Folk taboos that you must know What are the taboos of clothing in ancient times?

Don't dress casually. It is generally believed that the dress should not be casually dressed, especially the abnormal wearing, such as reverse dressing, reverse hanging crown, etc. In the old days, it was customary to wear hats after death, so it was bad luck to wear hats in reverse.

Clothes should not be transparent. In the Qing Dynasty, on certain solemn occasions, clothes made of bright gauze could not be worn. In feudal society, women are still jealous of heavenly feet, and they are also afraid of women with loose foot belts, saying that such women will be guilty of wine.

For example, it is very taboo to wear a reverse shirt, and it is also a very unlucky symbol, and it is not possible to wear a hat backwards, otherwise you will be punished. And you can't wear other people's clothes, and clothes are also close-fitting things, so there is also such a custom.

In ancient times, in addition to the prohibition of wearing white clothes and hats during funerals, it is very taboo to throw shoes or step on other people's shoes in daily life, and the front and back of the clothes are also very important.

The ancients paid great attention to dressing, and a person's identity, status and personality traits can be seen from the clothing. In terms of dressing, it is very taboo to wear clothes and hats. There is a saying in Qinyang, Henan Province that "wear Luo skirts and marry men again", that is to say, widows only wear Luo skirts when they remarry, and if women wear Luo skirts in daily life, it is inauspicious.

In addition to this reason, there is also the custom of dressing backwards after the death of a loved one. In many places in our country, when wearing a shroud for the deceased, it is not directly worn on the deceased, but let the filial son or relatives wear the reverse layer by layer of the tomb, and then peel it off and wear it on the deceased at one time. Therefore, it is also taboo for people to wear clothes backwards in daily life.

If you wear it backwards, it means that you are cursing your loved ones to die.

In addition, in ancient times, some places wore hats for people after they died, and Xiong Bolong's "Wu He Ji" of the Qing Dynasty said: "Do not hang the crown, but wear it like a dead man." That is to say, it is taboo to wear hats backwards, and the reason for this is that it is similar to the way the dead are dressed, which is a kind of cruelty to the living.

Don't wear clothes that others are wearing

Everyone has their own clothes, so the ancients believed that the clothes were the same as the person, or that the clothes would have their own soul attached to them. Under the influence of this ideology, the ancients were very taboo to wear clothes worn by others, and if they wore clothes worn by others, their souls would be affected and become unproductive. This taboo exists in the customs of many ethnic groups, and the Tibetans in Qinghai are especially taboo about it.

Don't dress out of season

In the north of our country, folk customs taboo dress out of season. Due to the obvious characteristics of spring, summer, autumn and winter in the north, the seasonality is relatively strong, so the seasonality of people's clothes is also relatively strong, and they will be replaced in the order of single, clip, cotton and leather. But if you wear clothes out of season, such as wearing a padded jacket in June, then there is a possibility that you are sick, and there is another possibility that the family is in decline and the economy is tight, no matter which one is not a good phenomenon in people's eyes, so dressing out of season has become a taboo.

Do not wear clothes that have just been dried

Do not wear freshly dried clothes directly, which is a taboo in the southern coastal area. In the past, people in the southern coastal area used bamboo poles to dry their clothes, and they looked like a bamboo pole man wearing clothes. If you take off the clothes that are dried in this way and wear them directly on yourself, you may be disturbed by the soul of the bamboo pole man and become a "bamboo pole ghost".

Therefore, after the clothes are dried, the clothes are taken away, and then folded and put for a period of time can play a role in dissolving, and there will be no bad luck.

In film and television programs, the former emperors are often asked to wear bright yellow dragon robes, but in fact, this is the wrong dress. From the Zhou to the Ming Dynasty, the emperor's formal attire was a black crown dress, although the crown dress from the Qin to the early Western Han Dynasty was all black without coats of arms, and later dynasties liked to change the arrangement of the twelve coats of arms to show that they respected the Zhou rites more than the previous dynasty, but it was generally unchanged

The general route of following the weekly rites is also unchanged. The Qin Dynasty was the water virtue, the Han Dynasty was the fire virtue, the Tang Dynasty was the earth virtue, and the Song Dynasty was the fire virtue. The water is still black, the fire is still red, and the earth is still yellow, but the red of the fire is not the popular Chinese red now, but the dark red that is blackened, and the yellow of the earth is not bright yellow, but the vermilion with a little red and a little dark.

The emperors of the Tang Dynasty still wore the crown dress with twelve coats of arms on a black background as the formal clothing for the court and sacrifices, but they also wore vermilion regular clothes.

In the early Tang Dynasty, ordinary Chen Ming could still wear bright yellow clothes, but he could not wear vermilion, but later, because bright yellow and vermilion were too easy to confuse, all yellow clothes were banned. The sound of "Ming" is connected with "Ming", and the bright yellow crown is usually used as a Ming vessel (Ming vessel), that is, the emperor's shroud.

The Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty were both fire virtues, especially the Ming Dynasty emperor's surname Zhu, both of which were precious to red, and the emperor's regular clothes were mostly red, and there was also yellow in daily life, but it was not the kind of bright yellow that would shine. The bright yellow clothes in the extant portraits of Ming emperors are because most of those portraits are posthumous portraits. And the yellow and clear gold crown made of pure gold is a funeral item that can only be found in the emperor's tomb.

The only emperor of the Qing Dynasty was the emperor of the Qing Dynasty who wore bright yellow clothes that were originally used only by the dead. Traditional opera art has undergone some mutations because it has experienced the costume culture fault of the Qing Dynasty, and modern film and television dramas are just shrouds full of screens.

The red of Huode is not the popular Chinese red now, but the dark red that is blackened, and the yellow of Tude is not bright yellow, but a little red and a little dark vermilion.

Taboo, in the Xia, Shang and Zhou periods, black was honored, and only the king could wear it. The dragon robes of the emperors before the Han Dynasty were all black, and the dragon robes after that were yellow.

"If you are not afraid of night owls barking, you are afraid of night owls laughing" and other common sayings, often regard owls as "ominous birds", called soul-chasing birds, mourning birds, etc.

It's just that you can't wear vermilion, but later, because bright yellow and vermilion are too easy to confuse, all yellow clothes are banned.

The red of Huode is not the popular Chinese red now, but the dark red that is blackened, and the yellow of Tude is not bright yellow, but a little red and a little dark vermilion. Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

The dragon robes of the emperors before the Han Dynasty were all black, and the dragon robes after that were yellow.

Different dynasties have different styles.