Two or three things about how men dressed up in the Tang Dynasty: It’s not strange to wear hairpins and make up, and various tattoos are very popular

If we talk about the dress of men and women in the Tang Dynasty, there are many topics to talk about. From men's clothes, socks, shoes and hats to women's gold hairpin skirts, as well as the Tang makeup derived from the women of the Tang Dynasty, they have always been a hot topic among people.

Although people usually like to say that a person relies on clothes and a horse relies on saddle, but if you want to perfectly dress up a person, it is actually not possible to rely on clothes. When men in the Tang Dynasty dressed themselves up, their aesthetic tastes were very different from men in the past.

So, when men in the Tang Dynasty dressed up, what little habits did people talk about?

In the early days, men were not so particular about their appearance and temperament. They preferred masculine faces.

However, during Wu Zetian's period, due to her personal preferences, she raised many men with similar faces. These men were very outstanding in appearance. In order to make the Queen like them more, they need to make themselves look better.

Except for Wu Zetian, many princesses in the Tang Dynasty also had the habit of keeping good looks. Most of those men were "serving others with sex", so they would pay great attention to the beauty of their appearance, lest they would be disliked.

However, at that time, most of the men who were well-dressed in makeup were men who were dedicated to serving others with sex, and the trend in society as a whole was relatively normal.

However, with the change of people's aesthetic concepts in the Tang Dynasty, the behavior of being keen on dressing up gradually became popular in the entire society and spread to hundreds of people. Sometimes a man who is naturally very dominant in appearance will inadvertently perform a behavior that will attract others to imitate him.

Lu Yan from Tang Dynasty is a person who is very good at dressing up. Today he will definitely become a very good fashion blogger. Because he became more beautiful after wrapping his head with a gauze scarf, others began to imitate him.

Lu Yan didn’t want to “match” others’ clothes, so he cut off a corner of the silk scarf in a creative way. At this time, it was not easy to imitate, because ordinary people would only imitate the effect after doing it.

In the Tang Dynasty, hairpins were a way for some men to dress themselves up, but in fact this method did not spread across the country. The reason is simple, because the vast majority of men at that time did not consciously agree with this matter.

Therefore, men’s hairpins are only popular among a small group of men.

It was a very common behavior for women in the Tang Dynasty to wear hairpins. There is an ancient painting called "Ladies with Hairpins", which depicts maids in the Tang Dynasty wearing hairpins on their heads. But in fact, at that time, there were also men who occasionally wore hairpins, but only within a very small range.

Through some poems, we can actually see the mark of male hairpins in the Tang Dynasty.

Du Mu mentioned the behavior of men arranging flowers in "Climbing the Mountain in Nine Days": "It is rare to smile in this world, and you must return home with a head full of chrysanthemums." Putting a head full of chrysanthemums, to this day From a human perspective, the picture is actually pretty cool.

Although men's hairpins were not yet popular in the Tang Dynasty, some "little fashionistas" had already smelled that it would be popular in the future, so they had the foresight to wear hairpins on men. .

In "Jianghuai Stranger Record", it is recorded that in the late Tang Dynasty, there was a man named Li Mengfu, who was a man who loved hairpins very much.

Although the last man’s behavior of wearing a hairpin was regarded as heresy by many people, in his own heart, with this flower on his hairpin, he was the most handsome man in the whole street. This unconventional The vision also indicates that men in later generations will also form a hairpin craze.

1. Tattoos have become popular, and if you don’t follow the crowd, you will look like you are not a social person

I once read a confession of a man with tattoos on Douyin, saying that even in today’s world In society, when people first see a tattooed man or tattooed woman, their brains will subconsciously send out a signal that "I'm afraid he is a bad person." Therefore, every time he goes out, he will face other people's strange looks.

"Tattoos = bad guys" seems to have been equated by people.

In fact, this concept not only existed now, but also existed in the Tang Dynasty. However, the practice of tattooing at that time did not mean that it was so directional.

In the Tang Dynasty, tattoos were practiced by both men and women, but women generally did it to make themselves look better, while men mostly did it to make themselves look more domineering.

For ordinary people, getting tattoos on the body is a relatively popular behavior. So when a person is wearing clothes, he looks like ordinary people, but when he takes off his clothes, the tattoos on his body will show that he is different.

During the Tang Dynasty, the tattoo industry was relatively mature, and there were many professionals on the market who served people who needed tattoos.

They are skilled in their skills. According to the customer's requirements, they draw patterns on the body, then start tattooing, and finally begin to apply a layer of ink on the skin, so that the tattoo becomes a permanent mark.

In the Tang Dynasty, even when tattoos were most popular in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, most of the people who chose to have tattoos on their bodies were various "social people". They may have tattoos on their bodies due to the nature of their work or their personality.

In addition, there is another characteristic of Tang people's tattoos, that is, they cover a very large area.

Most people today, regardless of men or women, get tattoos for the sake of appearance. Only those who seek a domineering air will choose to have tattoos all over their body. Men in the Tang Dynasty had a habit of getting tattoos, and they liked to show off in public with all their tattoos.

This is the confidence of people in society. Because tattoos look domineering, many "gangsters" like to have tattoos all over their bodies. They also like to choose some more powerful-looking tigers with two heads in the pictures. Animals like snakes. There is no problem in shocking the timid common people with this spectacular scene.

2. The tattoos of Tang Dynasty people also have the meaning of showing that they are a cultural person or a fanatical supporter of great poets and idols

It is said that men in the Tang Dynasty got tattoos because they wanted to be They look more powerful and can bluff people. Most of these are social people. Then there is another kind of male people who like to use tattoos to show that they are a cultured person or have a fanatical admiration for a great poet.

In terms of tattoo content, the tattoos on men in the Tang Dynasty include animals that look domineering and mighty, and various poems.

Yes, many men in the Tang Dynasty had a special liking for poetry when getting tattoos. Therefore, poetry-style tattoos are also very popular among ordinary people.

In the book "Xiyang Zazu", it is recorded that many "weird people" who made outstanding contributions to the tattoo industry in the Tang Dynasty include those who tattooed ferocious animals on their bodies, as well as those who tattooed their bodies on their bodies. Poetic.

Bi Shuo Shuo It records that a man named Ge Qing in the Tang Dynasty carved thirty poems by Bai Juyi from the neck down. Not only that, each poem also has its own accompanying picture.

Therefore, Ge Qing’s whole body can be said to be filled with calligraphy and paintings. I wonder if Bai Juyi would feel very honored to know that he has such a fanatical fan.

In addition to expressing one's fanatical support and love for idols, poetry tattoos also have a function of showing that one is a cultured person.

In "Xiyang Zazu", there is also a story about a Tang Dynasty man who got tattoos with poetry.

A man named Wei Shaoqing tattooed a painting on his body, which is about the "Evening Scene of Jackdaws Gathering, Autumn Wind Traveling Swallows Returning" in "Evening View of Yuezhou" by Zhang Ji, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. artistic conception.

But when Wei Shaoqing made requirements for the tattoo artist, he changed the "evening scene" into "ten thousand mirrors". Once the poem changed, the picture tattooed on his body also changed. So at that time, Wei Shaoqing was ridiculed a lot because of this mistake.

It can be seen that those Tang people who were uneducated and did not know how to write and write should still be cautious when tattooing poems on their bodies! After all, if you are not careful, you will make a big joke.

But in any case, tattooing, a performance art, was a choice that many men in the Tang Dynasty made when dressing up. It was relatively civilian.

Everyone has a love for beauty. Men in the Tang Dynasty could choose to be a powerful man or a delicate pig boy. In the final analysis, it was because the society at that time had such a Just be more tolerant!