Chinese Traditional Wedding Dress
Chinese Traditional Funeral Dress
In traditional Chinese culture, the color for wedding is Red. White is for funeral. Today both traditional and western bridal ideas are being practiced.
The other day I saw someone replying to the empress of china’s photoset about how inaccurate for the two characters being dressed in white. Maybe because he saw this post, or maybe he saw some info online? anyway I want to make a clarification about why Chinese funeral dress is white.
White is just what it appears to be. Chinese wear clothes made of undyed fabric for funerals, no decoration, no pattern, no embroidery whatsoever. Some are like beige because of different fabric’s natural color. The fabrics are usually roughly made and not comfortable to wear.
As you might have seen, those costumes in teoc are white but with red and golden embroideries all over them.
I also read something like “Chinese emperor always wear yellow dragon robes”. That’s true if the emperor stays in the front court having meeting. When the emperor in the back palace he can wear anything. Also, yellow is not the only color for dragon robes in the history, there’re black very common, red and purple. Dragon is indeed a must for the pattern.