Post Date April, 15 2023
In our opinion, green is a vibrant color. But in China's thousands of years of history, green has always been disliked and even become a representative of low status and low status.
In the eyes of ancient people, yellow was the true color because, like red and blue, it can be directly dyed with flowers and grass. But green can only be mixed with yellow and blue, resulting in this impure and impure "intermediate color".
It can also be seen from the color setting of ancient official uniforms that green holds a significant position in people's hearts. Purple robes of grade three or above, Fei (red) robes of grade five or above, and various green robes of grade six or below.
Our familiar Bai Juyi cried when he was demoted:
Who is crying the most in the seat? Sima Qingshan in Jiangzhou is wet
——Pipa Xing
The tearful green shirt is not just an ordinary garment, but a green robe symbolizing one's demotion to a nine-grade sesame official.
In this way, green became the representative color of "inferior" and was also the clothing color that ancient people looked down upon the most and were unwilling to try. In the Tang Dynasty, green even became a spiritual torment. At that time, officials did not use sticks to punish prisoners, but directly made them wear green headscarves as a form of humiliation and torture.
However, at this time, the green headscarf was still green, just because it was annoying. The person who truly gave the green headscarf a special meaning was not the old king next door, but the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang.
After Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang recaptured the Central Plains, he demanded strict clothing from the people. Clear and strict regulations have been made for the style, color, pattern, and height of the slit, from the Crown Prince, civil and military officials, to the common people.
The most important thing is for men who have married prostitutes to wear green scarves, red waistbands, and pigskin boots with fur on their feet. Because Zhu Yuanzhang believed that letting his woman sell herself must be a lazy and lazy man!
In this way, both the red belt and the green headscarf have special meanings.
