In the history of China, from the beginning of Qin Shi Huang, a strict imperial system has been established, and it is popular to this day, with the gradual strengthening of centralized power, the imperial power has become more and more noble, and the yellow represents the royal family, and has gradually become the symbol of the son of heaven, which is the so-called "yellow robe plus body". Later Ming and Qing emperors also wore mostly yellow dragon robes.
I don't know if you have noticed a detail, that is, in many film and television dramas, most of the emperors have yellow dragon robes, why did Qin Shi Huang only wear black dragon robes in his life? In fact, the reason is very simple
In fact, this actually has a lot to do with the ancient people's concept of the five elements, and the historical Qin Shi Huang was indeed wearing a black dragon robe.
Among the emperors of the past, there was the concept of "the dignity of the Nine-Five", which came from the "I Ching": "Nine-Five, the flying dragon is in the sky, and the lord is seen." Therefore, "nine" and "five" both symbolize the authority of the emperor, and later Qin Shi Huang launched the five virtues in order to strengthen his WeChat.
According to the "History of Qin Shi Huang Benji", the First Emperor pushed the legend of the Five Virtues of the Beginning, thinking that Zhou Dehuode, Zhou De of the Qin Dynasty, was invincible (meaning that the Qin Dynasty was fortunate with water virtue, and Zhou was not victorious over Qin). At the beginning of Fang Jinshuide, the era name was changed, and the pilgrimage was from October Shuo. The clothes pennants are all black. The number is six, the rune and the crown are six inches, and the public opinion is six feet, six feet is a step, and six horses are riding. Renamed the river Deshui, it was thought to be the beginning of water virtue.
In the Five Elements Doctrine, wood is cyan, symbolizing the budding of plants, fire is red, earth is yellow, representing the vigorous vitality of the earth, gold is white, which means metallic luster, and water is black, which is the color of the abyss. The original meaning of "abyss" refers to very deep water. In addition, the surname of Yingzheng has a "female" under it, and the ancients took men as yang and women as yin. The south is yang, and the north is yin. The north is water, so the surname Yin belongs to water. It was for these reasons that Qin Shi Huang put on a black dragon robe.
Interestingly, according to this theory, Liu Bang's dynasty belongs to the "earth", because the Han Dynasty established a dynasty in place of the Qin State, which is in line with the meaning of "Tuke Shui", but the Han believes that it is shunqin orthodox and inherits the "water virtue", so there has been a controversy among the courtiers on this matter. Historia. Emperor Xiaowen's Benji records that "Zhang Cang, the Marquis of Beiping, was the Prime Minister, and fang Ming was in calendar.
Lu Ren Gongsun Chen wrote to Chen to pass on the Five Virtues, and when it was said that when Tude was now Tude, Tude should be seen by Huang Long, and the system of Shuo clothing should be corrected. The Son of Heaven discussed his affairs with the Prime Minister. Xiang Xiang pushed that it was now water virtue, and Shi Ming was going to do something black in October, thinking that his words were not a thing, please stop it. In the end, Tianzi still decided to wear black clothes, so in addition to Qin Shi Huang, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty that we later saw, many of the imperial clothes were also black.
In addition to the Han and Qin, the Tang and Song dynasties belonged to Huode, coupled with economic prosperity, the development of fuel technology, and the imperial dress also belonged to crimson, when did the emperor start to wear yellow again?
In fact, it should be a tradition formed during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the Song Dynasty, "yellow" and "emperor" harmonic, and some people through the five elements theory analysis, yellow in the five elements of the earth, and the ancient Chinese traditional farming civilization society "respect the soil" is a very important idea, so the five elements of the earth is respected, while the middle earth as distinguished from the surrounding "four Yi" existence, yellow also symbolizes orthodoxy, in the past there was "dragon fighting in the wild, its blood Xuan huang" speech, in this way, yellow gradually became the exclusive color of the king. Therefore, future generations will uniformly wear yellow dragon robes.