<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="27" > imperial court officials are called "clothed beasts"</h1>
The word "dressed as a beast" is unknown to many people. In ancient times, if you want to know the other party's officials and officials, just look at what is embroidered on your clothes. The allusion of the clothed animals and animals has to be traced back to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty judged the rank of officials, look at the pattern embroidered on the clothes to understand, this is a bit similar to the stars of our current military uniforms, the more stars, the higher the level. In the Ming Dynasty, in order to clearly reflect the rank of officials, the clothes of civilian officials were embroidered with birds, and the clothes of military generals were embroidered with beasts, which was also the source of the clothed animals.
Not only that, but there is still a difference in rank between this bird and a walking beast, for example, a pint of civil official embroidery is a crane, which is a very sacred bird in our ancient Chinese culture, which represents longevity, but also represents an eternity, even chastity. The Nine Pins Civil Officer's body is embroidered with quail, which shows the difference in level, and the quail is a very common bird.
The warrior is also the same, and the beast embroidered on the body is also of a level. For example, a pint of martial arts embroidered is a qilin, the unicorn is not a real animal in our lives, but it is of noble status, known as the beast of auspiciousness, so the clothes are embroidered with the qilin, which means that this person is the highest status in the martial arts level. The Ninth Pin Warrior is embroidered with a seahorse, which, like a quail, is a very popular ordinary animal, so the level is also the lowest. Moreover, not only the birds and animals will have a difference in rank, but there is also a difference in this color, 1 to 4 products are big red, 5 to 7 products are cyan, which is a darker blue, 8 products, 9 products are green colors.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="30" > official uniforms are directly linked to official positions</h1>
Why are different animals embroidered on civilian officials and military generals? Do you have to have different colors in different levels?
To sort out the grades!
In fact, this is also a need for the etiquette norms of ancient Chinese feudal dynasties. For example, the imperial court is going to meet, the emperor gathers manchu civil and military or officials of various levels to hold a meeting together, can not be crowded together, must be lined up a "seat order" Of course, this seat does not mean really sitting, the ancient dynasty had to stand, the position where everyone stood was determined according to the pattern on the clothes: a look at the embroidered on the body is a bird, to stand on the left, embroidered is a walking beast, then stand on the right, this is separated, wen and wu hundred officials stand in two rows each.
So how do the civil servants arrange the order? First according to the color: the front of the big red station, the middle is blue, the back is green, this is not one two three four five six seven eight nine rows open, and then according to the animal pattern, or the level of birds or beasts neatly arranged, what level you should stand, what queue you stand, at a glance, it is easy to know where you should stand.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="32" > why it became a derogatory term</h1>
Cloaked beasts were originally a positive word, and the original meaning of the cloaked beasts was to refer to the officials of the imperial court, and these people were all going to the imperial court and meeting the emperor. When did that become a derogatory term? This is still related to the Ming Dynasty, and in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, whether it is a local official or a court official, politics is too corrupt. Any dynasty that begins to be corrupt, the attitude of officials to the people is different, not only corrupt but also fish and meat townspeople, wanton expropriation, this behavior, just like the beast, so the people call it: wearing human clothes, but behaving like beasts! Since then, the cloaked beast has begun to become an insult, and this insult has gradually formed a tradition, and later it has been included in the sea of words, and this cloaked beast has become a derogatory term, but its source is really a positive word, and the change of words is really related to historical development.
Therefore, in the future, someone will say "xx is a dressed beast" and tell him this story first!