Why is only Qin Shihuang wearing a black dragon robe? What secrets are hidden in the black of the Qin Dynasty?

Because Qin advocated black at that time, black was the color of emperors in Qin, and ordinary people could not wear black. At that time, Qin Shihuang believed in the theory of five elements and thought that black could bring prosperity to Qin, so he chose black. The theory of five elements corresponds to five virtues respectively. Qin Shihuang advocated black because he was a water virtue. In different dynasties, the color of the dragon robe will be different, because the color of the emperor's belief is different.

In the Qin Dynasty, because Qin Shihuang thought that water would bring him good luck, in the theory of five elements, water virtue represented black, so people at that time always advocated black. Because black is the color of emperors, ordinary people in the Qin Dynasty are not qualified to wear black. So at that time, most people in the Qin Dynasty wore simple clothes and liked clothes with complicated colors.

For the emperor, because of advocating black, only the emperor can wear black, while most people wear white. Only with the alternation of dynasties, because the emperors believed in different theories, the colors of dragon robes would be different. In the Han Dynasty, because Liu Bang advocated red at that time, Liu Bang's robes were generally red, but Liu Bang wanted to integrate the costumes of the Qin Dynasty, so the robes were all black and red.

After Wendi unified the world, Wendi changed the color of the dragon robe to yellow because he advocated soil. Later, there was a yellow dragon robe, and yellow was the representative color of the emperor. No matter the prince, grandson, aristocrat or ordinary people, they are not qualified to wear yellow. In Tang Gaozu's time, because Li Yuan always set the color of robes as yellow, it was stipulated that only the emperor could use yellow. Therefore, yellow is also exclusive to the emperor, and the yellow robe continued until the Qing Dynasty. However, after the disintegration of feudal rule, the dragon robe became useless and became a museum collection.