Do you see people wearing "traditional costumes" on the street? Are you curious about the clothes they wear?
In fact, Hanfu, as a traditional costume of the Han nationality, has set off a "retro" trend among young people in recent years. Wearing Hanfu on the streets has become a new fashion. The origin of Hanfu has a long history and its shapes vary. Today I will introduce to you the most popular skirt among girls in Hanfu.
The underskirt is one of the earliest and most basic clothing forms in the history of Han nationality clothing. It began in the Warring States period with physical evidence, and emerged in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and finally ended in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. In the long years of 2,000 years, the skirt has become more abundant in styles and patterns, but it still maintains the most basic shape, that is, the "top and lower skirt" system. The top is called "ru" and is shorter in length, generally no longer than the knee. The lower body is called "skirt". "Ruqun" is actually the collective name of two types of clothing. The poem "Han Yuefu" says "Xianqi is the lower skirt and Ziqi is the upper skirt" is a description of the Ruqun.
Based on the height of the skirt waist, the skirts are divided into waist-length skirts, high-waist skirts and chest-length skirts. Depending on the style of the collar, underskirts can be divided into cross-collar underskirts and straight-collar underskirts. According to the difference between whether it is tucked in or not, the skirt is divided into single skirt and compound skirt. The single skirt is closer to a shirt, and the compound skirt is closer to a coat. Men's underskirts are often called clothes.
Unearthed cultural relics
There are many classifications of underskirts, but the more common ones in modern times are chest-length underskirts, double-breasted underskirts and cross-neck underskirts.
Chest-length underskirt
The chest-high underskirt is a very high underskirt with a waistband that appeared in the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties periods. Since the Han and Jin Dynasties, the waistband of the skirt has been tied around the waist, while the belt of the chest-length underskirt has been tied above the chest. There are many beautiful poems describing the beauty of chest-length underskirts. "When you are sitting, your belt is lingering in the grass, and when you are walking, your skirt sweeps away plum blossoms." "The black eyebrows capture the color of day lilies, and the red skirt is jealous of the pomegranate flowers." It is said that one falls under the pomegranate skirt. This pomegranate skirt is a chest-length undershirt.
Chest-length underskirts are generally divided into double-breasted undershirts and cross-collar undershirts. Chest-length skirts were very popular among ladies in the Tang Dynasty. At this time, the economy was prosperous and the society was open, so the costumes were more colorful and gorgeous.
Chest-length underskirt
Double-breasted skirt
The upper skirt of the double-breasted skirt has a straight collar and the skirt is symmetrical, so it is called the double-breasted skirt. The double-breasted skirt originated in the Warring States Period and is characterized by a short top and long skirt. Avoid equality between top and bottom.
The double-breasted skirt in the picture of Han Xizai's night banquet
Cross-collar underskirt
The characteristic of the cross-collar skirt is that it is based on Confucianism. It was quite common in the Song Dynasty. Under the influence of the rational beauty of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, which "preserves the principles of nature and destroys human desires", the clothes of the Song Dynasty turned away from the gorgeous colors of the Tang Dynasty and formed an elegant and tranquil style. At this time, most Confucian tops had large lapels and half arms, and the lower skirts were mostly "thousand pleats" or "hundred folds" with a silk belt tied around the waist. The color of the skirt was generally brighter than the top, and the skirt material was mainly leno
According to style, it can be roughly divided into Tang-style cross-collar skirts, Song-style cross-neck skirts, Ming-style cross-neck skirts, etc.
Young people in contemporary society pay more and more attention to traditional culture, and the rise of Hanfu is one of the manifestations. I hope that while you like Hanfu, you also don’t forget the inheritance of culture. How can you say that without clothes, you can wear the same robe as your son? At the same time, it is recommended that people who are interested in Hanfu pay attention to the merchants when buying Hanfu for the first time to avoid buying inferior products.
