Different Kinds of Ancient Clothes

古代服饰的不同种类

Since remote ages, people usually wore different clothes on different occasions. So far as individual clothes was concerned, there were civilian¹ clothes,workingsuit,ceremonial dress. And there were different ceremonial dress on different ceremonial occasions—such as wedding dress, mourning apparel,etc. Different clothes were also worn in different weathers such as umbrella, parasols, alpine² rush rain capes⁴ and bamboo hats. The dress custom defined by different occasions also restrained people's behavior in their daily life. If people wore inappropriate,they might incurs⁵ blames for their in-consistency with customs. Changes occurred to the uses of this dress,such as a special rain cape³ and bamboo hats called suoyi and douli. The former used to be a rainproof cape,but later as it was mainly worn by fishermen, it gradually evolved into the career symbol of fishermen. The latter used to be a heat stroke proof utensils，later it was also used for rainproof.

自上古时代，人们通常在不同的场合穿不同的衣服。就个人的衣装而言，有便装、工作服、礼服。不同的场合有不同的礼服，如婚纱、孝衣等不同的服饰。在不同的天气也穿不同的衣服，如雨衣、遮阳服、龙须草雨披肩和竹斗笠。穿衣习惯由不同的场合决定，这也限制了人们在日常生活中的行为。如果人们穿着不合适，他们可能会招致指责。衣服会因其用途发生变化，例如作为一种特殊的雨披和竹帽，被称为蓑衣和斗笠。前者曾被用作是一个防雨斗篷，但后者因为主要是渔夫穿戴，它逐渐演变成渔民的职业生涯的象征。后者曾经是防中暑的器具，后来它也用于防雨。