Weighing 49 grams! Is this a base layer or outer wear?

Today, let’s get to know

Plain yarn single dress (straight hem)

Layering + hazy beauty

Fashion style of noble ladies in the Han Dynasty

Plain yarn single dress (straight hem)

Unearthed from Mawangdui Han Tomb No. 1 in Changsha, Hunan

Its owner is

Lady Xin Zhui, the wife of Li Cang, the Prime Minister of Changsha in the Western Han Dynasty

Undyed silk yarn

Made into a single layer of thin clothing without lining

Complements the beauty of Lady Xin Zhui

This piece of clothing weighs 49 grams

If you remove the velvet brocade edges on the cuffs and collar

Only 40.2 grams left

What is this concept↓↓↓

Two pieces of plain gauze clothes unearthed from Mawangdui

One straight hem, one curved hem

The straight hem is the best preserved

So light and elegant

Some people speculate that this is a piece of underwear of Mrs. Xin Zhui

However, most scholars believe

It was probably worn over embroidered clothing.

Cover the gorgeous patterns with a layer of tulle

In addition to increasing the sense of layering

Hazy beauty and mystery

Create a unique Hanfu fashion

Lightweight and translucent

It took more than 30 years to make a "high imitation"

Plain yarn single clothes are not only light

And the light transmittance reaches 75%

Fold the clothes in ten layers and place them on newspapers

You can still see the text and pictures above

This is mainly due to its material

The three-sleeping silkworm cultivated in the Han Dynasty

Compared with modern silkworms

The silk is thinner

Measured in silk denier units

Only 10.2 to 11.3 denier

(The smaller the denier, the finer the silk)

Today, the fineness of the highest-grade silk fabrics is

It also takes about 14 days

This is mainly because

Modern silkworms are stronger and fatter

The silk produced is thicker and the yield is greater

So much so that the cultural relics protection department wants to "copy" a plain gauze dress

We must start with silkworm rearing

(Sleeping refers to the process of silkworms sleeping and molting during growth.

The size of the silkworm will grow bigger and the silk will become thicker.)

1980s

Comprehensive consideration from aspects such as cultural relics preservation and cultural inheritance

State Administration of Cultural Heritage

Commissioned Nanjing Yunjin Research Institute

Imitation of plain yarn single clothes

But the imitation products are more than 50 grams

Later, the copy team

A group of thin three-sleeping silkworms were specially cultivated

It was not until 2019 that the first imitation was made.

A plain yarn single garment weighing about 49 grams

△Comparison between the imitation plain yarn single garment and the original

Not just beauty!

It is the crystallization of agriculture, industry and art.

Plain yarn single clothes use domestic silk

This shows that people were able to raise silkworms at that time.

Silk is fine and uniform

This shows that the reeling technology is relatively mature

Even gaps in plain yarn

It also shows the development level of spinning and looms at that time.

Raising silkworms, planting mulberry trees, extracting silk, making looms and making clothes

Every step is wisdom and experience

and the combination of creativity

Agriculture, industry and art collide

Crystallized into this plain yarn dress

The silk of silkworms weaves through the warp and weft

Not only weaving a graceful dress

It also condenses into a unique temperament of a nation

Along the Silk Road

Let the world know the profound Chinese culture