The Only Founding Monarch Of "White Robes" In Chinese History

More than one thousand years ago, the Western Xia Dynasty rose and ruled the Hexi region for 190 years. This minority regime was confronting Northern Song, Liao, Jin and Southern Song, and fought doggedly with the invincible Gen Gi Khan army. Xixia's contributions in writing, science and technology are commendable. In particular, its dress culture is a wonderful feature of the feudal society, and its founding monarch Li Yuanhao is more legendary. He is the only emperor in Chinese history who has been dressed in a white robe to ascend the throne.

Li Yuanhao, the hero of a generation

According to historical records, Li Yuanhao, the first emperor of the Western Xia Dynasty, was legendary at a very short time. He was born in the first year of song Jingde (1004), and was born five in the early May. When Li Yuanhao was a boy, he usually liked to wear white long sleeved clothes, wore black crowns, and wore bow and arrow. Li Yuanhao was riding on his own horse. Before he had two flag bearers to open his way, there were escort guards walking Zhang, Zhang Qing, and three covers.

The book of history reads: "Li Yuanhao is bold and resolute, who is good at painting and can create things." The circular surface is high accurate, five feet long. " Li Yuanhao has read books of poetry from his urine, especially to the book of war. He has always been fond of thinking and planning. He has always been good at thinking and planning, and he always has unique views on things. When Li Yuanhao was 24 years old (1028), he took the lead in the army, attacked the Uighur in the west, and broke through the Ganzhou (now Gansu Zhangye), and made outstanding achievements.

On the eleven day of October 1038, Li Yuanhao, 34 years old, officially ascended the throne of the throne. After his accession to the throne, Li Yuanhao formulated not only the general plan of governing the country, but also the reform of the official system, the military system, the improvement of rites and music, clothing and family names, and so on. Just like a literate household, such a character describes the founding monarch: "the rushing horses and goblets and the hunting of flags under the mountain of Helan"; the sound of the sound of the drum, the bell and the cry of the sound of the sound of the Qiang flute. Li Yuanhao has opened a brilliant chapter of a splendid ancient country.

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The only emperor in Chinese history who wore a white robe to ascend the throne.

Luo Wenbo, director of the Wuwei local chronicle compilation office, said that in 1038, Li Yuanhao was dressed in a white robe and ascended the throne with the support of his trusted minister Nori Nii and Yang Sheng Su. This is the only emperor in Chinese history who has been dressed in white robes.

Sun Shouling, an academic member of the Xixia research center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that the founder of the Western Xia Dynasty was the Qiang people of the party. This nation has the characteristics of boldness, simplicity, and Shangyi. At the same time, the people of this nation are brave in reform, bold in innovation, and able to absorb new things and have the spiritual characteristics of expanding. For example, the Qiang people in the party created their own characters. There are many ethnic groups in China's history, and their own political power has been established, but most of them do not have their own writing. Among them, Tibetan, Mongolian and so on. And Xixia language not only has many historical documents, but also is widely used. It has its own dictionary dictionaries, instrument contracts, Buddhist classics, Confucian classics, military codes, historiography, literary works, Oracle Oracle, and so on. In addition, the party members of the Qiang nationality attract attention to the culture of other nationalities on the basis of their own national culture. It not only absorbed the culture of the Han, Tubo, Uighur, Khitan, nychen and other ethnic groups, but also widely absorbed the Buddhist culture, so that Confucianism, Buddhism and culture soon took root in the nation and played a role. The application and popularization of astronomical calendar, metallurgical casting, engraving printing, civil engineering, water conservancy construction and other science and technology have made the social productive forces and economic and cultural development of the party and its people rapidly develop and improve.

Based on this, some experts and scholars who studied Xixia Culture believed that it was precisely because of the special national characteristics of this special nation that he broke the practice of other feudal emperors who had been wearing yellow robes for thousands of years, and went on to the altar of emperors with a detached white robe. This is a unique pioneering work in Chinese history.

In the Xixia state, from the upper class officials to the people in the west, they worship the white very much.

It is precisely because of Li Yuanhao, "the beginning of the white narrow shirt, felt the crown red Li, after the crown of the red knot." Therefore, in the Xixia state, from the top officials to the bottom, the people worship the white very much.

Sun Shouling said that the early party nationality nomadic in Northwest China, its costumes have the inherent characteristics of the nomadic people's "fur coat". During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the party members of the party were "dressed in fur, brown and covered with felt." After the move, the party also retained the traditional custom of wearing fur. Yuan Hao once said, "clothes, fur, animal husbandry, and nature." Later, with the frequent contacts between the party members and the Central Plains Dynasty, trade, employment and Han costumes were gradually accepted by the party leaders. In particular, the silk fabrics in the central plains are heavily impacted on the territory of the Chinese Communist Party through the age of bestowing and rewarding.

After taking the throne, Li Yuanhao formulated the dress system in the early Xia Dynasty in order to highlight the national characteristics, order baldness and spanform the crown of the Han Dynasty. In the same year, the Xixia dress system was established. Li Yuanhao made strict rules for the Royal costume, civilian clothes and the clothing of the common people. "Wen Zi Zhi tou, boots Wat, purple clothes, and Fei Yi; the military posts are crowns of gold crowns, silver crowns, black painted crowns, purple purple swirl, gold coated silver bands, vertical knots, conjones, knives, arrows, horses, saddles, red tassels, and cross cymbals. Casual clothes are embroidered with purple soap, blankets, flowers, twisted belts and girdle. The people are green and green.

Although the monarchs of the Xixia Dynasty after Li Yuanhao made some reforms to the Xixia dress system formulated by Yuan Hao, they did not change much. As for the fifth emperors in the Western Xia Dynasty, the Han costume took the leading position in Xixia. For example, the Yellow Dragon robes and the imperial crown used by emperors in the Song Dynasty were absorbed by the rulers of the Western Xia Dynasty. In the Xixia code, it is expressly stated that the colors and patterns of the Royal costumes should not be used by the officials and the people. The monks and laymen and men and women are forbidden to wear Shi Huang, Shi Hong, apricot yellow, embroidery and gold decorations. There are flowers in the sun, the moon and the original textile. There are dragon bodies on the day, the moon and the variegated clothes. From these regulations, it can be seen that the emperors and queens of Xixia changed their colors to yellow when they were dressed in dragon, sun and moon patterns.

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Xixia costumes are rich and colorful.

Xixia costumes are different from other dynasties' costumes. They have their own characteristics and styles.

From the frescoes exhibited at the Xixia Museum, we can see that the emperor wore a crown at the time, carved on the crown and decorated with gorgeous ornamentation. Wearing a jacket, embroidered and wide sleeved overcoat, next to skirt, waist belt. The queen wears a corolla or corolla, and a wide sleeved coat, with a covered knee, a hanging ribbon and ornaments. Especially in women's clothing, Yuan man Ma Zuchang wrote in the Hexi song: "in the west of Helan mountain, the female comb is eighteen high, and the root is dyed like light." In particular, Yuan Hao and Tsumano Liuji "wear gold to cloud crowns", do not allow others to follow suit. In some Western Xia literature, women's costumes are related to nouns, vests, hairpins, brocade, bracelets, pearls, Luo Luo, coral and so on. From this we can see that Xixia costumes are colorful.

In addition, Xixia costumes are also characterized by eclecticism. This is due to the strong influence of the Han nationality dress of the Central Plains after the relocation of the Qiang people. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Xiang people were still "dressed in brown and draped", but in the early Song Dynasty, they began to dress up. The styles of these Kimi costumes, from the crown, the head, the towel, the clothes, the vest, the vest, the jacket, the skirt, the robe and so on, mostly reflect the characteristics of the Han nationality's clothing. That is to say, the Han nationality clothing has become the mainstream clothing of the Western Xia Dynasty, and the clothing culture of the dangqiang people has deeply branded the Han culture. Besides, Xixia kingdom is located in the northwest frontier, and the costumes also have the characteristics of the northwest minority dress, that is, the characteristics of Hu clothing. At that time, there were many ethnic groups in the Western Xia Dynasty, such as Tubo, Uighur, Khitan, nychen and other ethnic minorities. The culture of Xixia and the cultures of the above nationalities interpenetrated and influenced each other.

In the words of the research experts, Xixia, the splendid and mysterious Dynasty, flourished and flourished in martial arts, its education was highly praised, its folk customs were magnificent, its clothes were rich and exquisite.