In ancient times, someone launched a coup d'état to seize the throne, we will say that he was "yellow robe plus body", what is "yellow robe", it is often regarded as a symbol of ancient imperial clothes, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan even proposed that "it is forbidden to use red and yellow as clothes", and ordinary people are not allowed to wear red and yellow clothes.
However, before the Tang and Song dynasties, China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, wore a black dragon robe alone, and there was a hidden mystery inside.
Qin Shi Huang, born in 259 BC, was the first monarch in China to call himself "Emperor", because he felt that his merits far exceeded that of the previous "Three Emperors and Five Emperors", taking "Emperor" as his honorific title. He unified the six kingdoms, weights and measures, currency, and writing, attacked the Xiongnu in the north, conquered Baiyue in the south, and built the Great Wall, which is China's "emperor of thousands of years".
However, in the era of low productivity and backward science and technology, Qin Shi Huang could not hide from "superstition", he was convinced of the "Five Elements Theory", and his pursuit of immortality was even more crazy. At that time, he unified the six countries, all the institutional regulations had not yet taken shape, and he had to take measures quickly.
During the Yellow Emperor period before Qin Shi Huang, it was often said that "earth qi sheng", meaning that the Yellow Emperor was "earth"; during the Yu period, the flowers and plants and vegetation would not wither in winter, so Yu said "wood qi sheng", "wood"; in the Zhou Dynasty, King Wen of Zhou often felt that "fire qi was victorious", "fire". According to the law in the five elements, water overcomes fire, then Qin Shi Huang must be "water".
Therefore, Qin Shi Huang advocated the virtue of "water", and in the Five Elements Theory, water is black, which means the color of the abyss. Abyss: refers to very deep water, boundless: is a synonym for eternal existence, fully in line with the requirements of Qin Shi Huang, then the dragon robe he wears must be black.
Later, the Han Dynasty overthrew the rule of the Qin Dynasty, and Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, was from the grassroots and did not pay much attention to these things, so the Western Han Dragon Robe was also "living with water virtue and serving black at the beginning." "Consistent with the Qin Dynasty Dragon Robe." It was only when Liu Heng, the Emperor of Han, developed that he gave up black.
According to the "History of Emperor Xiaowen Benji", Liu Heng believed that the Han Dynasty should be "huode", so "Emperor Wen of Han for fifteen years, dressed in yellow; sixteen years, dressed in red", which continued until the Jin Dynasty, and the dragon robes were all big red.
The "yellow robe" we often say really began to become popular during the Sui and Tang dynasties, when the "yellow is precious" was advocated. At that time, Emperor Wen of Sui wore yellow robes to the court, but at that time, the people could also wear yellow clothes, until the Tang Gaozu Wude years, the emperor was unwilling to wear yellow robes with ordinary people, and only then did he order the people not to wear yellow clothes.
Later, even more, the color of the official's robe was also strictly regulated, such as: three or more products are purple, four products and five products are Zhu, six products and seven products are green, and eight products and nine products are green. Emperor Gaozong of Tang once again stressed that "all things are not allowed to be yellow."
So how did the idiom "yellow robe plus body" come about? It began with the "Chen Qiao Mutiny". On the first day of the first lunar month in 960 AD, it was rumored that the Khitan united with the Northern Han Dynasty to attack The Zhou Dynasty, and the chancellor and others did not distinguish between true and false at all, so they quickly sent Zhao Kuangyin to lead troops north to resist the enemy.
A group of people came to Chen Qiaoyi, Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Pu and other conspiracies and plotted, launched a mutiny, the men put the yellow robe prepared earlier on Zhao Kuangyin, fell to his knees and embraced him as emperor, and then Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne and changed the name of the country to "Song", and since then there has been the idiom of "yellow robe plus body", which is a metaphor for the success of the coup.
By the time of Emperor Renzong of Song and Emperor Zhao Zhen, he stipulated that ordinary people were not allowed to use yellow robes as a base or to prepare patterns. Since then, the yellow robe has been unique to the emperor, and the yellow robe is also used by the emperor, which is the real emperor wearing the yellow robe. People can't help but sigh that just the color of the clothes hides the thousands of thoughts of the ancient emperors.