Now speaking of dragon robes, it is generally said to be yellow, but because the Qin Dynasty wanted to destroy the Zhou Dynasty, which claimed to be a fire virtue, Qin Shihuang declared that he had water virtue, and the representative color of water in the five elements was black, so the imperial robes of the Qin Dynasty were all black, and the Han Dynasty continued to follow this tradition. Later generations thought that the emperor lived in the Central Plains and ruled the earth according to the five elements, and the representative color of the middle earth in the five elements was yellow, so yellow became the special color of emperors in previous dynasties, and of course, so did the Mongols.
The colors of official uniforms are: purple robes with more than three products, goldfish bags; Five or more scarlet robes, wearing whitebait bags; Green robe under six grades, no fish bag. If an official has a high position but a low rank, he still has to dress according to the original product. If you are a prime minister and don't get the three products, you must bring a Zijin fish bag in your official title; The governor of the state secretariat wears robes regardless of rank. This system was completely abolished in the Qing dynasty, and only the hat top and auxiliary clothes were made separately. In short, the official uniforms of the Qing dynasty were all blue in principle, and they could only be crimson when celebrating. Jackets are usually red and blue, and plain colors are changed to black.
Clothing in the late Qing Dynasty is particularly complicated, and it is not allowed to be abused according to the size of the official position. As far as robes are concerned, there are embroidered robes and supplementary clothes. Embroidered robe is a robe embroidered with python shape worn by officials. The first to third products are nine pythons and five claws; Four to six products are eight pythons and five claws; Seven to nine products (and not inflow) are five pythons and four claws.
Auxiliary clothing is a coat added to the embroidered robe, and the square pattern of birds and animals is embroidered with gold thread in the middle. Civil servants are bird-shaped: a crane; Second-class golden pheasant; Three peacocks; Four products of snow geese; Five-product silver pheasant; Six kinds of egrets; What are the seven products? Me; Eight quails; Nine-product sparrow; The dirty is the oriole. The pattern of the military attache's auxiliary clothing is animal-shaped; Yipin Kirin; A second-class lion; Sanpin leopard; Four products are tigers; Five products are bears; Six products and seven products are the standard; Eight rhinos; It's the hippocampus.
The above is general, but there are exceptions. For example, judicial officials, such as censors and censors, wear auxiliary clothes. Because the ancients thought that "arrogance" was a magical sheep that could distinguish right from wrong.