The Influence Of Chinese Climate On Ancient Costume Culture

Zhi Guang Lin

In people's clothing and food

I believe there is another important reason for this: winter is very cold in China. Many poor people are suffering from lack of clothing and cold.

The influence of "cold" has been widely penetrated into all aspects of Chinese culture and ancient life.

For example, people who call "ten years of cold windows" are "poor men". They call themselves "humble families" from their humble origins, and call their homes "cold homes".

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North lint, South wear, special climate special clothing.

The reason why winter is cold in China is due to the cold air in the north of Siberia (the northern hemisphere cold pole). Especially in the northern part of the country, it is very cold in winter and needs special warm clothing.

For example, Oroqen and other peoples living in Greater Khingan Range and nearby areas used to hunt mainly by hunting.

It is the coldest place in winter in China, and the extreme minimum temperature can drop to about 50 degrees below zero.

Their fur coat is mainly made of warm and light roe skin.

They used the whole leather caps of the roe deer's scalp, and because of their vividly realistic images, they also played the role of bewildered prey in hunting.

The sole of a roe skin boot is made of the skin of the neck of a roe deer. It is warm and light, and walks without sound. It can be close to wild animals and is not easy to detect.

The Hezhe people living in the Northeast Sanjiang plain used to live in fishing and hunting, so they also wore their unique fish skin clothes in their lives.

Because the rivers in Heilongjiang are cold in winter and cool in summer, and produce large fish (such as Huai tou, Zai Luo Yu, etc.).

After sun drying, beaten and softened, it becomes a lightweight, warm, wearable and impervious fish skin.

Fish skin trousers or their fishing clothes.

The Mongolian people live in Mongolia.

The broad hem of the Mongolia robe is convenient.

On the Qinghai Tibet plateau at an altitude of four or five kilometers, due to the low latitude plateau climate characteristics, winter winter gown is Tibetan robe.

In winter, the Tibetan robe is made of leather, long sleeved, wide waist, long and long.

When you wear a girdle, you must first pull up your robe until the hem is slightly below the knee, and then put down the robe after the strap. Naturally, the waist forms a large bag, which can carry the belongings, and the women even put them in.

The waist belt was untied at night, and the Tibetan robe became a sleeping bag.

Tibetan robes are very suitable for the low latitude plateau, and the heat flow is all over the sun. The rain and snow hail comes up and the temperature drops rapidly, and the body feels great changes in temperature.

So when it is hot, it often wears only the left sleeve.

When reheating, remove the right sleeve from the waist. It is flexible and convenient.

In tropical areas such as Southern China and southern Yunnan, the climate is hot.

Also worth mentioning is the raincoat.

This is the farmer's rain gear used in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the past, where there are farm jobs in all seasons, but it rains almost every season.

Wearing raincoats, that is, rice straw woven "raincoat", can make hands in the rain to do farm work.

Although the straw is easily wet by rain, it can guide the rain down because of the downward straw, so it can still work in general light rain.

According to records, the "headwear" of women in Penghu archipelago of Taiwan province is very peculiar.

They used two towels to masked, the last one, leaving only a stitch in the eye, which looked scary.

It turned out that it was mainly because of the strong wind in the Taiwan Strait, and the exposure of the face would be attacked by the strong wind.

This is the same as the weird mask worn by women in the north port of Fano Island, Denmark.

In winter, lint cotton is "bare", "early wearing a leather jacket and wearing a yarn at noon".

Tropical constant heat, cold and cold, the four seasons of clothing changes are not big.

Only in temperate zone and near China, especially in China, in winter, because the cold air of Siberia frequently goes south, the world is the most cold. In summer, the land is dry and hot, and the south is also controlled by the subtropical high pressure. It is also a hot place in the world at the same latitude (except for the plateau).

Therefore, China has become the world leader.

However, people can not hibernate like animals, nor can they migrate as migratory birds. They can only be adjusted by increasing or decreasing clothing.

Therefore, the eastern region of China is the biggest difference in the four seasons of the world on the same latitude.

Among them, the north of the northeast is the largest temperature difference between winter and summer in China, so it can be said that the biggest difference of winter clothing in the world is that although the temperature difference between winter and summer is bigger in Siberia than in the northeast, it is also the biggest temperature difference in winter and summer in the world, but it is very cold in winter and not hot in summer.

As a result of the cold winter and hot summer, the temperature changes in spring and autumn are very sharp. It makes China the shortest in the world in the same spring and autumn in the same latitude, and the fastest and fastest speed in the spring and autumn.

Especially in the north.

For example, Jiangnan can wear a sweater or a woolen vest almost all the way to Beijing. In some years, clothes can be worn even in a few days.

In addition to the annual variation of the temperature in winter and in summer, the diurnal variations of the cold and hot days of the night will also have an important impact on them.

In meteorology, the difference between the afternoon maximum temperature and the morning minimum temperature is the diurnal range of temperature.

The average daily temperature of China is diurnal, and the south is generally 6 degrees ~8 degrees Celsius. The climate in the north is dry and 10 degrees ~14.

The northwest desert and Plateau Basin even exceed 16 degrees ~17 degrees Celsius.

In the spring and Autumn period of Turpan basin in Xinjiang, there was a saying that "early wearing a leather jacket and wearing a yarn at noon".

However, I studied the temperature diurnal range of temperature in the urban area of Turpan, where the weather station was located at an altitude of 35 M.

However, I am sure that the place where China really can "wear a fur lined jacket and wear yarn" should still be in the Turpan basin.

The bottom of the Turpan basin, the bottom of the Aiding Lake, is 154 meters above sea level, where the basin's topography increases and the daily diurnal range of temperature can reach the maximum.

In the summer of 2008, China National Geographic magazine organized the "extreme exploration" scientific expedition. As a member of the expert group, I suggested that we should carry out the "hot pole exploration" at the bottom of Eden Lake (basically dried up in summer).

Indeed, we found the place where we could "wear the fur jacket and wear the yarn in the morning". That is, we observed that the temperature difference between day and night in these 2 days was 24.6 and 23.3 degrees, respectively, on average at about 24 degrees Celsius in August 2nd and 3rd, at the observation point of 150 meters above sea level.

According to the law of climate, the average temperature difference between Turpan and autumn is larger than that of summer, which is 1.5 degrees ~2 degrees Celsius. Therefore, the average diurnal temperature difference of the bottom of Eden lake can reach as high as 26 degrees Celsius (individual days will be much larger).

It means that there are quite a few days in the spring and Autumn period of the lake, and the highest temperature in the afternoon can be as high as 30 degrees centigrade, and the minimum temperature in the morning can be as low as below 4 degrees C.

Such a day can not be "wearing a fur lined jacket for a long time". After the first 4 hours after sunrise, according to my calculations, the temperature will rise by 16 degrees ~18 degrees.

So if there are residents there, I really don't know how they should change clothes frequently.