Beijing Opera costumes were formed in the Qing Dynasty, and their clothing specifications and styles were based on those of the Ming Dynasty, which absorbed the typical elements of costumes of past dynasties and integrated and beautified them on the principle of being suitable for performances. It can be roughly divided into four categories: coat, second suit, third suit and cloud shoulder.

1, coat

Among them, the clothing names are: python, improved python, flag python, official dress, improved official dress, sergeant's dress, judge's dress, cardigan coat, crane coat, robe, monk's dress, pleated, palace dress, ancient costume, skirt, trousers, coat and other clothing accessories.

Most of the characters depicted in Coat are civil servants, ladies, gentlemen, ladies and maids. From the perspective of clothing styles, there is a prominent feature, that is, python, blue, pleated, open, palace clothes, gossip clothes, official clothes and other clothes have sleeves at the cuffs, which is the difference between the second and third clothes.

2. Two pieces of clothes

Clothing names include: lean meat, improved lean meat, arrow clothing (including dragon arrow clothing, flower arrow clothing, plain satin arrow clothing, cloth arrow clothing), jacket (including dragon coat, yellow satin coat, shovel coat), hug clothing (including flower, plain, velvet and cloth) and squat.

Most of the characters created by Er Yi Shang are marshals, generals, unruly heroes with high martial arts skills, fugitives and so on. In addition, from the perspective of clothing styles, there is another obvious feature, that is, the cuffs and trouser legs of all clothing are relatively tight, and no matter what style of clothing you wear, you must tie a big belt or other belts around your waist.

3. Three clothes

Sanyi, commonly known as boot box, contains mostly boots, shoes and underwear worn by characters. The names of items in the line can be divided into two categories, one is soft (such as water clothes, fat coats, colored pants, collars and big socks) and the other is hard (such as thick soles, Korean shoes, thin soles and colored shoes).

4. Cloud Shoulder

Also known as shawl, it is mostly made of satin and brocade. The cloud shoulder is mostly composed of four kinds of moire patterns, which are called four-in-one wishful pattern, willow pattern and lotus pattern.