Clothing Culture In Han Dynasty

(206 BC ~ 220 AD)

In order to maintain a unified great power, the Han Dynasty needed to establish an idea to bind the people of the world. Culture Confucianism and other cultures are the mainstream, and the ritual culture has been further improved. The consolidation of the political power, the development of economy and the vigorous activity of diplomacy have brought about remarkable changes in the fashion of the Han Dynasty. In the more realistic, simple, and magnificent, there is a spirit of breaking the old and creating the new style, which contains a momentum that only respects the whole world and looks at the crowd.

As a garment, it will naturally exhibit its own characteristics in this cultural background. The founding fathers and ministers of the Han Dynasty were all the people of Chu. clothing To a certain extent, they followed the style of Chu clothes, and accepted the Qin culture and the Central Plains culture with a broad mind. The pattern of Han Pao changed from the symmetry rules of the pre Qin period to the asymmetrical pattern of flowing, lively and dexterous, and absorbed the design theme of the western national fabric, which greatly enriched the aesthetic content of the costume pattern. The Han Pao is divided into two pieces: the right and the right, the collar and sleeves are lace, and the rhombohedral and checkerboard are the most numerous. The tunic robe was popular in the Western Han Dynasty. It was a triangular piece of silk on the right side of the dress, extending the length of the garment, leading the tip to the rear and then moving from the left armpit to the front of the body. In the silk paintings unearthed from the Han tomb in Mawangdui, Changsha, the tunic robes worn by women were large and beautiful in the hem. Later, because of the emergence of a kind of short pants, like a calf nose, also called calf nose, the cloak function of Qu Yuan disappeared, and the more convenient straight line was taken seriously.

Double winding Tunic

straight-front robe

Speaking of the Han Dynasty, the other thing I have to mention is silk 。 Sericultural silk has always been in the leading position in the production of textile materials since the slave society. The Han Dynasty inherited the essence of Chu's south and North, which was unique in the East and West, and blended the fabric technology of all parts of the country. Printing and dyeing technology and textile machinery were also improving. The most common folk handicraft was also the textile industry, resulting in an unprecedented abundance of silk products. The addition of the official weaving factory made silk from the advanced material that was formerly only a feudal aristocrat into a fabric that ordinary people could also use. Generally speaking, silk textile has promoted the development of silk textile technology to a large extent, further improved the quality of silk, and reached the peak of clothing materials for a time. The most typical example is the plain gauze cicada unearthed from the Han tomb in Mawangdui, Changsha, which is 1.28 meters long and 1.9 meters long. It is made up of two parts, the coat and the lower garment. The common material is about 2.6 square meters, weighing only 49 grams, and the exquisite weaving technology is amazing. Contemporary experts have tried to replicate the cicada, but still can not achieve that light quality.