The Yellow Emperor's pursuit of new clothes was no less than that of the emperor in Hans Christian Andersen's book. Of course, our old ancestor is the pursuit of brand new clothes, because the clothes are said to be his old man invented, before this is estimated that everyone is still wearing leaves. Unhappy with this, the Yellow Emperor began his quest for clothes, and judging by the inventions of some of the people around him, you'll see that a lot of effort was put into making a new style of clothes.
First his daughter-in-law, Rayon, invented sericulture, which led to thread, then his minister, Bo Yu, invented the loom (see the Huainanzi, which also says he directly invented the garment), and thread led to cloth, followed by his minister, Liu Hai, who invented needles. Liu Hai was originally best known for his image of playing with the golden toad, but he is also worshipped as the ancestor of the needle maker in folklore.
For example, in the 51st year of the Kangxi period, the Record of the Re-establishment of the Temple of the Needle Ancestor Liu Xianweng says that Liu Hai was a minister under the Yellow Emperor, and that he invented the needle for sewing and the needle for acupuncture, and helped the Yellow Emperor to make clothes. With cloth and needles, Bo Yu, who invented the loom, made the upper garment, and Hu Cao, another minister, made the lower garment. Then the Yellow Emperor gathered them together - and put them on his body - and finally wore his new clothes.
Of course, Huang Di his old man did not like the stupid emperor for the clothes and delayed work, our old ancestor put on a new suit, the work did not fall, out of the war Yandi, fight Chiyu grabbed the territory without prejudice, piggybacking on the hand also wrote a book "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine", although it was later confirmed that it is a generation of the pen, but who cares, as with the clothes, what Beryu as clothes, Hucao do clothing, the yellow emperor to the The first time he wore it on his body, the right of invention was his old man, and Bo Yu Hu Cao was just a supplier.
Sima Qian said, "The Yellow Emperor's clothes and the rule of the world" is the image of the Yellow Emperor and his new clothes for the perfect unity. But there is one thing that Sima Qian did not explicitly say, that is, what is the real purpose of the Yellow Emperor to make clothes? In Sima Qian's time, the legend of the Yellow Emperor appeared. In the Records of the Grand Historian, Gongsun Qing said to Emperor Wu: "The Yellow Emperor fought a war while learning about immortality, and eventually a dragon flew down from the sky and took the Yellow Emperor away." So the Yellow Emperor's purpose of making clothes was similar to Liu Cong's, to befriend the immortals.
According to the story, Emperor Wu of Han should have immediately ordered to seek very light clothes in case the immortals summoned him, but instead of doing so, Emperor Wu of Han exclaimed, "If I can become an immortal, I will take off my concubines and children as if they were shoes." ?
Why did Han Wudi compare it to taking off his shoes, he probably learned that becoming immortal has little to do with clothes, and that even the best clothes in the mortal world have to be taken off. Gongsun Qing, though he doesn't mention this detail here, later asked Han Wudi when he arrived at the mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor, "Didn't he ascend to heaven and become immortal? Why is his tomb still here?" Then a square priest explained to Han Wu Di, "The Yellow Emperor became immortal and left, and what is buried here is his robe."
That is to say, the Yellow Emperor went to so much trouble to invent clothes that he still stripped naked before ascending to heaven and eventually stayed on earth.
Why? It's because clothes in heaven are not at all the same thing as clothes in the mortal world.
If the clothes in heaven are the same thing as the clothes on earth, then since clothes were invented by the Yellow Emperor, people before the Yellow Emperor should not have had clothes to wear. There was a novel in the Qing Dynasty called "Bean Pavilion Gossip", which had a spammer, Chen Zhaichang, who raised such a doubt that gods like the Jade Emperor were before the Yellow Emperor, so didn't the Jade Emperor have any clothes to wear? But why do the statues in the temple all look like coronets and crowns?
He is confusing the difference between mortal clothes and immortal clothes. Even on earth, the rich and the poor wear different clothes, the rich wear Versace and the poor wear stall goods. Not to mention that the gods are high up in the world, the difference between them, and how can they be described as poor or rich.
The gods look at the clothes of mortals, the first feeling is certainly heavy, the Tang Dynasty poet Jia Zhi Xue Yaoying (Prime Minister Yuan Zai's concubine), said that she "dance timid baht clothes heavy, smile suspected that the peach face open." He said that her body was so light that even a six-baht garment was too heavy for her, which was a clear compliment that she was an immortal. And then, "I know that Emperor Cheng of Han Dynasty has built a platform to avoid the wind." This is comparing Xue Yaoying to Zhao Feiyan of Emperor Han Chengdi.
She was famous for her light body, so light that she could dance on the palm of her hand, so light that the wind could blow her away, and in order to protect her, Emperor Cheng of Han built the Seven Treasures Wind-Sheltering Platform. In "Liaozhai Zhiyi - Princess Yunluo", the fairy Princess Yunluo said that Zhao Feiyan was just a servant girl of her ninth sister. A maidservant to the earth is still so, Yunluo Princess such a fairy is even lighter, her husband made her a new dress, she wore a little can not stand, said: "Dusty things, a few to the pressure of the bone into the labor." --pressing me so much I couldn't stand it.
Heavy natural look clumsy, so the gods look at the second feeling of mortal clothes is certainly is ugly, "immortal biography gleaned" on a "Xu Laoweng" story, said the Tang Dynasty general Zhang Qiu and Qiong's subordinates there is a soldier surnamed Liou went to Tubo on business, and the result is never returned. His wife, Li, waited for three years, and then one day a man named Pei came from nowhere and lived with Li.
And Zhang Qiu and Qiong at this time also learned of Li's beauty, they want to take Li's own, he let his wife organized a big PARTY, invited Chengdu leaders at all levels of the wives to participate in this Li's naturally also in the list of invitations. Before Li went to put the best clothes on, the result of this Pei Sanggong is very disdainful, said: "Mortal clothes, the most beautiful is just so." Turning back to his servant, he said, "Bring her the third set of clothes in the chest and put them on." Li said, "Why don't you take the first set?" Sage Pei said, "These are the clothes of a god, the third set is already bright enough to blind them."
Sure enough, as soon as Li arrived at the scene wearing this set of clothes, she immediately shocked the audience. Zhang Qiu and Qiong at this time also do not think of beauty, he wants Li to take off the clothes (the real version of the buy box to return the pearl), directly to Li Longji. At the same time and then go to look for that Pei Xianggong has disappeared, and then many inquiries only to know that the surname Pei is the second female immortal in the sky on the first lady's wardrobe officer, stole the first lady's clothes down to the world.
From the disdainful tone of this wardrobe officer, we know how ugly the earthly clothes are in the eyes of the fairies, it is said that when human beings think, God laughs, and from the point of view of the clothes, human beings are dressed, the female fairies skimmed their lips. Of course the light ugly also tolerated, closed eyes not to see is also, the most let the gods can not stand is stink.
"Bo Yi Zhi" in a legendary story "Yin Hidden Guest", said a family called Yin Hidden Guest well, has been dug for two years did not dig out the water, this Yin Hidden Guest, but like a fool not abandoned not give up, continue to dig, digging digging, suddenly heard the sound of chickens and dogs, see the side of a stone cave, into the cave, it went to a fairyland: "Terraced Immortal Kingdom. " The two of them went in just to the door, was stopped by the guards, and then saw a group of people pinching their noses and ran over and said, "How so stinky ah." The guards quickly led the two of them to a bath and a good washing of their clothes.
Maybe some people will say, these two are workers digging wells, belong to the blue collar, body sweat odor that is normal. Well, we can look at the "Codified Records" in another Tang legend story "Songyue married daughter", the protagonist of this story a called Tian Miao a called Deng Shao, are then the imperial capital of Chang'an civil servants. On August 15 of this year the two rode horses and brought wine, trying to find a place to enjoy the moon and drink wine, from this point of view, the two men are still literary young people, must be very sophisticated.
There was certainly no odor of sweat on their bodies. These two men were invited by a passing god to attend the wedding of a goddess, and at the banquet the two men paid a visit to the Queen Mother of the West, only to have the Queen Mother of the West say, "Though these two men know how to be polite, their bodies stink to high heaven. The two of them cannot be allowed to come near the newlyweds."
It is because of these shortcomings of our mortal clothes, so those who travel to the earth on business trips to the gods and goddesses are not too careful about wearing clothes, are like Jigong dressed in rags, as if unkempt, in fact, they can not stand the mortal clothes, ah, once they put on the clothes of the heavenly court, that can be very careful. The immortal biography of picking up the pieces - Sishang Jun, a man met the Sishang Jun, see him wearing tattered clothes, and a bit of pity.
But when he was invited to his home, he was ashamed to see that he had more than thirty servants and was dressed in luxurious clothes. Sishang Jun is still just a man, if it is a woman, the clothes have to carry all kinds of decorations, "Gleanings" there is a bird called the hidden pearl bird, every time you fly to spit out a lot of pearls, very lightweight but also very gorgeous, in the sun and the moon glittering. Immortals use them to decorate their clothes.