In the Song Dynasty, trendy and cool men dressed like this

In the Song Dynasty, fashionable men and cool men dressed like this

Do you know how to dress as a fashionable man in this season of the Song Dynasty?

A hairpin on your head! Do you still remember the shocking scene in "Water Margin" where the most fashionable man, Ximen Qingyi, appears with a big red flower on his head?

As the most dressed-up man in the whole drama, he did this, but there was nothing wrong with it in the Song Dynasty.

The emperors of the Song Dynasty were the leaders in the trend of wearing flowers. They liked to give flowers from the palace back garden to their ministers and let them wear them on their heads.

Song Huizong, who invented the thin gold body and the unique use of the word "Bei Shou", pushed the hairpin style to the extreme. Not only did he love wearing flowers himself, but he also asked everyone to wear flowers. He also specified in detail who should wear what kind of flowers. For example, imperial guards wear green-leaf gold flowers, the emperor wears silk flowers when meeting foreign guests, the imperial court holds large-scale receptions twice a year in spring and autumn, and uses silk flowers, and small banquets use pink-leaf gold flowers...

It can be imagined that at this time in the Northern Song Dynasty, the streets of Tokyo (now Kaifeng), the world's fashion center, were full of trendy men wearing hairpins with seasonal flowers. If a man goes out without wearing flowers, others will laugh at him for being old-fashioned.

Yang Wanli once wrote a poem about this kind of scene with bright purple and red on everyone's head: "There is no need for Jiegu to remind the spring. The king brings spring back on the first day of the year. Peonies, peonies and roses are all on the hats of thousands of officials. "Open."

You may want to ask, is this trend so evil, are there no resisters? Let me tell you responsibly, there are. For example, Sima Guang, who broke vats when he was a child and compiled "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" when he grew up. When he was 20 years old, he won the Jinshi very impressively and participated in the wedding banquet held by the court for the new Jinshi. Song Renzong gave everyone a flower, and others quickly put it on to express gratitude. Sima Guang was a child prodigy who had his own opinions since he was a child. In full view of everyone, he, no, wore it! He reluctantly kept it on the brim until someone reminded him.

In addition to Sima Guang, there were also other officials who resisted. After all, this trend has not been popular in other dynasties; and this kind of strange dress is not suitable for everyone. People with good looks can become fragrant and beautiful by wearing flowers. If people with limited looks have limited looks, the style of wearing flowers will be...

For those who are not used to wearing flowers The censor (supervisory agency) of the Song Dynasty quickly took action: if the official did not wear the gifted flower on his head and go home, he would be impeached!

Under such strong promotion, the hairpin fashion quickly became popular. Officials wear flowers, businessmen wear flowers, and people in the world also wear flowers. Among Liangshan heroes, there are many who wear flowers. There was a criminal thief who loved flowers and gave him the nickname "Three Flowers". Because the name was too loud, it was quickly misappropriated. Some people called it Four Flowers, Seven Flowers, and Nine Flowers. Those who didn’t know thought they were a few pretty girls, but they never thought they were a bunch of vicious old men...

Compared with the elegant fashion of hairpins, tattoos are Its popularity is mind-boggling. Because Confucian culture has always emphasized that "the body, hair and skin are received from parents and dare not be damaged." However, when people encounter trends, they will choose to follow the trend.

Tattoo originated from ink torture, one of the five major tortures in ancient times. Ink punishment refers to tattooing words on the face or forehead of the person being tortured and dyeing them with ink to show punishment.

However, in the Song Dynasty, Mo Xing changed and became a social fashion that people competed to imitate. In "Water Margin", the prodigal Yan Qing successfully attracted the attention of Li Shishi, a sister in the entertainment industry, with her beautiful tattoos.

Tattoo culture flourished in the Song Dynasty, and even proper nouns appeared, such as "flower legs", which refers to tattoos on both legs starting from the buttocks and ending at the feet. General Zhang Jun of the Southern Song Dynasty had a "flower-legged army" under his command. Everyone in this army has tattoos, so if they escape one day, they will be easily discovered.

Fashionable young people in Tokyo were attracted by this coolness and praised it one after another, wishing they could get one for themselves too. No, walking on the streets of Tokyo, in addition to trendy men with hairpins, there are also cool men who are "shirtless and wearing cotton that looks like words".

These cool men also set up a special society "Jinti Club" to spare no effort to promote tattoo culture. As a result, a group of royal family members also became fans, but the government was extremely unfavorable to tattoos and issued repeated orders that no members of the royal family should be allowed to have tattoos.

But ordinary people don’t have these taboos. They can stab wherever they want and whatever they want. Some people tattooed poems, some tattooed paintings. There was a man named Ge Qing, who was a huge fan of Bai Juyi. He tattooed a picture of "Bai Sheren's Poems" on himself.

A storybook from the Song Dynasty records a scene of a tattoo fight: The two had a fight, and when they got to the place, they took off their clothes without saying a word. One person's tattoo was exposed first, and the onlookers clapped and applauded: on the left arm of the full-body sculpture, three immortals holding swords, on the right arm, five ghosts capturing the dragon; on the chest, there is a royal screen, and on the back, a Bashan dragon emerges from the water. Another man also took off his shirt. The tattoo on his body was a wooden ladder with the character "Huang Pang'er Ren" tattooed on his body. The latter's tattoos were not outstanding, and the onlookers suddenly dispersed. Then, these two men remembered that they still had to deal with the serious business of fighting.

Ordinary people love tattoos, but tattooing is popular among the military. For example, Yue Fei, who is well known to people all over the country, is said to have the four words "Serve the Country with Loyalty" tattooed on his back by his mother. Only your own mother had the words tattooed on your back, but someone else would have tattooed the words on your face - in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, Wang Yan, a famous anti-golden general, had his subordinates tattooed on their faces with the words "Serve the country with all my heart and swear to kill the gold thieves". They are known as the "Eight-Character Army".

The even more ruthless one is this one, the general Hu Yanzan. Not only did he pierce his body with "Kill the Thief with a Heart", he also asked his wife, son, and servants at home to pierce him in the same way. My wife said that it was unruly for women to have tattoos on their faces, so she got permission to have the tattoos tattooed on their arms instead.