People in the Tang Dynasty thought that people who didn't conform to their own dress style were monsters. It can be said that it rejected "Cosplay" and rejected fashion.
So what exactly hindered the development of fashion trends in the Tang Dynasty? What does fashionable clothes have to do with demons?
1, "Demonization" has long appeared, and people in the Tang Dynasty only inherited and developed it.
In the Tang Dynasty, people associated costumes with "demons", which had an indelible connection with the long historical tradition in ancient times.
During the Jin dynasty, the "clothing demon" appeared long ago, and the Jin people were even more unacceptable to this trend.
For example, Qian Bao and A Jin people even thought in Searching for the Gods that men's clothes are long and women's clothes are short, which violates social ethics and makes social order chaotic, which is a social clothing phenomenon. Moreover, it is believed that the Yellow Scarf Uprising is related to this kind of clothing that does not conform to social development, so this kind of clothing was called demon clothing at that time.
In the early Jin Dynasty, people's clothes were simple in top, full in bottom, and the top was tied under the bottom. Qian Bao also thinks that this kind of dress all shows the decline of rulers and the indulgence of court ministers, and regards it as a unruly phenomenon that destroys customs.
In short, the demon costume originated in the Jin Dynasty and has a long history. In ancient history, this kind of demon clothing that violated the social atmosphere was a symbol of catastrophe, which made fashionable clothing unacceptable to ancient people.
2. The Tang people inherited the "backward" thought of their predecessors, and the trend was "demon".
During the Tang Dynasty, the decadent character thought made the fashionable clothes bear the name of "demon clothes", which hindered the "tide road" of the Tang Dynasty.
In the Book of Jin in the Tang Dynasty, we can see that the leopard has different views on "demon reduction" in many places in the book, which makes the characters' thoughts in the Tang Dynasty more decadent.
For example, it is mentioned in the Book of Jin that people often wear strange blue and white half-sleeved clothes, and the clothes they usually wear are not red and purple, which violates social customs. And people think that his failure to follow the dress customs is a major reason for his loss of the world.
It can be seen that in the Tang Dynasty, people often associated a person's failure with clothing when describing character events. This decadent personality thought eventually led to the long-term development of fashion in the Tang Dynasty, and it was branded as "demon clothing".
"cosplay" is very popular in modern times, which has also triggered the development of animation. But in the Tang Dynasty, people in the Tang Dynasty were disgusted with the fashionable Cosplay costumes. So what kind of development course did Cosplay experience in the Tang Dynasty? Why did the Tang people reject Cosplay so much?
1, women should wear women's clothes, and wearing men's clothes is against ethics.
In costume dramas, we often see scenes where women dress up as men. Can ancient people in real life accept this Cosplay dress?
Then the answer is definitely no, because in ancient society, women playing men and wearing fashionable men's clothes were rejected by contemporary people and were called demons. Therefore, girls who do not have certain confidence and courage dare not rashly carry out such Cosplay. What kind of development course did the ancient Cosplay demon costume go through?
In Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu called the fashion of "women disguised as men" in Tang Dynasty "demon costume", but you should know that Ouyang Xiu was not the first person to put forward "demon costume".
As early as thousands of years ago, during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there was a concept that "women disguised as men" was a demon. For example, Shen Yue, a native of the Southern Dynasties, once mentioned in Song Shu that men and women are different, and men and women should also be different in their costumes. Women should use gold and silver as jewelry, but now women use weapons to make jewelry, which is really a demon, which violates the rules that men and women are different, and even violates social ethics.
It can be seen that Jin people don't understand and accept the attitude of "women wear men's clothes", and even call this Cosplay dress a demon.
In the Tang Dynasty, the Cosplay dress of "women disguised as men" was loved by people, and demon clothes prevailed in society.
In the Tang Dynasty, a strange girl appeared in people's field of vision in the form of men's clothing at the banquet of Emperor Gaozong, and was called a demon costume. However, it won the love of Emperor Gaozong and Wuhou, making the devil costume a trend in society at that time. This strange girl is Princess Taiping of the Tang Dynasty. Then why is "women wearing men's clothes" called "rarity"?
It turned out that with the more open social atmosphere in the Tang Dynasty, "women wear men's clothes" was very popular in the Tang Dynasty, which made the emperors of the same era agree with this social dress of "women wear men's clothes".
And at that time, Princess Taiping won the favor of the emperor and the marquis of Wu. Under the influence of Wu Zetian, she showed strong feminist consciousness and pursuit of fashion.
As a result, she often wears men's clothes to attend major political activities, attracting people from all walks of life to follow suit. The dressing style of "women wear men's clothes" gradually became popular in the Tang Dynasty and became the trend of the times.
But the Song people didn't understand the openness of the Tang people. Conservatives in the Song Dynasty even thought that the dressing style of "women wearing men's clothes" was immoral, so they called the phenomenon of "women wearing men's clothes" rare in the Tang Dynasty and called this kind of clothing "demon clothes".
In a word, the demon costume has a long historical background in history. Although it prevailed in the Tang Dynasty, it still can't change the reality that people can't accept the Cosplay fashion.
2. Why did the Tang Dynasty oppose the trend so much? Or is Confucianism at work?
Although "women disguised as men" was particularly popular in the Tang Dynasty, it was deeply influenced by Confucian ethics. Cosplay's "women disguised as men" was opposed and even accused of "demon clothing".
Confucianism gradually matured in the Tang Dynasty, and the mature Confucianism had a far-reaching impact on people's food, clothing, housing and transportation. The Confucianism that men are superior to women and men are different is deeply rooted in people's hearts and buried in people's bones.
"Women disguised as men" just goes against the different moral ethics of Confucian men and women, and is regarded as an immoral social phenomenon.
Therefore, although "women disguised as men" had a popular period in the Tang Dynasty, Cosplay, which violated Confucian ethics, was eventually opposed by the Tang Dynasty and became a "demon costume" in the eyes of the ancients.
Although many people in the Tang Dynasty held a negative attitude towards fashion, they still could not change others' love for fashion. The rich even played various fashions in different ways.
1, bun, hair looks good as soon as it is trimmed.
Fake bun is a sharp weapon for ancient women to repair their capacity, and because of its high price, it is a luxury ornament for aristocratic women, which ordinary people can't enjoy.
Fake bun originated in Shang and Zhou dynasties, especially in Tang dynasty, but it is still called "demon costume".
In the Tang Dynasty, fake bun was especially loved by Yang Guifei, who often regarded it as her own jewelry. Unfortunately, an Shi rebellion broke out at that time, so people at that time thought that the disaster caused by Yang Guifei's fake bun demon costume ended in death.
It can be seen that although the bun is deeply loved by women, it still can't change the depressing ending, and the fashionable bun has also been crowned as a demon costume.
2, woven into a skirt-the return of birds makes people love.
Skirts have always been women's favorite. In the Tang Dynasty, women created colorful bird skirts. What was the bird skirt like in the Tang Dynasty?
A bird skirt is a woman's skirt that looks like a bird, woven with bird feathers. Hundreds of birds skirt is also called "woven skirt" in Tang Dynasty.
Legend has it that the bird skirt was created by Princess Anle in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, Princess Anle created a hundred-bird skirt that looked like a hundred birds and was very aura. Moreover, the color of this skirt is different at every angle and time, and the color is changeable and very beautiful.
However, due to the high production cost and exquisite craftsmanship of the system, ordinary people can't afford to wear such a skirt. The bird skirt is only popular among the rich and is deeply loved by the rich.
3. What hindered the pursuit of "trend" nature in the Tang Dynasty?
Thrift is one of the moral and ethical concepts in ancient China. People think that clothes should be simple rather than luxurious.
However, the clothing trends in the Tang Dynasty all reflected the luxurious style. These fashionable clothes are generally worn by rich people, and ordinary people can only dream. Costumes in the Tang Dynasty, full of extravagance, seriously violated the frugal social ethics, so they were called demon costumes.
In addition, influenced by Confucianism, people in the Tang Dynasty believed that frugality in clothing could stabilize social order and develop the country.
The fashionable and luxurious clothing was considered by people at that time as a failure to live up to social customs and a sign of national disaster.
Therefore, under the feudal ethics, frugal clothing and luxurious clothing formed a sharp contrast, which made the Tang Dynasty unable to accept this trend.