In daily life, we often say "bow down under the skirt of a pomegranate" to describe the man's devotion to the woman. Over time, we take it for granted that we should say so. But if you look closely, why does "bow down under the pomegranate skirt" have such a meaning? Why does this dress in history have such a great charm that it can make men bow down to their ears? The ancients often said that "bow down under the pomegranate skirt", pomegranate skirt, what kind of skirt is it?
Pomegranates have a close connection with China's clothing culture, which may be due to some people saying that pomegranate flowers resemble the skirts of dancers, and Liang Yuandi's "Wuqi Qu" has the words "Hibiscus for the pomegranate skirt", and the allusion to "pomegranate skirt" comes from this. Ancient women wore skirts, more like garnet red, and the pigments of the red dress at that time were also extracted from the pomegranate flowers, so people also called the red dress "pomegranate skirt", the pomegranate skirt was a popular costume in the Tang Dynasty, especially young and middle-aged women, and the women wearing it also looked particularly beautiful and moving.
When I was a child, I watched the Peking opera "Mu Guiying Hangs Up the Marshal", and I remember that Mu Guiying had such a lyric: "The golden drum that listened fiercely to the sound of the painting horn vibrated, which aroused me to break the heaven's gate and soar through the clouds." I think that the peach blossoms were immediately majestic, and the enemy blood splashed pomegranate skirts..." Mu Guiying's beauty, needless to say, the pomegranate skirt must also be very beautiful.
In "Pipa Line", Bai Juyi once described the woman who played the pipa with amazing color skills: "Qu Shu once taught good people to dress, and made up every time she was jealous of Qiu Niang... The silver grate of the tungsten head shattered, and the blood-colored luo skirt turned over the wine stain. This "blood-colored skirt" is the pomegranate skirt. The pomegranate skirt has been circulated for a long time, and Tang Yin of the Ming Dynasty wrote in the poem "MeiFei Smelling Incense": "Plum blossom fragrance is full of pomegranate skirts". Although it is written about the Tang Dynasty, it can be seen that in the real life of that time, this style of skirt was still cherished by young women. Because the pomegranate skirt has endured for a long time, it is still used vividly today. Today, people say: "Bow down under the pomegranate skirt", mostly to describe the woman's delicate appearance, elegant manners, and her admiration.
The origin of the pomegranate skirt can be traced back to Yang Yuhuan, one of the four beauties of ancient times. It is reported that because Yang Guifei, who was very favored by Tang Xuanzong at that time, liked pomegranates, Tang Xuanzong planted a lot of pomegranate trees around her residence, and many of the skirts worn by Yang Yuhuan were also decorated with pomegranate flowers. Later, once Yang Yuhuan was in a very bad mood, so Tang Xuanzong ordered that everyone who saw Yang Guifei must perform a great ceremony, so there was a saying that he fell under her pomegranate skirt. So slowly, all skirts that were similar to the pattern of the skirts worn by Yang Guifei were called pomegranate skirts, and Yang Yuhuan's story became the reason for the statement of "falling under her pomegranate skirt".