This is the robe dress (data photo) exhibited at Jingdian Pavilion of the Imperial Palace in Shenyang. Xinhua News Agency (Photo provided by Shenyang Palace Museum)
Xinhua News Agency, Shenyang, November 16th Title: Gangfu: Let's show you what the emperor's special dress looks like?
Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhao Hongnan
Jingdian Pavilion of the Imperial Palace in Shenyang is exhibiting the special ceremonial clothing for emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties - robe clothes. Take the audience to see what the special ceremonial clothing for emperors looks like?
The Qing stone blue dark ball dragon yarn flat gold embroidered gold dragon pattern robe garland on display is a round collar, double-breasted, flat sleeves, straight body style, left and back, with five bronze gilded engraved buckles on the collar; the stone blue yarn garland is decorated with round dragon pattern dark flowers, and the shoulders and front and back chests are decorated with flat gold threads in the front and back chests, and the four golden dragons on the front and back sides are embroidered with four golden claws on the front and front lines, and the surroundings are wrapped with branch patterns to represent the continuous continuous Qing Dynasty. The two shoulders of the golden dragon each have two chapters of the sun and moon, and the front and back collars are decorated with round longevity patterns. The dragon is under the dragon's body is full of sea water and eight treasures. The ball dragon is decorated with pearls, the beads are even and the beads are fine.
The robe with a strong sense of decoration and exquisite craftsmanship reflects the superb and exquisiteness of weaving and embroidery and decoration craftsmanship in the Qing Dynasty.
Li Shengneng, director of the Shenyang Palace Museum, said that robe clothes had a long history of use in ancient times and were one of the traditional Chinese clothing. After thousands of years of evolution and inheritance, they eventually became a ritual clothing exclusively for emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Li Shengneng said that before Qing entered the pass, the clothes worn were basically tight narrow-sleeved robes and jackets suitable for outdoor riding and shooting and fighting. After the founding of the Later Jin Dynasty and entering the Liaodong region, Nurhaci and Huang Taiji maintained their national customs and characteristics while also absorbing and drawing on many clothes and clothing styles from the Ming Dynasty and even earlier. After entering the pass, in order to meet the needs of the ruling situation at that time, while revising the existing crown and uniform system, traditional patterns and patterns were further added, and many regulations were promulgated, so that the Qing palace clothes and crowns were integrated into a large amount of traditional cultural content while retaining the Manchu style.
There are many types of clothing in the Qing Palace and the system is detailed. According to the rules of the system, the clothing of emperors of the Qing Dynasty can be divided into seven categories: dresses, auspicious clothes, regular clothes, travel clothes, rain clothes, military clothes and casual clothes, among which the grade and specifications of the dresses are the highest. Customized in the "Qing Hui Dian" of Qianlong Dynasty: The emperor's robe "colored with stone green, embroidered with five claws on the front and four balls of golden dragons, one ball in front and back of the shoulders, and the left sun and the right moon."
Li Shengneng said that before the Qianlong Dynasty, the robes of each dynasty did not use seal colors, but only four groups of Yunlong, and some decorations were decorated with seal characters "Shou" in the seal script; and after the customization of the Qianlong period, the robes were mostly sun and moon chapters, with four and twelve chapters; after the Jiadao, the emperor's robes were basically customized in the Qianlong Dynasty.
The robe clothes in the Qing Dynasty were dressed in a jacket style that was worn outside of auspicious or court clothes, so they had the dual functions of auspicious and dresses. Li Shengneng said, "Although there are no detailed historical records now that the emperor wore this robe was worn by the emperor, through relevant historical records, we speculate that it should be a clothing specially worn by the emperors of the middle and late Qing dynasties."
This is the robe dress exhibited in Jingdian Pavilion of the Imperial Palace in Shenyang (data photo). Xinhua News Agency (Photo provided by Shenyang Palace Museum)
Source: Xinhua News Agency
