The tomb of an eighteen-year-old woman was found in Fujian, and hundreds of pieces of clothing were unearthed from the tomb, the lightest weighing only 16.7 grams
As the saying goes, "Man depends on clothing, Buddha depends on gold." In food, clothing, housing, and transportation, clothing and decoration are necessary for us, because it has the functions of cold protection, shame, beauty, identity embodiment, status embodiment, position embodiment and so on. Clothing industries such as garment making and clothing sales are a pillar of social and economic strength, which shows its importance.
In modern society, due to the improvement of the economic level, dressing is no longer difficult, then the pursuit of beauty has become the mainstream of the clothing industry, all kinds of clothing fashion trends do not affect the general public, many people are proud to walk at the head of the fashion trend. In fact, not only in modern society, but also in ancient China, people are very particular about all kinds of clothing, that is, women whose social status is inferior to men's.
In the early 1970s, a Tomb of the Southern Song Dynasty was unearthed in Fujian Province, and the funerary items inside surprised the archaeological team, but what surprised them was not gold and silver jewelry and precious antiques, but more than 300 pieces of women's clothing, almost all styles.
Through archaeological excavations, we can know that the owner of the tomb is called Huang Sheng, the daughter of an official in the Southern Song Dynasty. We all know that marriages in ancient times were the orders of parents and the words of matchmakers, not by the autonomy of the parties, and the same was true for Huang Sheng. However, Huang Sheng was able to marry into the imperial family at that time and became the wife of Zhao Youjun, the grandson of Zhao Kuangyin, the eleventh grandson of The Song Taizu.
However, Huang Sheng was a red face with a thin life, although he married into the royal family at a very young age and became a member of the royal family, he died of illness at the age of eighteen, which was really blessed to have no life.
It is precisely because Huang Shengying died young and her face was short-lived, so her mother-in-law and in-laws were very sad and buried her after her death. Through the more than 300 pieces of clothing and ornaments in Huang Sheng's tomb mentioned above, we can see how sad the people who buried her were.
Among the more than 300 pieces of clothing and funerary products, there are more than 20 types of clothing such as underwear, petticoats, vests, pants, bibs, and bibs, and even private items such as sachets, purses, bands, hygiene belts, foot-wrapping belts, etc., which are very complete inside and out, which is simply an encyclopedia of women's clothing and ornaments in the Southern Song Dynasty, providing excellent research materials for China's historical and archaeological circles to study women's clothing and ornaments in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the excavated bandeau is the earliest bandeau in the era of excavation.
Although these clothing and funerary products have turned yellow in color because of their age, they are generally well preserved, and their materials can also be analyzed through comparison and examination, including aya, luo, silk, satin, yarn, silk, silk, silk, crepe, etc., almost including the ancient clothing materials.
Not only that, but some of these clothing materials are no longer used, and can only be seen from some ancient records, which is a big discovery.
Among the more than three hundred pieces of clothing and funerary ornaments, one vest caught the attention of archaeologists. This is a dark peony flower vest, which weighs only 16.7 grams. According to the standard conversion of one pound equals five hundred grams and fifty grams equals one or two, this vest is less than half a double.
Such a light and thin vest is not easy to make, which shows that the handmade clothing technology of the Southern Song Dynasty is very superb, and the high standards and high requirements of the ancients for clothing. Maybe Huang Sheng was a beautiful girl who loved beautiful clothes, but I don't know how beautiful and moving she was when she put on her favorite clothes?