China has been a country of etiquette since ancient times, and every word and deed contains a profound etiquette foundation. Take the Chinese New Year as an example. This is the most celebrated moment of the year, especially for the emperor.
As the king of a country, the emperor should not only preside over court meetings, banquets and various sacrificial activities, but also go to see operas and play lanterns with concubines and ministers in the harem. The day's trip is really busy. In order to hold these activities during the New Year, the emperors need to change a lot of clothes, and then they will announce them for you one by one.
The Crown Map of the Forbidden City in the Ming Dynasty was taken from the Crown Map of the Forbidden City by Yanshan Publishing House.
Fu Xuan Atlas of Ming Dynasty and Guan Yi Map of Ming Palace were extracted from Guan Yi Map of Ming Palace by Yanshan Publishing House.
What does the emperor wear in the New Year? Including casual clothes, auspicious clothes, sacrificial clothes and court clothes. One of the most important clothes is the one worn on the Zheng Yuanda Zhao Hui. The etiquette of court meetings can be traced back to the pre-Qin period. After Qin and Han Dynasties, there were many kinds of court meetings, including court meetings and regular court meetings. The Yuan Dynasty was the first year, so the "Zheng Yuanda Zhao Hui" held on this day had the highest status.
On New Year's Day, the emperor will wear the flag of 12 and the official uniform of 12 to be worshipped by officials. There is 12 headdress on it, and 12 badge is embroidered on high-grade clothes, which are sun, moon, star, mountain, dragon, insect, algae, fire, rice flour, spells and spells respectively. These decorations symbolize the virtues of the emperor. In the picture of emperors in the past dynasties by Yan, a painter in the Tang Dynasty, there appeared many emperors in splendid clothes. Although the expressions are different, the clothes are uniform.
2 network pictures of heraldry
The Sui Wendi Art Museum in Boston has a collection of royal dresses from Li Ben, Tang Yan.
In the Qing dynasty, the emperor's clothes changed a lot. In Qing Dynasty, costumes inherited the names of sacrificial costumes, official costumes, royal costumes and ordinary costumes, and were transformed according to the characteristics of Manchu costumes. For example, it is shaped into a robe and a jacket. Sacrificial clothing and royal clothing are collectively called dresses.
The azurite satin in Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty consists of four groups of captured rice beads, which are collected in the Palace Museum in Yu Yunlong.
Emperors in the Qing Dynasty wore auspicious clothes when attending various ceremonies and sacrifices, and put on ordinary clothes when fasting and dying. If the emperor needs to take part in many activities at the same time in the first month, he needs to change clothes frequently.
For example, on the eleventh day of the first month of the fourth year of Xianfeng, Emperor Xianfeng needed to go to the Temple of Heaven to pray at this time in the morning. He needs to wear a blue robe. After the sacrifice, he put on his robes and auspicious clothes and went to Guandi Temple to burn incense. Then, he came to Hongdetang to change his crown. Go to Zhongcui Palace to pay homage to the Queen and burn incense, and then return to the mourning hall practice room. According to this calculation, Emperor Xianfeng can only change the crown three or four times a day, and no one changes the frequency.
The Palace Museum Collects Huang Yun Qingming Shanghe Tu Jinlong Makeup Satin Silver Rat Skin Men's Dragon Robe
There are four groups of colorful clouds bats in the Palace Museum, including Shiqing satin embroidered rice, pearls, cotton and dragonflies in the Qing Dynasty.
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