Thousands of years ago, the ancients dressed "dopamine" style
In the summer heat, handsome guys and beautiful girls have changed into beautiful summer clothes. Especially the recent "dopamine" dressing style, brushing the screen of major online platforms, also ignited the passion of this summer.
What is "dopamine" dressing style?
It is reported that this colorful and diverse outfit can mobilize people's positive emotions and promote the secretion of the pleasure factor dopamine, thereby conveying a pleasant and cheerful mood. In short, it's about putting happiness on your body.
In fact, the ancient people's wearing color is also very powerful, Shaanxi has a wealth of cultural heritage resources, especially the cultural relics preserved in major museums have also rushed to the hot search for many times because of the fashion of dressing, terracotta warriors, Tang Sancai, Tang tomb murals in the "dopamine" wearing color style, but also let the body feel the fashion trend of thousands of years ago.
Plastic clothes sit on their hands
Love of beauty, everyone has, we also have the saying "people rely on clothes horses rely on saddle", have their favorite clothes, but also ancient and modern Chinese and foreign people of different genders, different ages of the pursuit, when people have their favorite food, beautiful clothes, the human body will produce "dopamine".
"Dopamine" is a neurotransmitter in the human body, and it is also one of the important substances in the human body to regulate emotions, and it is also a strong hormone, which can induce pleasant feelings in the human brain, making people feel happy, excited and satisfied.
The color whirlwind quickly swept through the summer, like a long-lost emotional release. In the past, many dressing professionals would bitterly persuade: wear no more than three colors on the body at the same time. If you walk down the street colorfully, you will most likely be classified as "non-mainstream".
But now, oncoming passers-by will say as if to a code: "Look, it's dopamine!" "Dopamine outfit," one of the hottest traffic passwords this summer. Caroline Mayer, a behavioral psychologist and author of The Psychology of Fashion, agrees that clothing is the basis of human perception, which in turn affects people's sense of self-worth and, ultimately, how they see themselves.
While many people put the practicality of clothes over aesthetics during the pandemic, it's only natural that consumers will show unprecedented interest in everything that will delight the senses – including new, fashionable, and brightly colored clothes. Caroline Meier believes that it is not the clothing itself that makes people feel comfortable, but the positive associations associated with it.
The terracotta warriors are actually colored
Mysterious and calm Qin dynasty dopamine outfit
The Hanjing Diyang Mausoleum Museum displays Han Dynasty costumes
Many viewers may not know that the Terracotta Army is actually colored before officially visiting the Terracotta Army, and only after the visit will they know the "soldier brothers" of the Qin Dynasty, unlike our current soldiers to distribute uniform clothing, their clothing may be their own, from the unearthed thousands of people and thousands of faces of the Terracotta Army can also be seen, their "matching" is also quite trendy.
2,200 years ago, after shaping the terracotta army, the craftsmen of Qin Shi Huang dressed up the "warriors and war horses" in colorful colors, and the entire terracotta army was also vivid and vivid because of the color all over the body.
Thousands of years ago, when craftsmen applied colors, they painted pink on the exposed parts of the terracotta warriors' bodies, such as the face, hands and feet, and limbs, in order to be as close as possible to the skin color of the human body; Hair, eyebrows, beard, eyes, etc. are painted black. In different parts of clothing, there are red, green, black, white, blue, purple, yellow, pink 8 colors a total of nearly 20 hues, after testing, there are 12 different pigments, most of which are natural minerals, and a few are synthetic, such as "Chinese purple" and "lead white" and "lead dan" are considered to be artificial. When purple is combined with 8 other colors, the terracotta warriors give a calm and mysterious feeling, and the use of black and green makes people feel excited and excited. The "Chinese purple" is artificially manufactured copper barium silicate, which has not yet been found in nature, and the Qin Warrior is the earliest known physical object to use it with the exact location and age. It is understood that in 1992, scientists first found copper barium silicate from Han Dynasty figurines, which was called "Han purple", and then found that it was widely used on the Qin Terracotta Army, so it is now commonly called "Chinese purple".
This mysterious "Chinese purple" color scheme appeared on the terracotta warriors and horses together with other colors, making the terracotta warriors come to life, and the choice of red, green, black, white, blue, purple, yellow, pink and other multi-color options also allowed us to show the "dopamine dressing" style of the Qin Dynasty soldiers' brothers thousands of years later.
The classical beauty of ancient women
Han dynasty dopamine dress with rhythm
Tang Sancai dressed up the female sitting figurine
After seeing the outfits of the soldiers and horses of the Qin Dynasty, let's see the dressing style of the Han Dynasty sister by admiring the terracotta figurines unearthed in the burial tomb of the Hanyang Mausoleum.
It is reported that Hanyang Mausoleum is the fourth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, Hanjing Emperor Liu Qi and Empress Wang buried together, in the mausoleum area of more than 100 site pits unearthed tens of thousands of various terracotta figurines, their lowest 48 cm, the highest 62 cm, is a real one-third of the size, vividly reproduce the life style of Han Dynasty society. She is wearing a white right collared skirt and a deep coat, with red and yellow brocade on the collar, cuffs, placket, etc. She smiled, added a bit of charm, and then looked at her hair, the bun was tied behind her neck, and a strand fell naturally, seemingly inadvertent, but in fact it was ethereal. Through her, we seem to see a Han Dynasty beauty who has traveled through thousands of years and is still alive and agile, showing the classical beauty of ancient Chinese women.
The excavation of this terracotta figurine not only allows us to understand the clothing and form of the handmaids of the noble families of the Han Dynasty, but also provides us with a physical basis for studying the clothing of the Han Dynasty.
Hanfu, also known as Han Yiguan, Han clothing, Chinese clothing, it is from the Yellow Emperor period to the end of the Ming Dynasty, with a history of nearly 4,000 years, different identities, different levels of people wear clothes from material to color, accessories are different.
According to historical records, the Chinese costume wore the right side of the collar, the wide coat belt, and the tie concealed button. There are two categories of traditional Chinese clothing styles, the first type is the top and bottom, is the earliest and most basic style in the mainland, it is called clothes on top, and "clothes" below, and the word clothes comes from this. The second category is deep clothing, which is the earliest robe clothing on the mainland, which is characterized by wrapping the body and hiding it deeply. Etiquette and clothing are the essence of Chinese civilization. Hanfu and Hanli show the elegance in Chinese's heart, and the new costume embodies the soul of national rhythm.
The courtyard preserves the plastic clothes painted figurines, the heavenly court is full, the face is round, the eyebrows are beautiful, the beard is out, and the lips are closed. The colors of the clothes he wore were mainly white, earthy yellow, and brown, embellished with red, pink and other decorative colors, showing the image of a conscientious and obedient civil servant in the Han Dynasty.
Very bold, avant-garde and lively
Energetic Tang dynasty dopamine outfit
Qin Terracotta Army excavation site
With a broad vision, a broad mind and an open mind, the Tang Dynasty brought China into a new era from the political and economic system to culture and art, and social atmosphere, and finally rose as a world power at the height of the Tang Dynasty, rising on the vast land of eastern Asia, writing the most brilliant chapter in ancient Chinese history. Through the figurines of Tang Sancai preserved in many museums in Shaanxi, you can glimpse the "dopamine" dressing style of handsome men and women in the Tang Dynasty.
The choice of each color has deep cultural connotation and symbolic significance, and Tang Sancai's color matching can make people feel vivid and pleasant.
As one of the traditional ceramics of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Sancai is characterized by bright colors and distinct layers, and because of the use of metal oxide pigment glaze firing technology, it has high water resistance, fire resistance and durability. Tang Sancai's color scheme is mainly yellow, green, white, black and brown, of which yellow and green can make people feel pleasant and stimulating.
Tang Sancai in yellow and green is a color saturation of high color saturation, can bring stimulation and excitement will stimulate people's dopamine, make people feel energetic and vibrant, through Tang Sancai we can understand that Tang Dynasty tide men and women, but also like to use bright colors such as yellow, green, white as the main color to wear.
Red is often seen as a color that represents festivity, happiness, and enthusiasm, while gold represents wealth, honor, and power. The choice of these colors has a lot to do with what people usually like and how they react to "dopamine."
Many Tang tomb murals preserved in Shaanxi involve history, people, life, animals, food, landscape, etc., showing the style and aesthetic interest of Tang Dynasty culture.
Among the more than 100 Tang Dynasty tombs with murals that have been found in Shaanxi, the earliest is the tomb of He Ruoque in the fourth year of Gaozu Wude (621 AD), and the latest is the Jingling Tomb of Emperor Xizong in the first year of Wende (888 AD). Most of the murals of Tang tombs removed are in the collection of the Shaanxi History Museum. Among the murals preserved in the museum, the most selected color is crimson, which gives people a sense of mystery and solemnity, which is applied to the pictures of many people in the mural, and gold is often used to decorate the decoration of the building.
The color matching of the Tang tomb murals gives people a sense of vividness and vitality, the choice of colors is mainly red, brown, black, of which black can make people feel calm and soft, through the Tang tomb murals, we can also glimpse the Tang Dynasty political, economic, cultural center area of the princes and aristocrats wearing color style is very bold, avant-garde and lively, showing us the fashion style of people living in the Chang'an area of the Tang Dynasty as an international metropolis.
Source: Xi'an Evening News
(Responsible editor: Cheng Yumeng)