Ancient Chinese Women's Underwear Tips

In ancient times, underwear was called Chinese underwear. The history of Chinese underwear has a long history, and the earliest historical materials can be found in the Han Dynasty. Among them, women's underwear is also known as belly holding, heart clothes, crotch, breasts, belly pockets, etc. In different periods, the common dress of women in the Tang Dynasty is only a short moment in history. From ancient times to the present, underwear has always contained the secrets of women, which is absolutely unknown to outsiders. In ancient books, it is mentioned that women with exposed underwear are either happy women, or like Liangshan Sun Erniang. The ancients' mentality of underwear is hidden.

The main waist and belly pocket

The coat that a woman wears close to her body, that is, the upper pocket in the belly pocket, is named because it can't be easily shown. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, women's close-fitting clothes, "Lord" refers to the meaning of fasteners, usually worn by maids of honor, emphasizing embroidery decoration. It is a kind of "waist small garment", which is the predecessor of "belly pocket". It began in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. It is the title of underwear in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Structurally, it is characterized by tight front chest to prevent wind and cold, and is used to restrain and fix the chest. Also known as the pocket belly, it is common to take square or diamond-shaped clothes. There is a difference between plain color and embroidery. The left and right corners are equipped with ropes, tied to the back, and there are bags without bags.

In ancient China, underwear is not like the coats of previous dynasties. To some extent, it can be said that the coat is politics, while underwear is emotion. Ancient Chinese underwear is a perfect combination of love and art. It is a quiet word in women's private space. When every ancient woman sews her underwear, she pours thousands of feelings on it: asking for her son to embroider pomegranates, asking for money to embroider peonies, avoiding evil and beasts, embroidering flowers and grass when she misses her best... The ideals and personal desires of life dare not be reflected on the coat, but they can be fully described and displayed in the underwear.

As shown in the book Cloud Heart Clothes - Ancient Chinese Underwear Culture (published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House), the diversity and timing of ancient Chinese underwear culture are freer, wiser and more affectionate than other clothing. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, relying on underwear to show the external symbol of "joice in the room" and acting as an amazing maid of honor, it has begun to carry the sexual open trend of "... the rudeness of the boudoir is not different". With the shape and color of underwear to ** the body, it shows the openness of the Tang Dynasty underwear culture and the stunning humanistic spirit. Different light; the "science" restriction in the late Song Dynasty did not make the underwear culture dull, but "narrow, thin, long and strange" with the unique characteristics of the Central Plains, which laid the foundation for the future "belly pocket" culture; in the underwear culture of the Ming Dynasty, the "main waist" underwear of "non-embroidered clothes is not good" and "non-red wrapped clothes is not gorgeous" is more At that time, the life consumption concept of "guide luxury guide **" in the social fashion has become a powerful symbol of rebellion against asceticism. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, it was also a prosperous period of Chinese underwear. Whether it is active or passive, willing or reluctant, it is not only the inheritance of traditional underwear, but also the Western underwear culture. Accepted, the belly pocket art of "shaping and shaping the body" and "containing the spirit" has improved the new content of Chinese underwear. The scientific structure, the idealization of the decoration on the totem, the exquisiteness of the craft, and the diversification of materials make the belly pocket art reflect the value of society, body and life. The book spreads the history, culture and design art of ancient Chinese underwear since the Spring and Autumn Period, highlighting a romantic and secret image that is completely different from the rigorous clothing of ancient Chinese coats.

Before the Han Dynasty, women had no clothes until the Han Dynasty did they put on open crotch trousers. The Biography of Empress Shangguan in the Book of Han said, "Although the people in the palace are all poor trousers, there are more with them." The so-called "poor trousers" are open crotch trousers. The purpose of wearing crotch pants is to facilitate defecation, but it is logical not to wear underwear. This situation continued, at least until the Tang Dynasty, when Dora's family made kimonos in Tang costumes, it seemed that women wore kimonos and did not wear underwear.

Some people also say that kimono is a transformation of "Wufu", which comes from 800 children and men and women in the south of the Yangtze River. Women do not wear underwear, which retains the basic characteristics of the ancient Chinese "clothing". The only invention of Dora's family is the man's crotch cloth, which is still left in the huge buttocks of sumo wrestlers.

Underwear is a close-fitting thing and a boudoir worn inside. In ancient times, it was also called blasphemous (xiè) clothes. The original meaning of "blasphemy" is "fitting underwear", which contains not solemn ingredients. The resulting obsceneness (meaning **, obscene) is a common word to describe hooligan behavior nowadays. Because there are indecent elements here, the indispensable "Public Service" part of each dynasty in the Twenty-Four Histories does not mention the underwear styles and changes of the dynasty, the popular situation, etc. Now if you want to study the history of ancient underwear and clothing, you can only look for it from ancient notes. Of course, the most informative in this area is all kinds of erotic novels. Huang Qiang's "History of Chinese Clothing and Painting" has a special section on "Ming Dynasty underwear in erotic novels". Mr. Huang told me that a lot of them were deleted during publication. The editor meant that the content was "yellow-related". In fact, I don't think there is anything.

To put it bluntly, what can you wear close to the lower body? It's just briefs. However, the ancients were more elegant than modern people, and they were more able to speak than modern people. Just like calling the toilet "hand relief", the "beanbow pants" are also roundabouts, called "small clothes", "bottom clothes", "inside", or "luo skirt", "single skirt", " pleated skirt" and so on. What is closer to modern is "gauze pants". Today, let's talk about the secrets in these "small clothes" in the words of ancient erotic novels. In fact, it is not a secret. It is just to see what kind of underwear ancient women wear and understand the aesthetic consciousness of their era.

The previous article talked about "female underwear in ancient erotic novels". In fact, I didn't finish talking. It was only about the upper body of ancient women. I didn't say anything about the lower body. It's not a trick, but I felt something was wrong. When talking about the upper body, some netizens blame me for what I am studying. Isn't it more troublesome to say "the lower body"? I understand the meaning of what netizens said, that is, underwear is not elegant. Don't shake. In fact, many netizens think wrong about my blog post. For the integrity of the article, let's talk about the lower body.

Indeed, underwear is a close-fitting thing and a thing in the boudoir. In ancient times, it was also called blasphemy (xiè) clothes. The original meaning of "blasphemy" is "fitting underwear", which contains not solemn ingredients. The resulting obsceneness (meaning **, obscene) is a common word to describe hooligan behavior nowadays. Because there are indecent elements here, the indispensable "Public Service" part of each dynasty in the Twenty-Four Histories does not mention the underwear styles and changes of the dynasty, the popular situation, etc. Now if you want to study the history of ancient underwear and clothing, you can only look for it from ancient notes. Of course, the most informative in this area is all kinds of erotic novels. Huang Qiang's "History of Chinese Clothing and Painting" has a special section on "Ming Dynasty underwear in erotic novels". Mr. Huang told me that a lot of them were deleted during publication. The editor meant that the content was "yellow-related". In fact, I don't think there is anything.

Picture: The "small clothes" that modern women like are two concepts with the small clothes worn by ancient women. The ancient small clothes are actually underwear

Xiaoyi Xiaoyi has the most records in the erotic novels of the Ming Dynasty. Some people think that Xiaoyi is a general term, which refers to all underwear worn close to the body, including the clothes undercoat. Mr. Huang Qiang thinks that this statement is wrong. It should be trousers. The reason is to move out the description in the Ming and Qing Dynasty erotic novels.

Feng Menglong's "Three Words" of "The Warning" has an article "Kang Taishou's Broken Child". The article mentioned "Xiaoyi": Shao was moved by love. "So she didn't ask Aunt Xiu to follow. She lit it with a lamp and went straight to your bed. She saw her naked and lying on her back. The 'talks' were like a gun, and she couldn't help rippling and lustful. He took off his clothes and climbed into bed. He was afraid that he would wake up expensively and quietly stepped on his body and pressed down from above.

From the description, it can be inferred that the so-called small clothes are actually close-fitting trousers. However, in terms of shape, it is not the boxer trousers that are usually worn now, but the big trousers that people often wear. Since it is called "small clothes", it should be a relatively tight one. It should be a triangular trousers, similar to the current "jumpers".

Small clothes are worn close to the body, and women in the Ming Dynasty are usually worn when sleeping. Hui Niang in "Qiao Taishou's chaotic mandarin duck spectrum" in "Xing Shi Heng Yan" wears a small dress to sleep. Yulang "stretched out his hand to touch her body. It was greasy and smooth, but his lower body was also wearing small clothes." There was another description in the following article. Yulang advised Hui Niang, "If you are stubborn, why don't you send the little clothes away?" From the description, it can be concluded that the small clothes belong to the underwear, not the coat.

"Ba Duanjin" is a relatively famous ancient erotic novel. Its author is called "Awakening Scholar". Obviously, this is a pseudonym, not the author's real name. Literally, although the novel he wrote is very filth, it is intended to encourage the world to abstain from lust. Among them, he wrote "Xiaoyi" many times: "Hua's untied the little clothes and fell on **. Zixing inserted the dust handle... Only Zhushi and Meidu, Huashi has lost his Xiaoyi, and he has also escaped."

"The Beautiful History of Wushan" is an erotic novel in the Qing Dynasty, and its author's "untitled writer" does not have his real name. This novel is also one of the "ancient forbidden novels". The protagonist in the book has sexual encounters everywhere, and finally has a lot of beauty and enjoys all the blessings: "At this time, Li Fang's desire is like fire, where she is willing to put it, hugs to **, pulls off her clothes, and is sure."

"Happy Enemies" is also known as "Sexy Mirror" and "Happy Wonders", which describes all kinds of twists and turns of strange marriage stories. The author is the "West Lake Fisherman" of the Qing Dynasty, in which there are also many people who mention small clothes: "Zhang Yingxi is invincible. He undressed his clothes in person and has a lot of love." "Er Niang opened her room and took off her clothes. Go to bed, I'm sleepy there, and my heart is itchy and itchy. Wearing a small dress, wearing a single skirt, I quietly touched it" (Chapter 9), "Rong Niang was rejected at the beginning, and was forced by Xu Sheng, and the small clothes could not be protected" (Chapter 10)

"Dengcao Monk" is also like "Jin Pingmei". It is a famous ** book in ancient China. The author is Gao Zecheng. Xiaoyi has also been mentioned many times in the book. By the way, Li Kebai reached out to touch the eldest aunt's clothes, but the eldest aunt refused. Li Kebai said: Can't both husband and wife sleep in small clothes? The eldest sister-in-law smiled and loosened her hand, which had been pulled down by Bai Bai, revealing the light and moist, fat and white yin, which could not be covered" (the eighth chapter). From this description, we can understand that "Dengcao Monk" reflects the life of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, people had the habit of sleeping naked without underwear, especially between husband and wife.

Judging from the description of underwear in erotic novels, in the past, women's underwear was mainly tight and fit, and small clothes, underwear and buttoned shirts were all like this. This shows that ancient Chinese women knew how to wear "tight clothes" to show the graceful beauty of women's body curves.

The "Historical History of the Embroidered Bed" is an important erotic novel in the late Ming Dynasty. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the booksellers were slightly adapted from it and also known as "Yiqing Array". There is also a record of Xiaoyi in Yiqing Array. "It's just that the little clothes below have not been released yet. Bai Kun said: What does it mean that the outer clothes are not taken off? ... Seeing her husband ask her why she didn't take off her clothes, she was extremely happy... He pretended to say: Shame on you, how can you take off your clothes?" ( The first time), the "lower clothes" here are actually small clothes.

In the eleventh episode of "Dengcao Monk", Nuan Yu hooked up with the Taoist priest Zhou Ziru. "He went to his clothes with Zhou Ziru and got up under the lamp." In the context, "underwear" is the abbreviation of the following small clothes. Why is underwear called a small coat? Because it is close-fitting, tight, and its shape is smaller than the average spacious flat underwear. According to the classification of modern underwear, it is inferred that "small clothes" are today's briefs.

The underwear, as the name implies, is naturally underwear. Huang Qiang believes that there are two layers of the concept of underwear. One is the general term. All underwear can be called underwear; the other is to refer to the underwear, which is relatively small and tight, similar to underwear and bra. "The History of Embroidery" said, "Ma took off his underwear and went to bed naked." When you take off the underwear, it becomes naked. Obviously, it is underwear worn close to the body. If it is not trousers or bra, what is it?

According to the records in the classics, Luo skirt is a skirt made of Luo as fabric. The texture is relatively thin and often transparent. This is basically the case with the Luo skirts of the Tang Dynasty. However, from the description in the erotic novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Luo skirt of the Ming Dynasty is different from the Luo skirt of the Tang Dynasty. Empty Fantasy was banned during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, and the plot of "sexual fantasy" in the book was too bad. The descriptions of Luo's skirt include: "I can't help but be happy and warm. Pull off the woman's Luo skirt and **", "Chi Jiao is on the edge of the bed. Luo's skirt has been untied. She only wears a Yangfei-colored floral jacket. The big red satin trousers are inlaid with gold, and the delicate jade hand is taking off the pair of Hongling's embroidered shoes" (the sixth). The skirt here is obviously different from the skirt worn by women outside. It is worn inside, lined and close to the body. It should be similar to the lining skirt worn inside the skirt now.

From the above description, it can also be found that the color of women's underwear at that time was bright, especially red, which was very popular, such as pink shiny gauze trousers and big red trousers. According to research data, this color is conducive to the pleasure of boudoir. When modern indulgent, open and romantic women choose underwear, the preferred color tends to be bright and gorgeous, which is quite consistent with the aesthetics of women in the Ming Dynasty.

Some erotic novels, when it comes to skirts, they do not emphasize that it is a skirt, or it can't be seen from the literal reflection whether it is underwear, but from the development of the plot, the connection of context and description analysis in the text, it should be a skirt like a skirt.

There is such a text in Wushan Yan History, "Wears a jade shirt, reflecting snow-white skin, wearing a water red gauze skirt, holding a goose feather fan in hand, covering the abdomen obliquely, making a pillow in one hand, holding fragrant cheeks, a hundred times the charm. A pair of three-inch golden lotus, put on the bed, wearing big red high-soled shoes, very cute. Remove a skirt and reveal the red gauze trousers" (Chapter 8). This text shows that the Ming Dynasty women still wear close-fitting trousers in the skirt. This "red gauze trousers" is regarded as underwear, with trousers feet, and its shape is similar to the current skirt and shorts. " "Happy Enemies" has such evidence, "Sister Xiang said: When I relieve myself, I went to the skirt and trousers."

When ancient women wore petticoats, they usually wore tight underwear inside, but some skirts were close to the body, so they no longer wore underwear. This kind of skirt is equivalent to underwear, or it means that there is such a custom in some places that women do not wear trousers in their skirts. Baduanjin, "The shy moon is in the bucket. Seeing the dark clouds coming, she quickly covered her skirt and covered her pink and white buttocks."

There are also two descriptions in Happy Enemies, which reflect the situation of women wearing "gauze skirts" at that time. Yuexian "he took the gauze skirt and wore a small blouse on his upper body... He quietly went to bed, stepped on Biying's body, pulled off the skirt, and put his hands on the table." It's so convenient to act with short soldiers. Obviously, there are no trousers in Li Yuexian's skirt. Of course, this kind of living habit can also be explained by the custom of not wearing underwear in the north when the temperature is relatively high in summer.

But according to the context, this is not a custom, but a gauze skirt as underwear. In the next story, Li Yuexian wore underwear in his skirt. He picked up the top of his clothes and went to untie her skirt. He raised his hand and pulled it off, revealing the big red trousers. What a move. As before... Put the skirt and trousers in the steamed cage, except for the towel, I took off my clothes. It is also possible that Li Yuexian wore different skirts during the two activities. The second time was clearly said to be "skirts and trousers", that is to say, skirts and trousers need to wear underwear, and the inner skirt is quite similar to the function of trousers, and there is no need to wear underwear.

In the single skirt "Love Array", Li uses a single skirt as a close-fitting underwear. However, after Li had sex with Jingquan, the two didn't think it was enough. They made an appointment to fight again tomorrow. Li said, "If you don't believe it, I'll leave this pair of trousers with you and wait for me to wear a single skirt."

The pleated trousers "Meat Put" is the same first-level ** book as "Deng Cao Monk". In the third episode of the book, "Yuxiang really took off all her clothes with him, only the pleated trousers on her feet did not take off. Why? It turns out that there are feet inside the pleated trousers. When the woman wraps her feet, she only cares about the bottom neatly. The ten fingers are uneven, which is not very good. What's more, the three-inch golden lotus must be covered with pleated trousers to find it interesting. From this description, it seems that pleated trousers are socks. However, functionally, it does have the function of foot clothes and socks, but this kind of pleated trousers are still connected to the legs, not exactly socks. Huang Qiang believes that it should be a kind of clothing similar to the current pantyhose.

In the satin trousers "Empty Fantasy", "expand the chest and rub it gently, loosen the buttons, and fade the satin trousers". From this text, it is not difficult to see that the satin trousers are also worn close to women. It is said that the popular point is underwear, and its material is made of satin. According to the material analysis, underwear made of satin should be loose and easy to breathe. Therefore, satin trousers may be what we call boxer trousers today.

The words jumped up stiffly, and I don't know how much water flowed, and my peach-red bright gauze trousers were soaked. Jing Quan wanted to get well with Li, so he hugged Li. "Li twisted his skirt again and pretended not to refuse... (Jing Quan) then pulled his trousers with his hand, broke it apart, and took it off. Then he squeezed his hand and said, "My heart, I pushed Li to the center of the bed, untied her skirt, pulled her trousers, and patted her legs away." The second paragraph does not indicate what kind of trousers it is, and it is speculated that it is also gauze trousers. The skirt is worn outside, and the gauze trousers are worn inside the skirt, and it is worn close to the flesh. The skirts and underwear of women in the Ming Dynasty are tied by cloth belts so that they will not slip off, which has the same effect as today's suspender skirts.

"Gauze trousers" underwear is also mentioned in Jin Pingmei. It seems that gauze trousers are a style, not just because the texture is made of yarn. Because of yarn, some descriptions say that it is bright yarn. The so-called bright yarn should be a thin yarn, so as to infer that the yarn trousers are close-fitting, thin and transparent underwear. The clothing of the Tang Dynasty was made of light yarn and light Luo, which was thin, transparent and leaky. Modern women's underwear is "thin, transparent, thin, leaky" as sexy, with "dew point" as the avant-garde. However, from erotic novels, there has long been "thin and transparent" in women's underwear in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, fashionable women like Pan Jinlian played sexy, such as the thin shorts at that time, there was a hazy beauty and amorous feelings. The secret of the boudoir is as romantic as possible. He challenges the traditional etiquette in his underwear to meet the requirements of human liberation through the indulgence of sexual desire. It can be seen that the "dew point" is not the creation of modern women and dressers.

In "Dengcao Monk", there are also "the little dress taken off by the little monk has never been cleaned up", and the lady "sited on the edge of the bed and took off her trousers with her hands." This pair of trousers is obviously close-fitting underwear such as gauze pants.

In "Happy Enemies", Li Yuexian's rendezvous with Biying has been mentioned when it comes to skirts, and it will not be repeated here. Skirts and trousers can be understood as two types, skirts, skirts and trousers.

Women's underwear also includes skirts, leggings, trousers, thin shorts, etc. Interested netizens can read the old article "Ming Dynasty Women Love to Play Sexy Underwear Show", which is also very clear in "History of Chinese Clothing and Painting", and there is no need to say anything here.

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