The Evolution History Of Clothing Culture And Animals

Clothes and animals are usually considered to be a derogatory idiom.

Clothes: dress; crown: wear a hat.

Clothes and animals, as the name suggests, refer to animals dressed in clothes and caps.

But before the middle of the Ming Dynasty, clothes and animals were enviable words.

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According to the regulations, the official robe worn by officials at that time was "Wen bird Wu beast". Only when the official was in office could he put on his official uniform embroidered with birds or animals.

The earliest dressed animals were "official".

Nowadays, the word "clothes and animals" is almost interpreted as a derogatory term in many reference books such as the dictionary of the CI and the dictionary of idioms.

For example, in Shanghai's lexicon Publishing House published in 1979, it is very directly interpreted as "dressed animals and animals", comparing people with moral deterioration.

It is said that such a person has the appearance of human beings but behaved like animals.

Ming and Chen Ruyuan, "Jin Lian Ji": "everyone scolds me for being a beast of clothing, and everyone knows that I am a cultural relic."

In the dictionary of Chinese idioms published in Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House in 1987, the interpretation of this idiom is equally clear.

Clothes and animals: the animals in cloak and clothing are likened to those who are morally corrupt and behave like animals.

In fact, the word "clothes and animals" originated from the Ming Dynasty officials.

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The emperor of ancient times called himself "the Dragon Emperor", and the things that could best set off the emperor's "dragon image" were birds and animals.

Painted animals.

At that time, "dressed animals and birds" became synonymous with officials and officials.

What are the flying birds and animals on the ancient official robes?

What are the flying birds and the animals in the official gowns of ancient officials? What does the complement of various animal designs represent?

As is known to all, officials in Ming Dynasty are divided into nine categories, while clothing is strictly regulated according to the rank of officials.

According to the examination,

The system of making up the complement of birds and beasts to distinguish official ranks first started in Ming Hongwu twenty-four years (1391).

The complement is a piece of slit in the official.

The cloth on the top and the different animals embroidered on it represent the size of a man's office.

Therefore, the robe worn by ancient officials is also called "Bu Fu".

Since the Ming Dynasty, "Zi Zi" has been used for nearly 600 years as the rank symbol of official uniform, and has become the most prominent representative of the feudal hierarchy.

In the Ming Dynasty, the gowns of civil servants and officials in the Ming Dynasty were divided into three colors.

The color of one to four gowns is red, and the colors of five to seven products are blue. The color of eight to nine products is green.

Nine category

The nine kinds of birds are: Yi Fei gowns, embroidered cranes, two pin robes, embroidered golden pheasant, three pin robes, embroidered peacocks, four pin gowns, embroidered Yunyan, five fine green robes, embroidered white jellies, six green robes, embroidered egrets, seven green robes, embroidered sticks, eight green robes, embroidered oriole, nine green robes, embroidered quails.

The martial arts one product and two products are all gowns, painted lions, three pin robes, painted tigers, four pin robes, painted leopards, five fine green robes, painted bears, six products and seven products are green robes, painted Biao; eight green gowns, painted rhinoceros, nine green gowns, and painted seahorses.

The patterns and grades of birds and animals in the Qing Dynasty were similar to those of the Ming Dynasty, but there were some other changes.

The eight products of the civil servants were replaced by quails, and nine products were exchanged for training birds.

A military officer changed to a unicorn, three products to a leopard, and four products to a tiger.

It can be seen that "clothes and animals" were once an enviable word, and this is a commendatory meaning.

"Dressed animals" evolved into a derogatory term in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. At that time, because of corruption in officialdom, some officials were corrupt, bullying people and doing evil things, just like livestock, and the people gradually used the idiom of "clothes and animals" as a derogatory term.

The legend of clothes and animals

As for the origin of the derogatory meaning, the idiom of clothes and animals is also derived from the story of Yan Lian in the Song Dynasty, "the beast is human, and the human is the beast." Song Lian (1310-1381), Zi Jing Lian, and the buried stream, the people of Pujiang, Zhejiang (now Zhejiang Yiwu county), is a famous litterateur in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty. She was once known by the Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang as "the head of the founding of the country." the scholar called Tai Shi Gong, who was ordered to major in Yuan history, and wrote the seventy-five volume of the complete works of Song Xueshi. His prose had an important influence on the prose creation in the Ming Dynasty.

In the book of Yan, the story of clothes and animals tells us that there was a man named Xi Wang Xu in Qi State, who was originally engaged in shipping business.

One day, at sea, he was caught in a gale and the boat was overturned. He hurriedly seized the broken mast and floated for a long time.

When he came ashore, he ran through the deserted mountains and felt that he was going to die. Then he found a cave to kill himself. He hoped that his body would not be pecked by crows.

When he was walking towards the cave, an orangutan came out of the cave, and the gorilla saw him very pitifully. He took some food such as soybean, radish, millet and so on to let him eat.

The king of the West was hungry, and he devoured all the food.

At night, when the weather is cold, the orangutans fear that the king of the West should freeze to death. He also gives himself a feather hole and a small hole for sleeping.

Although the utterances of the orangutans are different from people, they seem to be trying to comfort the king's whisper every day.

After a year, one day, a big ship suddenly arrived at the foot of the mountain. The gorilla quickly escorted the emperor to the ship.

The king of the West must take a boat. The man on board is just his friend.

The gorilla on shore saw that the ship was going to sail, still standing in the distance looking at the big ship, and could not bear to leave.

The king said to his friend, "I heard that the blood of the orangutans can be stained with felt cloth, and it will not fade after 100 years.

This gorilla is very fat and stabs it to get a lot of blood. Why don't we go to shore and kill it? "Wang's friend heard this and was furious:" the beast is human, and you are human and the beast! "He said, the gorilla is a beast but very much like a human. Although you are a human being, you are very much like a wild beast! You are so ungrateful and do not kill you. What is the use?

The king of the west is not only sunk into the river but also left behind the beast of clothing, which is used to describe the idiom of those who "wear people's clothes but do not do things."