In fact, the color of the dress in the TV series is right, not because the director is careless, but because the wedding dress in the Song Dynasty is "red with green". In ancient China, the color of wedding dresses changed for more than 2,000 years, and there were various colors, but the popular big red was only popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. If you are still confused about this, come with me into the world of the ancients and see how their wedding dresses have changed.
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Zhou dynasty: the color of Xuandi, with heaven and earth as the color.
People who worship heaven and earth, dress up weddings with mysterious wood, and are familiar with history should have found such a phenomenon: the farther away from us, the more they worship heaven and earth, and whenever the country encounters major events, they must worship heaven and earth. The most famous "Mount Tai meditation" is a way for ancient people to express their respect for heaven and earth. Because of their infinite respect for heaven and earth, they naturally extended this respect to all aspects of life, and the color of wedding clothes in Zhou Dynasty appropriately reflected this.
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Zhou people think that the sky is dark black, that is, noble black, and the ground is purplish red, that is, light red. Therefore, it is recorded in Yili Wedding. Shi believes that the wedding dress of Zhou Dynasty is "the color of heaven and earth", that is, the upper body is pure black and the lower body is reddish, with black as the main color and red as the supplement. This color expresses the highest respect for heaven and earth. When men and women get married, men wear bloomers and mysterious dresses, showing the indomitable spirit of men, while women wear pure dark black dresses, showing the dignified atmosphere of women.
Black and red highlight the solemnity of the wedding.
In many film and television works, the scene of the wedding of men and women in the Zhou Dynasty has been restored: in the wheat field with the Warring States period as the background, when the duke married the beautiful Li, he wore a pure black dress with only a little red embellishment.
In The Legend of Mi Yue, when Princess Chu got married, the whole wedding dress was mainly black with red as the foil, which perfectly showed the mother instrument of the queen. But one thing is different from TV series, that is, although Zhou people's dresses are elegant and sacred, their weddings are not lively. In the Book of Songs, it is recorded that men and women get married without beating gongs and drums, paying attention to ostentation and extravagance, and everything is very low-key. Usually two people drink a glass of wine together, and the wedding is finished.
Another advantage of the black wooden dress is that people often say "black is versatile" today. Black-based black wedding dress can set off red well, and "black is white" can effectively cover up the skin color problem and make people look radiant. Black can also cover up people's age embarrassment, and how to wear it looks youthful. "Low-key luxury has connotation."
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Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties: pure white and flawless, and the fairy spirit is fluttering.
Xuan Di color has been a popular wedding color since the Zhou Dynasty, and it has been circulated for nearly a thousand years. In Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, people thought it was too old-fashioned, and it was time to change. However, people in Wei and Jin Dynasties seemed to have the vision of "travelers". They designed their wedding dresses to be pure white, which is similar to today's wedding dresses.
The ancient book "Old Things in the East Palace" in the Wei and Jin Dynasties wrote: "The prince takes a concubine and wears a white gauze and silk shirt." Two people who are going to get married are wearing white wedding dresses, as if they were two immortals. If there is a cloud under their feet, they can really cultivate immortality.
White is nothing to people today, but it was a taboo in ancient times, when people attached great importance to weddings and funerals. Since ancient times, people in Wei and Jin Dynasties have been married in their own white wedding clothes. Are they cursing themselves?
Wei and Jin demeanor
That was not the case. There were times in ancient times, and each time had its own characteristics. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sima's autocratic power killed many literati. When people see that the world is getting worse, a wind of metaphysics rises. Its guiding ideology is Laozi's "quietism", pursuing innocence and nature, and white can be used to reflect the purity in their hearts, so white wedding dresses came into being.
Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties: Red with green, a century-old fashion color.
Prosperous culture and open wedding dress color changed from pure white popular in Wei and Jin Dynasties in Sui and Tang Dynasties to bold red and green color matching, which lasted until Song Dynasty. When getting married, the man wears a scarlet robe and the woman wears a turquoise robe. Is this the green wedding dress that Sheng wore when getting married in Know? The reason why men wear scarlet robes is because the imperial examination system was born in Sui and Tang Dynasties. Men who have won the imperial examination generally wear red robes to ride horses and parade and enjoy the worship of everyone. Wearing red robes when getting married is also to show men's status, while women wear turquoise because green symbolizes spring, which is a good day to get married when spring returns to the earth.
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The splendor of costumes in Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties was related to the developed culture at that time. Although the Sui Dynasty was only 38 years old, its ruler Yang Di was not as frivolous and cruel as described in history books. The Sui Dynasty under his management was rich and powerful, and all countries came to Korea. Foreigners envy China people's exquisite jewelry and clothes, which they have never seen before. The culture in the Tang and Song Dynasties was more developed, and people dressed in strange clothes were the epitome of the highly developed social culture at that time.
At that time, women were particularly open-minded. They usually like to wear bright colors, such as lotus root starch, pomegranate red and grass green. In order to show their status, men always wear scarlet, and they usually wear such jewels to make the wedding more elegant. It is recorded in the Book of the New Tang Dynasty that when a wedding was held in the Tang Dynasty, men wore red gauze robes, women wore turquoise flowered dresses, and the belts of shoes and socks were turquoise. They looked beautiful with gold, silver, colored glasses and flowers on their heads.
Tang dynasty wedding
The unpredictable color matching of cyan, red and green has always been the "mainstream color" of wedding dresses in Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties. Among them, red is basically unchanged, only light red and deep red, while turquoise is changeable, and has experienced changes from green to blue and then to turquoise. "A green lady, carefree in my heart", the former is the color of men's collars, and the cyan in the pre-Qin period is green, which is a symbol of characters. Later, people thought that cyan represented the return of spring to the earth and the revival of everything, so the wedding should be held when everything was green, but at that time, dyeing technology was limited and people could not produce the turquoise they wanted.
Cyan has never appeared on wedding dresses, mainly because its primary colors are complex and changeable. Cyan is often mixed with other colors, such as cyan and yellow. The idiom "green and yellow don't meet" is the combination of these two colors. There was no such word as "green and green" before. The "cyan" we are talking about today is the green before Sui and Tang Dynasties. Cyan and blue are also closely related, and cyan and blue are separated.
Folk in song dynasty
In order to smelt bronze, the ancients needed azurite and malachite, one is blue and the other is green. If the raw material ratio of the two is not properly controlled, a color between blue and green will appear. People think this color is mysterious, so it is called "cyan". At first, cyan is very unstable, mostly dark blue, and sometimes it may be dark green.
With the development of clothing dyeing technology in Sui and Tang Dynasties, turquoise began to appear in people's field of vision. These commendatory words with cyan as the color also make people feel that cyan is a valuable color, so everyone wears Tsing Yi, which is too weak for the wedding, and the colorful turquoise wedding dress is officially born. After such a long time of development, the turquoise wedding dress certainly exists as a "kryptonite boss" in the wedding ceremony, which is more amazing than a man's red robe and can also set off a woman's beauty and grace.
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Ming dynasty: bright red wedding dress
From "Royal Red" to "National Red", Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Taizu, was a "overbearing president". He thought that he was born in poverty and could enjoy the success by his own efforts. So the Hongwu dynasty abolished the prime minister system that lasted for thousands of years. Although it is a little hard for the emperor to handle all government affairs by himself, he can manage his own affairs and firmly hold the state power in his own hands from now on.
As a tool to distinguish between civilians and rulers, the clothing system should of course be monopolized. Zhu Yuanzhang clearly stipulated that from now on, civilians should not wear yellow, and scholars can wear nine-product dresses when they get married, but the colors should not be too bright. Folk women can only wear purple, green and pink wedding dresses when they get married, and they are not allowed to wear red or inlaid with gold embroidery, so as not to confuse the pecking order.
In the early Ming dynasty, only members of the royal family could wear big red when they got married. They wore long red dresses with big red sleeves outside and red lapels inside, red headscarves on their heads and Hong Xiuxie on their feet. They are all flushed. At that time, people saw the royal family get married in such a gorgeous way. Bright red, like a bonfire, exudes a fiery atmosphere, which is more advanced than the turquoise wedding dress in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. But the emperor forbade the people to wear red wedding clothes, and they could only drool.
Ming dynasty wedding
By the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were restrictions on wedding dresses, and the emperor was not in the mood to care about the color of clothes worn by civilians when they got married, so the big red wedding dress began to be popular among the people aboveboard, not only at weddings, but also in ordinary life, and red gradually became the popular color of the whole society. Compared with the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the wedding dress in Ming Dynasty underwent a "great reversal", from "male and female" to "male and female". When men get married, they wear blue-green top clothes, while women wear red headscarves, red dresses, red lapels, red pants and Hong Xiuxie.
China Red began in the Ming Dynasty, and ancient women in China liked red from a long time ago. Women in the Tang Dynasty like to wear red skirts and colorful pomegranate skirts, which once led the fashion trend. Red itself has the function of beautifying the figure and attracting people's attention. No woman can resist the temptation of a red dress, but it is their dream to let them wear a red dress and get married smartly, so it is simple. In the Ming dynasty, it gradually turned into an inseparable feeling for red, which also affected the men who entered the marriage hall with it. In order to adapt to his wife's preferences, in the Qing Dynasty, men's wedding dresses also became big red.
Today, the red wedding dress is the theme of Chinese weddings, which was born together with the big red dress, as well as red firecrackers, red lanterns, red couplets and red apples. Since red became the main color of wedding dresses in the Ming Dynasty, it has become the most popular color and has gradually become the most recognized color in China. The contact between Big Red and "China Red" indicates that the festive significance of red has been transformed into China culture.
There is no substitute for China Red.
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From the mysterious color of the Zhou Dynasty to the pure white color of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, from the scarlet color of the Tang Dynasty to the unpredictable turquoise color, and then to the scarlet color of the Ming Dynasty, the wedding clothes of each dynasty are unique, with a unique aesthetic feeling, reflecting the development of religion, culture and politics in different times, which is the best testimony of the different aesthetic tastes of the ancestors in previous dynasties, whether it is majestic mysterious color or pure white color.