When we watch TV dramas, there is a consensus that the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army are gray. If you tell you now that the uniform of the Eighth Route Army is actually yellow and green, can you accept it? The real situation ruins your three views. Whether it is an anti-Japanese film that strictly respects history, or an anti-Japanese drama that is not very rigorous. The uniforms of the Eighth Route Army that we see look like this.
The uniform of the New Fourth Army looks like this.
In fact, the uniform of the Eighth Route Army is yellow, which is very ruining to your three views. It's like this.
So why are the Uniforms of the Eighth Route Army that we see gray? This is a long story, and we begin with the reorganization of the Red Army into the Eighteenth Army group of the National Revolutionary Army. After the Eighth Route Army was reorganized into the National Revolutionary Army, his uniform style was no different from that of other units in various places, and the only difference that might be the color. Contrary to our impression, most of the Eighth Route Army uniforms are really yellow-green styles. At the beginning, our Eighth Route Army could get logistical supplies from three divisions of the Kuomintang government. Therefore, the uniform of the Eighth Route Army, which can eat "imperial food" in these three parts, is the imitation German gray color of the Central Army of the National Government. However, we know that Chiang Kai-shek was very sharp, and the supply of these three divisions was soon gone. The uniforms of many of the remaining main forces of the Eighth Route Army are inherited from the gray of the Red Army era. So where did this yellow-green uniform come from?
This yellow-green uniform is mainly a gray uniform produced by the Eighth Route Army that does not have enough productivity. After the stage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, our army's uniforms were mainly produced by our own base areas. Most of the base areas are in rural areas, and the areas are not fixed. Therefore, the military uniforms produced by the indigenous method will be various. These soil-dyed military uniforms are all made of the most common dyes, so they are varied. Even if it is gray, it is different. In some base areas, the color of military uniforms is darker, and some are lighter. If the Eighth Route Army in these base areas were together, it would be estimated that it would look like a sports event. The production process of the Eighth Route Army's uniforms is to distribute white cloth to the people in the base areas, and then these ordinary people sew the uniforms one by one. As for the color, it is dyed with the most common grass and wood ash or laterite. Therefore, the military uniforms in places like Shandong, Henan, and Hebei are all yellow-green. In places like northern Shaanxi, because our party has been operating for a long time, the uniforms are all gray. The area with the largest number of soldiers in the Eighth Route Army is the Henan area of Shandong, so the most common military uniform is actually yellow-green. So why do directors like to use gray military uniforms?
The gray military uniform is actually the representative of the main force. Gray military uniforms are mainly concentrated in addition to the above-mentioned northern Shaanxi. And then there's the Southern Region. The southern region has a developed economy, so it can produce gray military uniforms. Therefore, at the beginning, after the reorganization of the New Fourth Army, it was a gray military uniform. This gray uniform does not have a sense of violation. In addition to the problem of production, the problem of fading will also make many military uniforms turn yellow-green. As mentioned above, the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army are all produced by the indigenous method, and this color is of course easier to fade. Again, think the Eighth Route Army is like now? Their uniforms were not issued so timely, and the two uniforms were worn back and forth, and the wind and the sun slowly faded. For example, gray military uniforms, many of which slowly turned grass green. The yellow-green military uniform is even more miserable, fading into a grayish white.