There is a Chinese saying that "wearing a dragon robe is not like a prince", that is to say, even if you dress up no matter how noble, the connotation is not good, everyone is very strange that the prince should not be a "python robe", why does the dragon robe correspond to the prince? Because in ancient times, you could not casually take the emperor, which committed the crime of great disrespect and wanted to be beheaded.
"Dragon robe" is not something that ordinary people can wear, it is the emperor's private property, it is the imperial dress of the ancient Chinese emperor, and the special costume of the Son of Heaven is embroidered with a dragon medal pattern, if anyone dares to hide the dragon robe privately, it will not survive the great sin of destroying the nine ethnic groups.
What if the "dragon robe" has not been washed for more than ten years
In that ancient times, when there was no air conditioning in the summer and no heating in the winter, the dragon robe on the emperor's body was worn for more than ten years without washing, can you imagine? Winter is good because people's sweat flows less, in the summer when the weather is hot, rely on the palace maid or eunuch to hold a fan next to the fan Emperor is also a person will sweat, wearing a dragon robe inevitably have sweat rubbed on the dragon robe, and some emperors themselves have fox odor, how to wear the dragon robe for a long time to produce odor?
This does not have to worry at all, the emperor's clothes have special people to take care of, the palace has a "four library" this department is dedicated to the emperor and the six masters of the east and west of the clothing, the emperor's dragon robe is the imperial dress, that is to say, the important festival or the time of the dynasty is wearing the dragon robe, the early dynasty, the emperor will change into work clothes or civilian clothes, if the dragon robe is stained with sweat, the moment the palace maid will take off the flower room incense, to ensure that the dragon robe is incense every day.
As for the dust on the top every day there will be special people to take care of and wipe, the dragon robe is embroidered with gold thread and silk embroidered clothes and embroidered with pearls, in ancient times there was no laundry detergent, there was no washing powder, the use of soap horn powder to wash clothes The palace women are holding wooden sticks and constantly beating, this way of washing clothes as long as the dragon robe is destroyed by the dragon robe, not to mention that the dragon robe is the symbol of the emperor, which is not equivalent to beating the emperor? As early as the Song Dynasty, the derivative opera "Fighting the Dragon Robe", how can the emperor's golden body be punished at will, the dragon robe is the emperor to be beaten instead of the dragon robe, so who dares to wave the stick in his hand at the emperor's dragon robe.
Moreover, since they are all emperors, the dragon robe must be more than one piece, this piece of dislike can be replaced by the next one or another piece can be done, anyway, the best embroidery ladies in the country are in the hands of the emperor, and the dragon robe is only worn in the morning morning, probably from five o'clock in the morning to seven o'clock in the morning, the dragon robe will basically be changed down to eat breakfast to start the day's activities, as for the harem concubines, there is no summons generally seen at night.
"The harem must not interfere in politics" This is a taboo of all dynasties, then in addition to major festivals can see the emperor wearing a dragon robe, the concubines basically can not see the emperor wearing the dragon robe, when they go to the bedchamber, they can only see the emperor who is slippery, and even if there is really a taste of the concubine dare to say, surely do not dare, otherwise the emperor must be angry, who can bear the wrath of the son of heaven, is it not a trick to die?
The production and origin of the dragon robe
Ancient China belongs to the agricultural civilization, the people are all tea farming, which is very demanding on the weather changes, then the "dragon" in the zodiac has become a god who can call the wind and rain, and is worshiped by people, and the ancient Tianzi prides himself on being the son of heaven, the true dragon Tianzi, who can symbolize the identity, must be the "dragon robe".
"Dragon robe" is the emperor to participate in major festivals and the imperial dress worn, the emperor's dragon robe is embroidered with nine golden dragons, one on the chest, one on the back, one on the left and one on the right shoulder, two on the front knee and two at the back thigh, the last one is shown in the placket, the emperor is basically surrounded by these nine golden dragons, why nine? It is because these emperors believe in the "Nine-Five-Year Dignity" influenced by "Zhou Yi", in addition to the dragon robe in that boxy palace wall is also mostly "nine" and "five" these numbers, sure enough, about the "Son of Heaven", first have to believe in themselves to control the common people, but there are exceptions, the Ming Dynasty Wanli Emperor probably likes the feeling of the dragon cluster, his dragon robe is embroidered with twelve dragons, wrapped all over the body.
As for the color of the dragon robe, it depends on which color the emperor of this dynasty is surnamed Hua, the Emperor of the Qin Dynasty likes black, the Han Dynasty likes the Xuan color, most of the Song Dynasty is red, the real use of yellow is the Sui Wen Emperor, after most of the dynasties have followed the bright yellow, appearing noble and symbolic of the central slowly passed down, from our nearest Qing Dynasty that the dragon robe is the main color of a water yellow.
About the production of dragon robes is quite complicated, ordinary people to make a dress to a week or two, not to mention the imperial costumes, the emperor's dragon robes are mostly embroidered, most of the best silk fabrics in the country are produced in Suzhou and Hangzhou, since ancient times are "there is heaven under Suzhou and Hangzhou" Suhang's silk fabrics are to pay tribute to the palace,
The weaving layout of the palace needs to make a dragon robe for the emperor to get the instructions above, the first thing is to design the drawings, this is the most important job, there is no drawing left is really nothing, and every few inches of drawings must be changed, the production process is cumbersome is what you can't imagine, the silk thread has to be dyed red and yellow, the tools can be used normally, but the people who work must be several times, the emperor needs a row of noodles, and it is more difficult to wear pearls and other items on the clothes.
Embroidery embroidery ladies are the country's top talents, embroidery that has to be quite good, but once the wrong head also do not want, TV series often insert what to send clothes to the emperor a needle hidden inside, not to mention that this can not happen, there is such a thing that the whole weaving workshop can not live, it can be seen that the emperor to make clothes to pay special attention to.
A dragon robe takes more than two years to take shape, and the combined cost is about a few thousand thousand taels of silver, and this dragon robe is handed over to the emperor after it is done, and the emperor has no problem wearing it before it is over.
Was it really good to be an emperor in ancient times?
The dragon robe is the exclusive property of the emperor, for this piece of clothing, which has not been fought for by all the dynasties and dynasties, but all the peasant uprisings in the history of "one ascending nine five, six family affection" have failed, why do you say so? Because after such a peasant uprising, they changed from exploited to exploiters, those class contradictions in ancient times were the mainstream of society, it was inevitable in feudal society, when the emperor was really good, surely some people would say how good, the harem beauty three thousand, big fish and big meat to eat a good, but these extravagant emperors who had a good end, China from the beginning of xia after 14 dynasties, the bloodshed of the war brought countless disasters to the people.
The first "dragon robe" was added to the Later Han general Guo Wei, yellow represented the royal family, Guo Wei was wearing yellow curtains at that time, Guo Wei could not ascend the throne, and then Chen Qiao mutinied Zhao Kuangyin's turn, then the reigning emperor at that time was either deposed or killed without exception.
If the emperor is not catching up with the holiday basically every day as work at any time to punch the clock, every word and deed must be recorded in the "Living Record", 5-7 o'clock in the morning to start the dynasty, the next morning to change clothes have to go to the old empress to ask for peace, please go to the ancestral ancestral hall after an annunciation to read the ancestral precepts, the ancestral training can only be used for breakfast after reading, in the Qing Dynasty There is also a rule of eating "eating but not three" means that what meals can not exceed three, this is to not let others know the emperor's preferences, Otherwise, if someone throws in their favor, they will corrupt the program.
During the song dynasty, Emperor Huizong of Song, who knew that Emperor Huizong of Song liked to bow and had trained his skills, was favored by Emperor Huizong of Song, and during his tenure he disintegrated the entire forbidden army in Kaifeng, resulting in the capture of Emperor Huizong and Emperor Qinzong of the later "Shame of Jingkang", and these two emperors were really miserable that they could not keep the throne and became prisoners under the ranks and still performed the "sheep-leading ceremony" in the Jin Kingdom.
This is the emperor was captured, killed is innumerable, a Wei and Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties, a five dynasties and ten kingdoms This is the most chaotic two periods in ancient history, the regime is constantly changing, the emperor is killed, deposed is a common thing, some historians commented on the situation at that time that if an emperor can die in a hospital bed at that time is really the accumulation of virtue in the previous life, the five generations period, the establishment of the regime before the emperor must be killed, Zhu Wen killed Tang Zhaozong and then killed Tang Aizong, and then he was killed by his own son, Then Li Cunxun killed the Zhu family to ascend to the throne, and the Li family was finally killed by Shi Jingyao, and the appearance of these killings could not help but make people sigh that being the emperor was really a fatal job, and how much to pay in order to keep this position at the moment of putting on the dragon robe and sitting on the throne.
During the war and chaos, those emperors of the Taiping Dynasty were also very hard, Yongzheng was famous for his workaholic, the harem had not been once in ten days and half a month, and there were not many heirs on his knees, and all the family property earned was tossed away by his son", "Six Lower Jiangnan", and when Ming Xiaozong was in power, he also worked hard to achieve a good example of "monogamy", and as a result, he was also defeated by his son Zhengde, the son of the "Great General of the Town state", and under the suppression of the orthodoxy of the feudal system, you are rebelling, and usurping the throne is not justified. How many people just want the "dragon robe".
epilogue
If now whoever has a dragon robe has to be handed over to the national treasury, some of the boys who take art photos also specially wear "imperial clothes" to show off, I don't know if you really let you go to be the emperor, whether you can bear it, being in a high position really becomes a lonely person, every meal is first tested by the eunuch, wearing clothes must be according to the rules, even a joke can not be expressed, otherwise how to call "Jun Wu Joke" Even in ancient times his own marriage can not be the master, those game harem faint lords are happy for a few years are all killed fate, At the moment of the fall of the country, did they ever think about the first time they sat on a dragon chair in a dragon robe decades ago?