Speaking of ancient Qing officials, you may have a lot of answers. But if it comes to the most powerful among the ancient Qing officials, perhaps everyone's answer is more unified: then naturally it is Bao Zheng, he launched a surge, but even the emperor had to retreat! Of course, the most impressive thing for everyone may be his majestic image in dramas and film and television dramas, when he was wearing a dragon robe!
I believe that friends who know a little about history know what this dragon robe symbolized in ancient times. Although Bao Zheng is very famous, this can only show that he is very popular, which does not mean that he can wear it. Because according to the rules, in ancient times, only the Son of Heaven could wear dragon robes. Then the question arises, this kind of thing that was obviously a head-killing act in ancient times, why was it safe and sound on Bao Zheng's body?
In fact, during the Song Dynasty, no matter how enlightened it was, this was only the clothes that the emperor could wear, and it would never allow the scholar to make a mistake in this regard, after all, this symbolized the authority of the emperor. Then someone said that the official uniform worn by Bao Zheng obviously has a five-toed golden dragon on it? In fact, this is completely the fallacy of those who do not understand history when preparing clothing.
Because according to the ancient rules, officials can actually wear python clothes. If it weren't for the artists who made the mistakes, it would be the audience's own oolong, mistaking the python for a dragon. Some people may think that the emperor can't give the dragon robe to Bao Zheng to wear, after all, he has done a lot of things for the emperor, but in fact, this kind of thing can be thought of, and it would never have happened in ancient times.
However, strictly in depth, even if it is a python robe, it is not something that Bao Zheng can wear. Of course, this is not to say that he is not qualified, but to say that the dynasty in which he lived did not have such official clothes at all. The real appearance of python robes on official uniforms was already the Ming Dynasty, when Bao Zheng had been dead for hundreds of years. From this point of view, any practice of wearing a python robe for Bao Zheng cannot stand up to scrutiny.
Only in the Ming Dynasty would the emperor make the python robe one of the options when rewarding those high-ranking officials who had made great contributions, which was still unattainable for ordinary officials. The python robe really began to become ordinary in the official arena during the Qing Dynasty. Since the Qing Dynasty was a regime established by ethnic minorities, there were not so many rules in this regard.
Some viewers may be curious, having said so much, how to distinguish between dragon robes and python robes? It's actually quite simple, just look at whether the painted toes are five or four toes. The five-toeded one belonged only to the emperor at any time, because it was a genuine dragon robe; while the other officials wore a three-toed python robe, although similar in shape. Therefore, for Bao Zheng, there is no question of whether to dare to wear it, because this is the effect that the common people want to achieve in order to deify.