him play with the jade ritual in the bed.

When the girl was born, she was surrounded by a quilt, so that she could play the spinning wheel on the mat on the ground, that is, when she came to the world, she knew that women should be engaged in needlework such as textiles.

The rule of this baby clothing stems from the cultivation of gender roles in China.

The unique ingredients of some ancient children's clothing are still inherited by the farmers in remote mountainous areas. We will see that tiger heads and tiger shoes belong exclusively to children's clothing, and the butt curtain is only for children.

The practical function of tiger cap is, of course, to keep out the cold. But the appearance of a tiger is undoubtedly that the elders hope their children will be as strong as the tiger. In the traditional folk sense, the tiger is able to ward off evil spirits, so that children can wear tiger heads and caps, which can be both tiger head and tiger tiger, while protecting their children's safety and health.

Tiger shoes also take this meaning.

I have collected many tiger shoes in many parts of China, and found that they are basically the same.

If you take tiger shape, the toe is a tiger face. It has big eyes, big nose and mouth. Between the two eyebrows, there is always a "King" character. There is regular line beard on the mouth.

The upper of the upper is a raised tiger tail, which makes the concept of tiger deepen a lot and can also be used for lifting shoes.

Of course, the shape of children's caps is not limited to tigers, as well as rabbits, bears and so on. However, the image of cartoon is not very large in ancient times.

There are pigs and cats in children's shoes.

In Jixian County, Tianjin, it was fastidious to say, "a little boy wears a three year old pig and the king of Yan sees a cry. The girl wears a cat for three years, and the king of Yan sees howling."

All these show that the children's clothes made by the Chinese people are deeply rooted in their children's safety and growth.

The butt curtain is also unique to children's clothing.

Children usually wear a few years of open crotch pants, and winter is very cold, how to do it? That year, the head did not "diaper", had to use cloth to sew a cotton ass curtain, tied on the waist, hanging behind the waist.

Here is the edge, and the outer side of the butt curtain should be pieced together with square or prismatic cloth.

Nowadays, young people do not think that in the past, who had children, they should send "happy eggs" that had been dyed red to their neighbors' homes, that is, cooked eggs, and sent to the house by plate.

Who has accepted the red delicious egg, should pick up a few pieces of cloth left by the rest of their own sewing clothes and put them in the dish to give the happy egg people.

In this way, people who give birth to children will receive many kinds of cloth heads.

The housewife cut it into the same size square, then stitched it up and stitched it into a large piece of cloth. It could be used to make baby quilts, cotton padded clothes, or make a butt curtain. It meant to bring all the blessings together and bring good luck to children.

Think about how peaceful and peaceful it is.

A dream of Red Mansions wrote third times when Jia Baoyu was dressed at home at the children's time: "a short hairpin around the head, and all of them were braid, and the red silk was over, and the top of the hair was stored in the middle. The chief editor had a big braid, black and bright like a paint, from top to tip, a string of four big beads, with gold eight treasure pendant angle, and wearing a silver red sprinkled flower half old coat, still wearing a collar, Bao Yu, a name lock, amulet and other things; the following half of the flowers were covered with colored flowers, and the brocade side of the trouser legs, the brocade side playing the ink socks, the thick bottom big red shoes.

Together with the previous routine, we can see the visual image in the Qing Dynasty woodcut youth paintings.

To see the world's traditional children's clothes, there are a series of dress customs that are handed down from generation to generation. Among them, all kinds of rules, ranging from a red line to a new loop, have a very deep culture and can tell a fascinating legend.

Children's clothing is always lovely, but the ancient children's clothes are more exquisite.