Chinese ruqun vs hanfu

ROGIT blackI hope you don’t mind me asking a question about Chinese clothing. I’m not Chinese but I freaking love watching Chinese films and C-Drama. One thing I’m very curios about is the Emperor’s hanfu during the Tang Dynasty. And should it always be in gold? And does the Emperor have a crown? Please keep up the great work, btw! Is there a specific name for that hanfu? I love reading your posts and I I love learning more about Chinese culture. Please have a great day ahead! Hi, hanfu inspired wedding dress thanks for the questions! The main garments of Chinese emperors (including those of the Tang Dynasty) were the Longpao/龙袍 (dragon robe) and the Mianfu/冕服. Longpao was the everyday dress of emperors (after the Sui Dynasty). Mianfu is what emperors wore on important occasions. During the Tang dynasty, yellow was considered the superior color for garments, and the court made it officialthat no one besides the emperor had the right to wearyellow. I made a post about Mianfu here. However, the emperor did not always have to wear yellow. He could also wear other colors such as black, red, and purple. Yes, Chinese emperors wore crowns called Mianguan/冕冠, to go with Mianfu. Finally, thank you so much for your encouraging words! I’m so glad that you love reading my posts and find them useful. You can read more about Mianguan in my post here. The ceremonial garments of the Emperor always remained Mianfu, the Robe and Crown Regalia. Hope you have a great day ahead as well! And not only was it the regalia for the Emperors, it was for all his nobles and officials as well, being divided into five grades. Officially, there’s six, but the Great Coat Robe/大衮冕 went out of use after the Tang Dynasty. It was not until the Ming Dynasty that the Emperors came up with an official yellow Dragon Robe. A Dragon Robe is considered festive clothing, and even then only for non-official occasions. It’s something the Emperor might wear in private or when hosting a banquet for his officials. How things turned out this way is actually a funny story. Despite being the color of the Earth and the central color in Chinese color theory, yellow was originally a very cheap and not well regarded color. It was easy to produce from a variety of common materials including gardenia berries and mandarin melon berries. As a result, it was a publicly accessible color that sold cheaply and was widely worn by the lower classes. In that case, how did such a cheap color make its way to the Imperial palace? Well, during the Sui Dynasty, China got a tightwad emperor. A good thing too, seeing as how he had to lead the nation out of the turbulence of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Emperor Wen of Sui (official name Yang Jian, childhood name Narayana) was a penny-pinching miser who insisted on the cheapest, simplest, and least labor intensive of anything. Since he lived simply, his clothes were made of the cheapest color on the market: yellow. In the succeeding Tang Dynasty, the earliest emperors led a nation recovering from the ravages of Emperor Yang of Sui (the son of the penny-pinching guy). As a result, they also lived frugally and carried on the tradition of yellow robes.

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