Old almanac terminology: What does tailoring mean? What does tailoring mean?

Introduction: Now if we want to wear new clothes, we just go to the street and buy one, or we can buy several. But in ancient times, wearing new clothes was a very careful thing, especially before getting married. So what does tailoring mean? To put it simply, it means making a new piece of clothing, but in the old almanac terminology, what tailoring means needs to be introduced in detail.

Tailoring: One month before the wedding, the man should prepare wine, blue cloth and gold and silver hairpin rings to the matchmaker and send them to the woman's home.

In addition, tailoring also refers to cutting funeral shrouds.

Tailoring in ancient times was also very particular.

Whether it is the Qin and Han Dynasty's deep skirt with a deep skirt or the Ming Dynasty skirt with "six traces of Xiangjiang water", although the clothing of each dynasty has The styles will have their own general styles, but they are very particular about stitching, wiring, fabrics, and patterns.

The materials used for clothing include "big red satin", "sprinkled crepe", "flowered eight-tufted Japanese satin", "autumn mink", "squirrel skin", "yellow" There are more than 30 kinds of silk fabrics, including silk fabrics and feather satin fabrics.

The workmanship is divided into "gold and hundreds of butterflies", "multi-colored silk carving", "tooth-inserting vest", "two-color gold and hundreds of butterflies wearing flowers", "multi-colored silk with flowers and long spikes", "drafting" "Eight groups of rows of ears" and other hundreds of varieties.

The so-called clothing is the collective name of clothing and accessories. There are so many "rings", "gong sash", "hairpin", "pei", "golden crown" and "wiping forehead".

There are even more styles, including "narrow-leg coat", "silver coat", "yang crepe skirt", "vest", "Shuichao boots", "big coat", "flower damask" "Pants", "Xialei", "cloak", "leather skirt", "cotton skirt"... there are clothes for all four seasons in spring, summer, autumn and winter.

In the past, every piece of clothing was purely handmade, which is naturally very different from today's machine-made textiles. Threading needles, robbing needles, net embroidery, spreading needles, flat gold, oblique wrapping, plate gold, pine needles... velvet embroidery is elegant and beautiful, ring gold velvet embroidery is rich and brilliant, flat gold and flat silver embroidery is dazzling, plate gold inlaid with silver is colorful and full .

The little embroiderer with skillful hands has countless patterns, and each one has rich meaning and good luck.

The importance of wedding attire in ancient times

First, let’s talk about the wedding attire of the Zhou Dynasty. We all know that the Zhou Dynasty was a dynasty that relied on the ritual and music system to maintain its rule. Therefore, the wedding etiquette of this period was very complicated. On the day before the wedding, the husband's family will send a matchmaker to the bride's house to meet the father-in-law, and must wear the traditional dress of the time. On the wedding day, the groom will wear a red top and black dress to pick up the bride, while the bride will wear a black wedding dress (meaning single-mindedness) and be led by an older Quanfu woman, accompanied by two married women. The girl goes to the groom's house. In addition, the clothes of all women and married girls must also be black. It is worth mentioning that during the Zhou Dynasty, there was already the thought of the Five Elements, which emphasized the harmony of yin and yang. Therefore, the groom's clothes should have black edges, and the bride's clothes should have red edges.

In the prosperous age of the Tang Dynasty, society was stable and the economy was prosperous. The clothing culture of this era was more diversified than that of the previous dynasty. For example, the chest-length skirt was It became popular during this period, and women's clothing also exposed half of the breasts. This shows that the Tang Dynasty is no longer as cumbersome and conservative as the Zhou Dynasty. The wedding clothes of this period will of course be changed compared with the Zhou Dynasty. In addition, Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty's Kaiyuan Dynasty In its prosperous age, the Tang Dynasty was a prosperous scene, and the wedding clothes here must be extremely gorgeous. There is a saying in the Tang Dynasty that "red men and green women" means that men's wedding clothes are red and women's wedding clothes are green, that is, Tsing Yi. This combination of red and green seems a bit eye-catching? In fact, it is not the case. The red and green combination of Tang Dynasty wedding clothes is just right. The bride and groom standing together are quite eye-catching.

In the Song Dynasty, there were new changes in wedding clothes. During this period, the grooms had different statuses and different wedding clothes. The wedding attire of the princes, nobles and officials' children is the ninth-grade Futou uniform, while ordinary people can only wear soap shirts and folded scarves.

At the same time, wealthy brides in the Song Dynasty began to wear phoenix crowns and harems, while ordinary brides could only wear flower hairpins. But the color of their wedding clothes is still cyan, but compared with those of the previous dynasty, they have more auspicious patterns. In the Ming Dynasty, the color of women's wedding clothes changed to the bright red that we can see in costume movies and TV dramas. Wedding clothes during this period paid attention to matching. If the groom wears dark clothes, the bride must wear a red jacket and a red skirt; if the groom wears a ninth-grade official uniform, the bride must wear a red coat with large sleeves and a red pleated skirt. Maybe this is the original version of the couple's costume!

In the Qing Dynasty, the Manchus entered the country and ruled the world. The wedding clothes during this period naturally had the style of the Manchu flag dress, but they still followed the Han people's phoenix crown and xiapei. , red wedding dress. This kind of inheritance is partly to appease the hearts of the Han people. After all, the Han people have ruled the world since ancient times. If the Manchus invade the ruling class, the Han people will be more or less reluctant. And if you want to better rule the Han people, you have to appease them. Because of the old-fashioned and conservative ideas in the heart of the Han people, things passed down by their ancestors cannot be touched. Therefore, the Manchu rulers of the Qing Dynasty tried to appease the Han people by inheriting some customs and habits from their ancestors. Finally, in the Republic of China, when Western culture entered China, white wedding dresses began to gradually become popular, slowly replacing traditional wedding clothes. The Chinese wedding dress that had been circulated for more than three thousand years finally came to an end.

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