What's the difference between clothes, shirts and dresses?

People often say that "three points of appearance, seven points of clothing", "people rely on the saddle in the clothes." This is not so simple in ancient times, it has deep knowledge and strict requirements. In ancient times, clothes, shirts and dresses were very different. You didn't wear them as you wanted. For example, there are strict grade differences in the color of clothes, and the size of officials is linked to the color of clothes. Don't think that you can dress casually because you are a local tyrant, or you will be unlucky. In ancient times, dressing was not a trivial matter, far from being as simple as "dressing a horse and leaning on a saddle". Now, we call clothes clothes. In ancient times, there were some differences between clothes, shirts and dresses. Clothes can be divided into tops and deep clothes. The clothes are connected and the quilt is deep. In ancient times, clothes were worn close to the body, just like our underwear now. The ancient "T-shirt" refers to a sleeveless T-shirt made of thin gauze. It only uses a single layer, without lining, and its shape is simple. Wear it in summer. This is somewhat similar to the shirts we are wearing today. The original meaning of "petticoat" refers to skirt, and the extended meaning refers to underwear worn by men and women. It is made of two pieces of cloth, one in front and the other in back, with gaps on the left and right. Its main purpose is to block the parts that should not be seen. It can be seen that our ancients were very particular about clothes. With the continuous development and progress of the spirit and material of feudal society, people's clothing has also been widely used in officialdom. For example, it is a great progress to distinguish the ranks of official positions by clothing. You can know the size of the immortal by looking at the color from a distance. The wisdom of the ancients is always so infinite and magical. When did this start? The Tang Dynasty injected color into the color of the official clothes like playing with the three colors of the Tang Dynasty. The official clothing system in Tang Dynasty is: three or more items, purple robe and goldfish bag; Below three items, above five items, robes, whitebait bags; Under the six products, green robe, no fish bag. If an official has a high position and a low rank, he will still dress according to the original product. For example, if you are a prime minister, you can't get the third grade, and you must bring the words "Give Zijin Fish Bag" in your official title; There is no limit to the level of local state secretariat, and they all wear robes. The Song Dynasty advocated literary records, and the official service system basically continued until the Tang Dynasty, but the literati played more carefully and always stipulated that it was not in the official service series. The biggest difference is that the immortal wears a hoe and has long straight feet on both sides of his head, which is said to prevent the literati from whispering in private. The Yuan Dynasty was the era when Mongols entered the customs to rule the Central Plains. Their costumes were made in the Han Dynasty, such as those of ancient emperors and senior officials in the pre-Qin period. At the same time, Mongolian rulers also carried out their own systems. For example, when people are in Dai Li, they still put their hair in a vertebral bun and wear hats in summer and winter. When the Yuan Dynasty was first established, it also ordered the Jinshi in Beijing to shave into Mongolian costumes. Mongolians wear hats, and men wear earrings. After the Dade period of the Yuan Dynasty, the clothes of scholars between Mongolia and Han were whatever they wanted to wear. In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor's crown clothes, civil and military official clothes, and inner-government obedience included sacrificial clothes, court clothes, public clothes, and regular clothes, with complicated styles, grades, and dress etiquette. Generally, men's wear is mainly robes with various forms; Confucian scholars and scribes take shirts and straightness as their uniforms; Women's wear mainly includes gowns, jackets, summer curtains, quilts and skirts. The official clothes of the Ming Dynasty were directly added with the identification symbol of the official title-Buzi, which was embroidered with birds and beasts. Civil servants are flying birds with wings, from cranes to quails; Military attaché s are beasts, and they can run on all fours. One, two are lions, nine are seahorses, and there are male, Hou and Xu embroidered unicorns. The distinctive feature of official uniforms in Qing dynasty is to look directly at the beads on the top of official hats, and those with high status are dragging flowers and feathers behind their heads. This is called "wearing a flower feather on your head", and your identity and status can be known at a glance. There are many kinds of ceremonial crowns on official clothes, such as Chao Guan, Ji Guan, Chang Guan, Guan Xing and Guan Yu. Clothing was developed to the extreme by the ancients, and there were many rules for wearing it. It's not that if you have money now, you can be willful, but that local tyrants can "rely on clothes to make their horses saddle." Different identities wear different clothes. If you overstep and exceed the rules, you will be severely punished and lose your head. For example, in the Song Dynasty, only ordinary people were allowed to wear white clothes, while in the Ming Dynasty, ordinary people had to avoid black, purple, green, willow yellow, turmeric and bright yellow, which were the patents of officials and emperors. (Text/Cai Yi reading historical map/from the Internet)