Empress, self-proclaimed: Ai Jiatai is later called the prince, the emperor is called Ai Fei, and the concubine is called the queen.
Concubine, claiming to be: the queen mother of our palace called a concubine, the emperor called it a love princess, and the queen called it a sister.
Prince, self-proclaimed: son minister, queen mother, grandson, emperor, queen and prince.
Princess, self-proclaimed: the queen mother of this palace is called princess, and the emperor and queen are called daughters or sisters.
The robes of the Qing emperor
The costumes of the emperors in the Qing Dynasty included court clothes, auspicious clothes, regular clothes and travelling clothes. The emperor's robes belong to the category of auspicious clothes, which are slightly inferior to those of court clothes and clothes, and usually wear more. When wearing a dragon robe, you must wear an auspicious dress crown, tie an auspicious dress belt and hang beads. Dragon robe is mainly bright yellow, and it can also be used in golden apricot and other colors. In ancient times, it was called the position of emperor, which was the honor of the ninth five-year plan. The number of the Ninth Five-Year Plan is usually a symbol of nobility, which is embodied in royal buildings, household appliances and so on. According to the literature, nine dragons were embroidered on the robes of the Qing emperor. From the physical point of view, there are only eight dragons before and after, which is inconsistent with the written records and lacks a dragon. Some people think that there is a dragon that is the emperor himself. In fact, this dragon exists objectively, but it is embroidered in a skirt, which is generally not easy to see. In this way, each dragon robe is actually Kowloon. From the front or back, you can see five dragons, which coincides with the figures in the Ninth Five-Year Plan. In addition, the hem of the dragon robe is obliquely arranged with many curves, which are called water feet. Below the foot of the water, the waves are rolling, and above the waves, it is a treasure house of rocks, commonly known as "all rivers run into the sea", which not only means endless auspiciousness, but also means "unification of mountains and rivers" and "eternal peace"
The phoenix robe of the Qing empress
The style of the queen's uniform is basically similar to that of Manchu ladies. Round neck, big skirt, collar, sleeves and skirt are decorated with wide lace, but the patterns are different. The clothing pattern shown in this picture is a phoenix wearing peony. The whole dress is embroidered with the Eight Phoenix Robes of the Qing Empress on bright blue satin.
Between Cai Feng and Cai Feng, there are several peonies interspersed. The color of peony is quiet and elegant, and the color changes vividly, which has the characteristics of traditional landscape painting. On the contrary, the color of Phoenix is strong, and the contrast between red and green is very strong, which has typical national style and characteristics of the times.
Empress dowager, empress, imperial concubine and imperial concubine are crowned with smoked mink, decorated with Zhu Wei (a pattern); The color of the dragon robe is azurite with embroidery; The robe is bright yellow, and the lucky clothes of Prince Fujin and Prince Fujin are crowned with smoked minks and rubies on the top. Prince Fujin's auspicious clothes are embroidered with azurite; Prince Fujin embroidered robes, which are fragrant in color and embroidered with nine pythons and five claws; From the first grade to the ninth grade, the wives of civil and military officials wear complementary clothes, all of which follow their husbands' grades, and the shape of the complementary clothes is square. In the late Qing dynasty, the official wife used round compensation. Yipin civil servants embroidered cranes; Second-class embroidered golden pheasant; Three embroidered peacocks; Four kinds of embroidered geese; Five-needle embroidered silver pheasant; Six embroidered egrets; Seven products embroidered chicken? ; Eight products embroidered quail; Nine-level uncultured embroidered magpie. The military attache embroidered Kirin; Second-class embroidered lion; Sanpin embroidered leopard; Four products embroidered tiger; Five embroidered bears; Six or seven embroidery marks; Eight products embroidered rhinoceros; Nine stitches embroidered seahorse. Ladies with no taste wear sky-blue dresses. No need for patches, red skirts and embroidered sleeves are free. And I can only use pink and light blue. In the Qing Dynasty, there were no regulations on the phoenix crown of the Ming Dynasty (also known as the "pearl crown", because the crown was mainly decorated with pearls), Xiaguan, python clothes and so on. In short, all kinds of Ming clothes in Qing Dynasty were decorated with embroidered pythons. This is somewhat different from that of the Ming Dynasty. The gown of the Ming Dynasty embroidered not pythons, but only pheasants, peacocks, mandarin ducks and practicing magpies.