{"id":12502,"date":"2019-11-22T16:08:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/?p=12502"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:08:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:08:14","slug":"dragon-robe-long-pao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/dragon-robe-long-pao\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Robe (\u9f99\u888d)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">The robe embroidered with dragon patterns was made for the exclusive use of an emperor during the<span>&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Qing dynasty<\/strong>(\u6e05\u671d Q\u012bngch&aacute;o). The ritual of embroidering dragon patterns on the emperor&#8217;s robe, however, dates back to as early as the Zhou Dynasty (11th century-256 B.C.).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">During the Yuan and Ming, the emperors were already wearing robes graced with dragon patterns, but it was not until the Qing that they were named<span>&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&ldquo;dragon robes&rdquo;<\/strong>(\u9f99\u888d l&oacute;ngp&aacute;o) and became part of the official attire system. A dragon robe is either yellow or apricot-yellow dragons in color, and embroidered with nine yellow dragons and five-hued auspicious cloud patterns. The clouds are interlaced with twelve other patterns&mdash;the sun, the moon and stars (representing the light of the throne), mountains (syno<em><\/em>nymous to stability to changes) auspicious bird (denoting elegance and beauty) water reeds (which represent purity and cleanness), and fire (meaning light).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">According to imperial Qing rituals, the emperor&#8217;s dragon robe was a kind of auspicious attire for lower-grade celebrations and ceremonies&mdash;it as by no means the highest grade of imperial attire. The dragon robe that was passed down from one emperor to another is<strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">embroidered<\/strong>(\u7ee3 xi&ugrave;) with a dragon on the front and the back, before or behind the knees, on the shoulders, and on the lining of the chest. Thus a total of nine dragons are embroidered on a dragon robe. Observed from the front or behind it, five dragons could be seen at a glance, because in Chinese tradition the figures nine and five tallied with the dignity of the throne.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1127383862\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The robe embroidered with dragon patterns was made for the exclusive use of an emperor during the&nbsp; Qing dynasty(\u6e05\u671d Q\u012bngch&aacute;o). The ritual of embroidering dragon patterns on the emperor&#8217;s robe, however, dates back to as early as the Zhou Dynasty (11th century-256 B.C.).<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2861,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-clothing","category-chinese-culture"],"views":360,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}