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 civilian 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, alpine rush rain capes 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 incurs blames for their in-consistency with customs. Changes occurred to the uses of this dress,such as a special rain cape 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。