In the play, there are often some things hanging on the right placket of the female character's costume, either a jade pendant, or a bracelet, or a sachet or something.
What is this garment called, and is there any way to hang it?
I press the placket and arrange it.
The editor hurried to collect information and learn about it with you.
The placket in "Yanxi Raiders".
A brooch that doesn't look like a bracelet, isn't it a good placket?
In fact, this clothing pendant is called the placket, the so-called "placket", literally understood as "the thing that presses the placket", is the accessory that ancient women hung on the chest, mostly silver, worn on the upper right side of the placket. This thing, also known as "incident", appeared in the Tang Dynasty and was popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
You must know that most of the traditional women's clothing styles are relatively fat and bulging when the wind blows, so you have to use something to suppress them. If you don't use small objects to suppress it, if the wind blows a woman's clothes, it is not a lot of amorous things in ancient times, but it is regarded as a faux pass and debauchery. The heavy silver placket can just hold down the light clothes, which is an ornament that has both a decorative effect and a practical effect of fixing the placket, which slowly evolves into a placket.
Blue glazed placket
The old silver dot emerald tassel pressed placket
Oriental brooch
Women in the Qing Dynasty generally hung it on the second button on the right side of the cheongsam, as an ornament, do you think that the placket is quite similar to the brooch of the West? In fact, the placket can be called the Oriental brooch.
The placket in "The Legend of Ruyi".
The basic shape of the placket is the upper, middle and lower three parts of the device, the upper end is a single silver chain with a hook, can also be simply woven with silk thread, just can be hung on the second button on the right chest; the middle part is the main part of the event, called the "event press", the body is larger, the lower end is decorated with a silver chain with small pieces of silverware, bells or tassels.
The placket can not only make the clothes smooth, but also reflect the beauty of people's manners. In addition, when people walk, the pendants on the placket touch each other, making a soft, delicate and pleasant sound, which is pleasant to hear.
The placket in "The Legend of Ruyi".
Yang Zhishui's work "New Evidence of Ancient Poetry and Famous Objects" has a detailed study of the placket. The upper end is tied to the buckle on the chest with a silver chain, and in the middle is the "event press" made of silver, ivory, jadeite, agate, etc., carved into the shape of cicadas, bats, fish, peonies, larks, etc., symbolizing beautiful meanings. Under the silver chain decorated with knives, guns, swords, halberds, tweezers, tooth picking hooks, ear digging spoons, powder boxes and other small pieces of silverware, less three, more nine, five kinds of decoration is more common, called "five things to press the placket", and some are only decorated with bells or tassels.
Now that Qing court dramas are prevalent, all the "little masters" must also be interested in wearing a placket, but is there still a lack of clothes that can wear a placket?