In modern life, when we load things, we like to put things in the pocket, or in the backpack, but in ancient times, most of the clothes of the ancients are robes and body, from the outside, its design is not pocketed, for a time where the ancient things will be installed has become a doubt and groove in people's hearts.
But when you are in costume dramas, you will see that the "ancients" in these TV dramas will have a habit, that is, to put some bits and pieces in their cuffs, but when they see this "operation", everyone must have a kind of confusion in their hearts, that is, when we load things like this, we don't say how much we can pack, that is, it seems inconvenient to carry.
The dressing traditions of the ancients
In ancient times, the most important thing was the level of people and people, if a person's rank is too high, his dress, travel and house will be very magnificent. The aim of this was to establish a strict hierarchical framework in the feudal dynasty, and it was precisely because of such a framework that the whole state at that time was well organized and orderly. In fact, there are very few people who can wear large sleeves and silk, and most of the people who can wear this in ancient times are officials, because in ancient times, in order to restrict and suppress merchants, the government did not allow them to wear clothes made of silk in successive dynasties. Therefore, only some high-ranking people are left to wear clothes with big sleeves. Some civilians and merchants basically wore one of the coarse cloths. However, with the later relaxation of merchants, when everyone looks at the history of modern dynasties, there are also merchants who can wear silk.
There are pockets in both sleeves
The design of the pocket is not a product of modernity, it has emerged with the progress and development of history. In fact, in the two large sleeves of the ancients, there is a pocket with the opposite direction and cuff, and the ancients will put some simple and easy things into the sleeve pocket when they take things.
There is a lot of history about cuff loading, for example, let's talk about the Chongzhen Emperor in the last period. At that time, he could be said to be in danger, but when he was about to enter the palace as emperor, he was afraid that the food in the palace would be poisonous, so he filled some dry food and bread in the pocket of the cuff, and then took it out to eat at dinner, so we can see how big the pocket in the cuff of the ancient period would be.
In addition, during the Qianlong period, there was also an incident that could reflect the pockets in the sleeves, and this incident was that Qianlong invited officials to eat "white boiled meat.".
This method of cooking meat is actually extremely simple and crude, first of all, the royal family will first put a large piece of boiled meat in white water for boiling, and when this piece of meat is cooked, it will be fished out to sacrifice to the ancestors, and then distributed to the ministers to eat. Because the cooking method of this meat is too simple and rough, so people often have difficulty swallowing when eating, in order to solve such a problem, officials will put the prepared seasoning package in the cuff pocket before the emperor rewards this "white boiled meat", and then secretly apply it to the meat when eating, so that the meat will not be so unpalatable.
The role of the belt pack
In addition to the pockets of the cuffs, the ancients also liked to put these things into the pocket and purse when loading objects, and then pinned to the waist, so as to facilitate access. Because of the limited number of such purses and purses, in many cases, such purses can only hold very few things, such as silver, jewelry and dry food.
If they are very prominent people, they will have one or two servants around them when they go out, so they can just give them to the servants when they put things away. In addition to the pockets, purses, and belt bags at the cuffs, there are also bags that can provide storage and convenience for the ancients.
Objectively speaking, it is still very inconvenient for the ancients to go out and take things outside, even if we now only need a pair of cargo pants plus a backpack, you can put a lot of things down.