Why are women's skirts called pomegranate skirts?

Pomegranate flower has three colors of "red, yellow and white", which is closely related to China's costume culture, and people especially appreciate safflower. Ancient women wore skirts and preferred red. At that time, the pigment of the red skirt was mainly extracted from pomegranate flowers, so people called the red skirt "pomegranate skirt".

Pomegranate skirt is a very popular dress style for young women in Tang Dynasty. This kind of skirt is as red as pomegranate and does not dye other colors, which often makes the woman wearing it look handsome and moving. Because the pomegranate skirt is enduring, it is said that men are conquered by beauty, which is called "falling under the pomegranate skirt".

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"Fall at the feet of pomegranate skirt" is a common saying to describe men's admiration for romantic women. The appearance of this proverb is related to the Tang emperors Li Longji, Yang Yuhuan and Yang Guifei.

It is said that Yang Guifei likes pomegranate very much. Therefore, Tang planted many pomegranates in Xixiuling and Wang Mu Temple near Huaqing Palace for her to watch. Tang loves to watch Yang Guifei's drunken state, and often makes her drunk to see her charming state.

Pomegranate can sober up, so after reading it, Tang often peeled pomegranate and fed it to Yang Guifei's mouth. The minister of the DPRK was very upset about this and complained to Yang Guifei day by day. Yang Guifei is very unhappy about this.

One day, Emperor Tang Ming invited ministers to a banquet and invited Yang Guifei to play music to entertain the guests. Yang Guifei deliberately broke a string when the music played to the most beautiful sound, which made the music impossible to play. Don asked what the reason was. Yang Guifei took the opportunity to say that because the courtiers who listened to the song were disrespectful to her, the god of Siqu cried foul for her, so the string was broken.

Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty believed her words very much, so he issued an imperial edict: in the future, no matter ministers or ministers, anyone who saw the imperial concubine must bow down or be killed. From then on, when ministers saw Yang Guifei, they all fell to the ground in fear.

Because Yang Guifei always likes to wear skirts embroidered with pomegranate on weekdays, those ministers privately joke with the words of "falling at the pomegranate skirt".

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