Would you be willing to wear open crotch pants from birth until adulthood?
In fact, whether you like it or not, the people after the Warring States period wore open crotch pants from childhood to adulthood, so why did the ancients wear open crotch pants?
Ancient pants and the pants we now recognize there is a difference, our current pants are crotch, but many ancient pants are open, generally will be done more wide, can be worn to form a closed effect, and even some only have pants legs.
According to the "Jianluo , Three Emperors " , in primitive society , there was already a habit of "attacking leaves for clothing" and according to the "Wuyuan Yiyuan Xi" ( " ) " There is a nest of first clothes " , that is , the use of leaves and animal furs to make clothes , which should be the earliest record of clothing in Chinese history.
And the ancients began to see underwear, which should be the Han Dynasty period. Before King Wuling of Zhao implemented the "Hufu Riding Shooting", the ancients did not have the concept of pants, which belonged to the period of single clothes, that is, the meaning of skirts.
For the sake of the country's strength, when King Wuling of Zhao implemented the "Hu costume riding shooting", in order to conform to the trend of the development of the war mode from "infantry warfare" to "riding warfare", he imitated the hu people's dress and changed the single underwear to a double bottom, which is what we now call open crotch pants.
Therefore, Chinese wore skirts before the Warring States, and after the Warring States and before the Han Dynasty popularized underwear, they wore open crotch pants. Chinese trousers originated in the northwest, and archaeological materials show that as early as 3,000 years ago, crotch pants appeared in the Xinjiang region that were almost indistinguishable from today, and the habit of not wearing pants dates back to the Neolithic era.
At that time, the typical clothing was probably wrapped in a whole piece of fabric, without cutting, and even the sleeves were not there, let alone pants. Miraculously, this simple and airy "vacuum suit" was passed down for thousands of years, until the era of the Book of Poetry, usually "tops and bottoms".
Wearing a collared narrow-sleeved short coat on the upper body and a flowing skirt on the lower body, let us retreat time to the Xia Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty, due to the continuous upgrading and development of farming technology, textile technologies such as leather, leather, silk, and hemp have been greatly developed, and even silk and linen fabrics have become the mainstream.
During the Shang Dynasty, relying on powerful weaving techniques, more delicate silk began to appear.
Coupled with a large number of market demand, the status of cotton, hemp, mulberry and other crops has been greatly improved. Unfortunately, the quality of the fabric at that time was not good, thick and rough. At the same time, the weaving is all manually compiled, the production time is very long, and the clothes made are relatively single.
Therefore, before the Shang Dynasty, most people's clothing still stayed in the "dress" period, similar to the current "slanted shoulder skirt", with bare arms, but in order to facilitate the cold, the underwear was worn to the chest-length position at that time.
In the Zhou Dynasty, official positions such as "Sifu" and "Inner Sifu" began to appear, responsible for controlling the royal family's clothing, and including dressing in the scope of etiquette. Cultural relics unearthed from the Zhou Dynasty have distinguished between tops and bottoms, which refer to the clothes worn on the upper body, and the lower clothes refer to the skirt worn on the lower body.
Clothing, that is, the name before the evolution of pants
In the Warring States period, after seeing the combat skills of the Hu people, King Wuling of Zhao realized the importance of "riding war", and single-handedly rode a horse to shoot arrows, which was not only better than the "chariot" and infantry, not only better in combat effectiveness, but also much better in flexibility.
Therefore, he ordered the implementation of the "Hufu Riding Shooting" in the Zhao Kingdom, so that the soldier's two thighs were put on the underwear, which was one of the most important changes, which was an epoch-making reform.
King Wuling of Zhao wuling in that era could not have imagined that as a king of the tang dynasty, he would actually become a promoter of clothing reform. Because the soldiers have a shrunken underwear on each of their legs, it is very convenient for combat operations, and it also has a better warmth function, the most important thing is to save a considerable amount of cloth.
Therefore, this reform was quickly popularized among the people, and with the productivity of the time, who would not want to save cloth while improving warmth?
As a result, the double tube bottom gradually evolved into a shin coat, which is also called "绔", which is what we call open crotch pants.
Warring States period, due to weak productivity, high-end silk can only be used by a very small number of people, most of the ordinary cloth is still relatively rough, if you do not wear open crotch pants, crotch stitching a piece of coarse cloth, both will make people inconvenient, but also easy to move, due to frequent friction and injury to important parts.
Therefore, the crotch pants have the opportunity to promote, of course, the nobles because of the usual pampering, do not need to engage in manual labor, do not know how to run and jump, so for them, the disadvantage of wearing open crotch pants is only a little cold in winter.
But wearing open crotch pants has a problem that has to be faced, easy to go light, very unsightly, but even if it is easy to go light, the advantages of open crotch pants still make the nobles unable to give up, in order to "reasonable" wear open crotch pants, nobles also formulated a set of sitting etiquette to restrain people's code of conduct.
Therefore, the ancients were extremely particular about the requirements of sitting posture
The ancients invented kneeling, largely to prevent the leakage of spring light, there is a kneeling sitting posture called "stomping", which is the most ceremonial way for the ancients to sit.
That is, long kneeling: two knees on the ground, calves close to the ground, hips sitting on the calves and heels, the upper body is straight, it will look very stable and dignified
But in fact, this sitting posture will make people feel very uncomfortable, especially for a long time, and even make people's legs or feet cramp, sitting for a long time is undoubtedly a cruel test of perseverance. Japanese people once learned a lot of Chinese culture, and kneeling was also transmitted to Japan during this period.
Since ancient times, kneeling has been considered by the Japanese to be a "proper etiquette", and to this day, on some important occasions, Japanese people will adhere to the traditional sitting posture of kneeling. The sitting position of modern people sitting on the ground with their legs outstretched is called "Ji Ji" in ancient times, which is a sitting posture that is considered "offensive to morality".
The reason is naturally because the inside is wearing open crotch pants, it is easy to spring out when ji is in the middle, I want to start Jing Ke stabbed the Qin King, knowing that his death date has arrived, Jing Ke directly stood on the ground, with the way of opening the crotch, expressed the final contempt to the Qin King, at the same time, in order to prevent the "spring light from leaking", people will wear the underwear on the outside very long, especially the women who enter the harem, almost all of them are neon clothes mopping the floor, those ordinary people certainly do not have such good conditions, after all, the longer the clothes, the more cloth they need.
But the common people are not helpless, in addition to the shin coat, and then put on a piece of underwear is it, the ancients also used the "calf nose pants" (dú bí kūn) to cope with the light, which is a kind of crotch shorts, two round pants legs similar to the cow nose, which is similar to the "undershirt" often worn by modern men, is the minimum limit of men's clothing.
If a person wears a calf nose and nose to show off the market, he is either poor or an eclectic "spirit guy", and the shin jacket is actually the predecessor of the underwear from the actual role.
At the end of the Warring States period and the Qin Dynasty, shin clothes have been widely popularized, that is to say, before the Qin Dynasty, the ancients have maintained the habit of wearing open crotch pants, and this open crotch pants is their "underwear".
During the Han Dynasty, China's silk technology has made a qualitative leap, all kinds of silk products, silk materials through the Silk Road, exported to Persia and Rome, because the silk texture is thin, smooth and breathable, at that time was the most suitable material for making underwear, and the technology of making underwear was not so advanced.
Therefore, underwear at this time finally began to be widely popularized, but now there is a saying, some people think that underwear began to be popular in the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, the reason is because during this period, men have basically canceled the underwear (skirt), began to popular "short" personal clothing, there is no underwear cover, if you continue to wear open crotch pants, you have to get it, you can't always be all over the street is expository!
This statement also has a certain degree of rationality and has won the support of some people.
Of course, during the real rise of underwear, there is no definite source of information, and we naturally cannot verify it. But before the Qin Dynasty, underwear was not yet popular, and the fabric at that time was thick and rough, and it was certainly uncomfortable to stick to the privacy position.
But the textile of the Han Dynasty is already at the world's leading level, sewing simple underwear itself has no technical obstacles, the use of cloth is not much, therefore, the popularity of underwear in the Han Dynasty is the most reasonable statement at present, as for the physiological needs of this aspect, I also went through some of the information.
In fact, physiological needs are not the main reason why the ancients wore open crotch pants, at least most of the people are not, although the open crotch pants will indeed be convenient for the ancients to go to the toilet, but because the outside will put on a piece of clothing, the toilet is still inconvenient, not to mention the need to consider the aesthetic problem.
And in the long river of history, some emperors are energetic and will deliberately require harem concubines and ordinary palace women to wear open crotch pants, while some Qinglou women, in order to improve their performance, will also wear open crotch pants to attract guests.
With the continuous development of traditional etiquette and the rising productivity, the crotch pants have been run over by the wheels of history and swept into the dust. Now we can only see the existence of open crotch pants in children, in fact, it is not that the ancients wanted to wear open crotch pants, it is more than enough and insufficient.
After all, the audience must be like me, can't stand the rough texture of the coarse cloth!
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