The origin of the green hat?

Originated from the management of ancient teaching workshops, their clothes must be green headscarves. It seems that Zhu Yuanzhang has clear regulations on this.

In Lang Ying's Seven Revised Manuscripts, there is such a description: "... people who call their wives adultery are called' green headscarves', and now people are entertaining, and their heads are covered with green towels ..." He Mengchun, who is a little later than Lang Ying, also wrote in "Winter Preface": "The system of teaching and visiting commanders' benevolence is often covered with green towels, which is used by other scholars."

Nan Fang Shuo's jokes reflect a more comprehensive fear:

"Green headscarf", "green hat" and "wearing a green hat" have been used to refer to husbands whose wives have cheated on each other since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This kind of address is not only scattered in novels, but also one of the addresses of ordinary people. In addition, there are many jokes about "cuckolding".

Contemporary scholars chris powell and Steve Linstead pointed out in Humor-Resistance and Control in Society that the real meaning of many jokes lies in reflecting fear, thus strengthening and reshaping the moral boundary and achieving the goal of social control. According to their theory, perhaps we can think that there are many jokes about "cuckolding" in China society, which reflects the phobia of having sex with his wife. Therefore, such jokes have the functions of social vigilance and social control.

So the name "green headscarf" should have originated from the Ming Dynasty. Musicians in the Ming Dynasty were a lowly profession, and it was stipulated that only green headscarves could be worn, so "green headscarves" became a symbol of lowly prostitutes. A wife raising a Han is of course equivalent to wearing a "green headscarf" in this industry.

However, it is not correct to think that the "green headscarf" originated in the Ming Dynasty. Because, as early as five years in the Yuan Dynasty, it was stipulated that "prostitutes wear purple soap shirts and horns." The parents and relatives of prostitutes wore blue headscarves, and what the Ming Dynasty did obviously inherited the Yuan system.

However, if we study the costumes, colors and class divisions in ancient China, we can find that the "green headscarf" in Yuan Dynasty was not invented from the wall. In earlier times, "towels" and "green" have always been the patents of the lower classes.

As far as "towel" is concerned, although it originated very early, it was the exclusive crown of civilians or untouchables until the Eastern Han Dynasty. Similar crowns were exhibited by "towel", such as "clothes" and "clothes" in the Han Dynasty. Head "and so on. Zhai Hao in the Qing Dynasty pointed out in Volume XII of Popular Edition that as far back as the Spring and Autumn Period, "those who have wives and daughters begging for food wrap their heads in green scarves, which is neither expensive nor cheap". Explain that the "green scarf" is early. In the Han Dynasty, there was a change from "towel" to "yang". When Yan Shigu commented on "Qing" mentioned in Hanshu (Biography of Dong Fangshuo) in the Tang Dynasty, he also said: "Qing" is a bitch's clothes. 」

Therefore, before the Eastern Han Dynasty, the literati class wore a "crown", while the "towel" could only be used for civilians or untouchables. At that time, the "green headscarf" was already exclusive to prostitutes' families. Umberto eco, a modern Italian symbolist, once studied the western color system and thought that although the same color words were used in every era, they could not refer to the same color. That is to say, ancient green and modern green cannot be the same.

So is China. The so-called "green" in the past probably refers to the natural green color of silk fabrics. It may be a kind of green that is green and dull, bleached by water and a little malnourished. No wonder it has become a special color for Park Jung Su people. The slave class in the Han Dynasty was called "Cang Tou" because the "towel" they wore was also this green color. The same is true in Europe.

Blue in the Middle Ages was different from today. It is a moss-like color, the color of the stone wall of the temple, so it is called "monk blue" in modern times.

So "green" is the lowest color in ancient China. Officials in the Tang Dynasty had robes, and the lowest rank was "green". Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem: "When we broke up, we were all thrown into the sea, and our waists were old and green." . "You can prove it.

It is precisely because the "green headscarf" is a humble costume that when Li Feng made the order of Yanling in the Tang Dynasty, he "made the official guilty and didn't punish him with a stick, but wrapped it in green to humiliate him, depending on the severity of the crime."

Based on the above arguments, we can see that the "green headscarf" has long been used by people, slaves or servants in Park Jung Su. Because of this, it began in the Yuan Dynasty and became the costume of male prostitutes. Calling a woman with an adulterous wife a "green scarf", "cuckold" or "cuckold" is the final result of this color tradition. Therefore, "green headscarf" and "green hat" have been upgraded from a clothing marking language to everyday language.