Cloak, double-breasted coat with big sleeves. Unlike cloaks, cloaks are often worn outdoors, and cloaks can be worn indoors and outdoors. Cloak prevailed in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Judging from many portraits and notes, cloak was a popular costume in Ming Dynasty. It was mentioned in "Copying from the Cloud" at the end of Ming Dynasty. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, cloaks were still popular for some time because "men obeyed women".

Cloak also appears repeatedly in A Dream of Red Mansions. It is worth noting that there are both cloaks and cloaks in A Dream of Red Mansions, so there is a difference between them.

Wang Qi's "Three Sages Meeting" in the Ming Dynasty said: "The back is the cloak of today." In other words, the coat of Ming and Qing Dynasties is the back of Song Dynasty. The illustrations with "back" in "Three Stories" show a straight collar, a pair of lapels, two underarm slits and two long-sleeved robes. Its form is the same as that worn by Wang Xifeng in A Dream of Red Mansions by painter Gaiqi in the late Qing Dynasty. The image of Wang Xifeng painted by Gage is exactly when I met Grandma Liu in the sixth episode of A Dream of Red Mansions: "

Zhu Shunshui, a thinker in China in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties (that is, Zhu Zhiyu, a scholar and educator in the Ming and Qing Dynasties), stayed in Japan to give lectures for 22 years after the demise of the Ming Dynasty and became a great educator in the history of Japanese education. Being honored as "Japanese Confucius", peaches and plums are all over the world, and students are brilliant. 1682 He died in Japan at the age of eighty-two, leaving a lot of manuscripts. In the fifth year of Baoyong (A.D. 1708, the forty-seventh year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty), Zhu Shunshui student An Jijue edited and printed three volumes of "Zhu Shunshui Tan Qi". The cloak described in "The Wonder of Zhu Shunshui Poetry" is straight, with slits on both sides.

According to the records of the Three Kingdoms and Zhu Shunshui, the cloak of the Ming Dynasty is actually similar to that of the Song Dynasty, but different from it. This cloak has sleeves, a straight collar and a split.

Later, the cloak also appeared in the style of standing collar and double-breasted buttons, which was often seen in some portraits of the Qing Dynasty. There is a stand-up cloak in Notes on Customs in Qing Dynasty edited by Tadashi Nakagawa, a Japanese. Except for the collar, the other parts have not changed. Wang Qi's Three Talents Meeting: "Behind it is the cloak of today."

"Awakening the world, keeping a promise, Wu Guaner's appointment to go to a neighboring boat": "No, teach the servant girl to find a cloak to put on him."

"The Scholars Fourteenth Time": "The female guests on board changed clothes there, and one of them took off her Yuan coat and put on a paddy field cloak."

Cao Yu's "Wang Zhaojun Act III": "Hu slowly walked out of the brocade account and put on a cloak."