The ancients made great efforts in dressing to make their summers cooler. What we are going to talk about today is one of the popular summer clothing of the ancients.
Bamboo clothing
Since ancient times, bamboo products have been a good product for Chinese people to enjoy the coolness in summer, such as bamboo mats, bamboo pillows , etc. that are common in our daily lives.
Bamboo clothing, commonly known as "sweat-proof clothing", is made of bamboo tube beads. It is an important functional clothing for cooling and dispelling heat during the Ming and Qing Dynasties in China. Because it separates the body and clothing, it increases air flow, achieves breathability and sweat isolation.
The existing bamboo clothes in my country are all round-necked and double-breasted, and are divided into long-sleeved mandarin jackets and sleeveless vests.
Long-sleeved mandarin jacket
Bamboo jacket
Bamboo jacket is made of thin bamboo tubes. It is worn between the undershirt and the python robe. It can provide ventilation and antipyretic effect, but more importantly, it can prevent sweat from leaking out. Prevent the precious silk satin robe worn as the outermost layer from fading and deforming due to sweat.
When did bamboo clothing appear and when did it rise?
Bamboo clothing has a long history. As early as the Tang Dynasty , "bamboo cloth" made of bamboo appeared in my country. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Nanjing Confucius Temple Gongyuan was the country's largest imperial examination examination room. In August, when the weather is hot, and the examination room is cramped, candidates often die of heat stroke. In order to relieve the suffering of the heat, a specially made heat-dissipating and cooling clothing - bamboo clothing.
By the mid-to-late Qing Dynasty, bamboo clothing became widely popular and was used as a tribute for the royal family to enjoy.
However, although the raw materials for bamboo clothing are not expensive, they were not affordable for ordinary people in ancient times. Because the production of bamboo clothes can be said to be "a big project".
Bamboo clothing is made of single-branch bamboo that is only produced in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places. They grow on rocky mountains at an altitude of about 300-800 meters. It takes tens of thousands of single branches of bamboo to make a piece of bamboo clothing. Not only that, when making bamboo clothes, craftsmen need to polish tens of thousands of single bamboo branches into the same size and thickness, and thread them together one after another. Make holes in tens of thousands of bamboo tubes and connect them with wires. After the materials for making bamboo clothes are collected, the leaves are removed and left to dry naturally. In order to adapt to the soft and undulating characteristics of the human body surface, and to facilitate the stretching needs of larger daily movements, the difficulty can be imagined.
