First, the wedding dress in Tang Dynasty
Guan Liang's dress, Tang Chai's wedding dress, combines the solemnity before and the warm celebration of later generations; In the Tang dynasty, men were dressed in crimson clothes and women in blue clothes, so-called men and women were also.
The dress of ladies-in-waiting in the late Tang Dynasty was developed on the basis of long-sleeved skirts or dresses with flower pins. There are many layers. When you wear it, it is layered, and then a wide-sleeved coat is put on the outside. Japan's famous ancient court kimono "Twelve Orders" evolved from this dress. Wearing this kind of clothes, there are golden flowers in the hair, so it is also called "hairpin gift clothes". Women's wedding dresses were often used as wedding dresses in the Tang Dynasty. After the Tang Dynasty, the complicated wedding dress was simplified, and it became a flower hairpin big sleeve shirt in the general sense.
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Second, the characteristics of wedding dresses in Tang Dynasty
The wedding dress made in the Tang Dynasty combines the solemnity of the past with the warm celebration of later generations. Men's clothes are scarlet and women's clothes are turquoise. Chai's dress is the dress of court maids in the late Tang Dynasty, wearing long-sleeved shirts, long skirts and silk, which was developed on the basis of Hua Chai's long-sleeved skirts or dresses. There are many layers. When you wear them, you can stack them one by one, and then put on a wide-sleeved coat outside. After the Tang Dynasty, this complicated wedding dress was simplified and turned into a general big sleeve shirt with flower hairpin. Under the influence of the imperial examination system, "fake clothes" appeared, that is, aristocratic descendants could wear coronation clothes or mourning clothes when they got married, officials' daughters could wear women's clothes consistent with their mothers' status, and civilians could also wear crimson dresses when they got married.
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Third, the characteristics of the costumes loved by different dynasties.
(1) Zhou wedding dress
China's crown service system was gradually improved in the Zhou Dynasty. With the emergence of the hierarchical seasonal system, all kinds of etiquette appear, and the costumes worn on different occasions are also different, including sacrificial dresses, ceremonial dresses, mourning dresses, wedding dresses and so on. The dress in the marriage system of Zhou Dynasty advocated correctness and solemnity, which was different from the wedding dress of later generations. The color of the wedding dress follows the Meng Xuan system. The groom's dress is a knight's robe, a white silk shirt, cymbals and red cymbals. The bride wears a decorative wig mixed with real hair, and the wedding dress has the same shape as the man. The only difference is the color of the skirt. The bottom of the coat is black, representing singleness.
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(2) Wedding dresses in the Ming Dynasty
In the Ming Dynasty, due to the rise of the literati class, culture developed by leaps and bounds, including wedding culture, so it had the greatest impact on modern times and developed complex systems and cultural terms. During the 400 years from the Ming Dynasty to modern times, civilian men married, commonly known as "Little Deng Ke", and they could wear nine official uniforms, blue-green nine official uniforms, and the bride used a crowned official uniform. Wearing a rockhopper, covering her face with red gauze, wearing a red Juan shirt, a red robe on her upper body, a lock on her neck, a demon mirror on her chest, a gown on her shoulders, a children's bag on her shoulder, a silver hand wrapped around her arm, and red satin embroidered shoes on her lower body. This is a typical traditional bride style.
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(3) Wedding dresses in Qing Dynasty
The costumes of the Qing Dynasty were influenced by ethnic minorities. The bride usually wears a red embroidered tunic or cheongsam, a vest-style robe specially designed by the imperial concubine, a red flower hairpin on her head, and a headscarf when attending the wedding. The groom usually wears a blue robe, a purple jacket, a warm hat, golden flowers and red silk to attend the wedding.
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(4) Yuan Dynasty wedding dress
The clothes of people in the Yuan Dynasty were mainly "drying clothes", which were short robes, tight and narrow, with many pleats at the waist. This kind of clothes is very convenient to get on and off the horse. Noble women in the Yuan Dynasty often wore a tall, long and eccentric hat, which was called the "crown". The robes they wear are wide and long, which makes it inconvenient to walk. They often need two maids to pull their robes behind them. Ordinary civilian women wear black robes.
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(5) Wedding clothes in the Han Dynasty
The main costumes of the Han dynasty are robes, straight single clothes, short clothes and skirts. In the Han dynasty, because the textile and embroidery industries were very developed, the rich could wear beautiful clothes of silk and satin. Ordinary people wear shorts and trousers, and the poor wear short brown (coarse cloth) shorts. Women in the Han dynasty wore two-piece dresses and robes, and there were many styles of skirts, the most famous of which was the fairy skirt.