1, headdress grade is poor

The harem in Qing Dynasty has been divided into eight grades: Empress (first class), Imperial concubine (first class), Imperial concubine (second class), Concubine (second class), Concubine (second class), Noble (seventh class), Diligent concubine (seventh class) and Wuji (tenth class).

2, the difference of clothes color:

Bright yellow is the most high-grade color in Qing dynasty costumes, which can only be enjoyed by emperors, queens, empresses and empresses. Bright yellow is a sacred and inviolable color above all clothes.

In the clothes of empresses, it is also very strict to distinguish grades by color. The gowns of the Empress Dowager, Empress and Princess are bright yellow, the Crown Prince and Princess are apricot yellow, and the Princess and Princess are golden yellow. The concubines with lower grades use the above colors, which belongs to trespassing.

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There are the following rules in the court: the crown of the empress dowager, empress, imperial concubine and imperial concubine is smoked with mink and decorated with Zhu Wei (a pattern); The color of the dragon robe is azurite with embroidery; The robe is bright yellow, and the lucky clothes of Prince Fujin and Prince Fujin are crowned with smoked minks and rubies on the top. Prince Fujin's auspicious clothes are embroidered with azurite.

Prince Fujin embroidered robes, which are fragrant in color and embroidered with nine pythons and five claws; From the first grade to the ninth grade, the wives of civil and military officials wear complementary clothes, all of which follow their husbands' grades, and the shape of the complementary clothes is square. In the late Qing dynasty, the official wife used round compensation. Yipin civil servants embroidered cranes; Second-class embroidered golden pheasant; Three embroidered peacocks; Four kinds of embroidered geese; Five-needle embroidered silver pheasant; Six embroidered egrets; Seven products embroidered chicken; Eight products embroidered quail; Nine-level uncultured embroidered magpie.

The military attache embroidered Kirin; Second-class embroidered lion; Sanpin embroidered leopard; Four products embroidered tiger; Five embroidered bears; Six or seven embroidery marks; Eight products embroidered rhinoceros; Nine stitches embroidered seahorse. Ladies with no taste wear sky-blue dresses.

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