In the cognition of modern people, the emperor's dragon robe is a symbol of royal majesty, using the most honorable yellow, finely embroidered with several dragon patterns, and with the broadcast of a large number of Qing Palace dramas, Ming Dynasty, Tang Dynasty as the background of the historical drama, more firm people's view of the emperor's dragon robe, the most basic is to use the noble yellow as the base, but with the broadcast of some film and television dramas with the Qin and Han Dynasties as the background, people have also had different views on the color of the emperor's dragon robe.
Qin Shi Huang in 221 BC annexed the Six Kingdoms, established a unified state, ended the Eastern Zhou Dynasty hundreds of years of chaos, laid the foundation for the unified unified Chinese geographical and political concept, in order to show his own merits, Qin Shi Huang took the word "emperor" in the three emperors and five emperors as his title, and formulated a series of systems that reflect the majesty of the emperor, of which the dragon as a symbol of the emperor is a very important step, the clothes worn by the emperor are called dragon robes, which basically became the object of imitation by later emperors.
In the choice of dragon robe system, the more common clothing samples at that time were adopted, but the materials were more elaborate, and at the same time, the choice of the color of the emperor's dragon robe became a key consideration. The previous Warring States Seven Heroes, according to the direction of the country, geography and other factors for the choice of the king's robes, also shown on the flag of the national army, the Qin state belongs to the northwestern position, corresponding to the water virtue in the five elements, so the country advocates black, as the last unified world of the Qin monarch, Qin Shi Huang chose symbolic black on the emperor's dragon robe to show the majesty of the emperor, and the merits of the Qin state under his leadership.
Unfortunately, qin state II died, the successor of the Han Dynasty initially inherited the Qin system, also used black dragon robes, but by the time of Emperor Wen of Han, some ministers proposed that the Han Dynasty corresponded to fire, and the corresponding color was red, and the black dragon robe contained the unfavorable lessons of Qin II's death, it was suggested that the emperor's dragon robe be changed to red, after Emperor Wen's deliberation and consultation with the ministers, it was decided to add red to the cuffs, necklines and edges on the base of retaining the black of the former dynasty, so that the emperor's dragon robe was basically composed of black and red. This was the case until the Southern and Northern Dynasties, during which although the dragon robe system changed, the color remained unchanged.
In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the centralized political system became more and more complete, and the authority of the royal family was also more and more valued, so it began to add yellow to the emperor's dragon robe, implying the "emperor" of the emperor, and when Tang Taizong Li Shimin came, Wei Zheng proposed to change the emperor's dragon robe to all yellow to highlight the status of the royal family, and at the same time set yellow as the royal color of the royal family, which was not used by the people, since then, yellow has officially become the exclusive color of the emperor in the Tang Dynasty, and the yellow dragon robe has become the mainstream color of future emperors. Therefore, the color of the dragon robe is different, and the exquisiteness behind it is also very different.