Chapter 652 is of far-reaching significance
Zhao Yu didn't expect that the military uniform he 'designed' would encounter a problem that was not a problem at all in modern times, and a hair that he had never taken to heart actually annoyed him. He knows that Confucianism has been deeply rooted in the hearts www.biquge.info of the people, and they can fight for the problem of the left and the right, and the fall of the Ming Dynasty is for the hair of countless Han people, which is a bit incredible in the eyes of modern people.
Of course, hair is constantly growing, although there is a saying, but it is not that the ancients did not cut hair, in the Great Song Dynasty there was a barber association called the Pure Hair Society, and they did the work of 'combing and shaving'. To put it simply, ancient men's haircuts are similar to modern women's haircuts. A beard is the same as hair, but a beard can be twisted. If you really shave yourself, let alone the Queen Mother, even those ministers have to fight to the end with themselves, and it's really not worth it for this little thing.
But if you want to change the military hat 'design' for this reason, Zhao Yu is really unwilling, he stands in front of the bronze mirror and puts his hair up for a while, and then spreads it out, but no matter how he looks at it, he looks like a group of defeated soldiers with untidy appearance. In order to adapt to this hat, he even combed a mustache on the back of his head like a female soldier in his previous life, but it was still difficult for him to accept both visually and psychologically.
"If I can go back, I won't be able to watch costume films again!" Zhao Hao fiddled with his hair and said hatefully. In fact, in ancient times, men's hair buns were very particular, there were no half-bundled and half-scattered adults, and the children's words were because the hair of the "drooping child" was too short to comb up, and the back half could be scattered.
And the real ancient men's hairstyle can't be as standard as I imagined, that is, the hair around is meticulously coiled in the center, including the back, you must know that there are two reasons: the parents of the body's hair and skin, the hair that grows can't be shaved off often, and the ordinary people don't have the leisure time to make the hair regular, it's almost coiled up, and the hair in the back is not exposed to miscellaneous hair, but it is impossible for everyone to pretend to be cool and wear their hair loose,
It's the homeless people on the rivers and lakes, or some of the guys called rangers, who are lazy or have no one to clean up for them, so they are discarded and dashing. In the same period, some people may have higher buns on them, some lower ones, some wrapped in linen, and some tied with strips of cloth. The ones scattered into a ponytail are either prisoners or beggars, not the hairstyles of heroes and handsome men.
"Official, how about letting the slaves and maids try?" Seeing that the little emperor was still not satisfied after trying for a long time, he threw the comb aside in annoyance, Su Lan said softly.
"Okay, you can try it!" Zhao Yu nodded a little helplessly, and kept chattering, "It's inconvenient to comb such long hair on weekdays, and it takes time, and when it comes to fighting, it's inconvenient to bandage your head if you are injured." And when you are out fighting, where you have time to freshen up often, if you don't get it right, you will grow lice and spread diseases. It's not as easy and hygienic as shaving short hair, but you can let the old master Confucius, who doesn't touch his hands with spring water, say a word, so that men all over the world have long hair......"
"Official, what do you think?" As she spoke, Su Lan had already finished combing her words.
"Hey, it's still my sister's dexterity, it looks good!" Zhao Hao saw that his hair had been smoothed out a lot, and he shook his head to look left and right, and couldn't help but praise.
"Official, try wearing a hat again!" Su Lan held his hat and said.
"Good!" Zhao Hao put on his hat, and Su Lan asked people to take a mirror so that His Majesty could see the situation at the back of his head, and then saw that neither the top of his head nor the back of his head were swollen, and he couldn't help but praise him.
"It's good that the housekeeper is happy!" Su Lan smiled with a sigh of relief.
"Sister Su, it's good to teach me to comb!" Zhao Yu turned his face for a while.
"The official family has its own slaves and maids to serve, so why do you need to take care of your own hair? Is the slave doing something wrong? Su Lan's face darkened.
"Sister Su thinks too much, this kind of bun will be the standard style of the soldiers in the army, I have someone to serve, but where can so many soldiers help them comb their hair!" Zhao Hao said with a smile.
"Official, the slave is wrong!" Only then did Su Lan understand what the little emperor meant, and hurriedly admitted his mistake.
Zhao Hao waved his hand and called a small yellow door, asking him to spread his hair, and Su Lan combed his hair in a bun. He looked at it and roughly understood, he first gathered the hair on the top and sides of his head, braided it into a flat braid, and then fixed it with a short hairpin at the back of his head, so that it would no longer look so bloated, and it would not look so abrupt when he wore a hat.
"Sister Su, can the process of combing be simpler and faster?" Zhao Hao roughly estimated the time, and it took about two minutes to look at the back of Xiao Huangmen's head, touch his chin, and say.
"The slave and maid try again, but what does the official family want to do so quickly?" Su Lan nodded, and asked while opening the hair of the little yellow door.
"Haven't you heard of the line between life and death? When fighting, a few breaths of time can decide a person's life and death, or even the defeat of a battle, so everything a soldier does must be completed in the shortest time and the fastest speed. Zhao Hao smiled.
"Oh, it turns out that it's a matter of life and death!" Su Lan understood the reason, and she was more careful, disassembling and braiding Xiao Huangmen's hair, trying to find the most effective method. After some hard work, she simplified the steps into six steps, and it only took about half a minute to comb it out, and Zhao Yu could see it.
"From now on, this will be called Su's bun!" Zhao Yu understood, so he tried to braid his hair by himself. He hadn't tinkered with this since he came into this world, and it was still very difficult for him to comb his hair with his hands behind his back and feel it, but he wasn't too stupid, and he could get it in under a minute after a few times. He believed that as long as he practiced more, he would definitely be able to get faster and faster, and said to Su Lan with a smile.
"Don't dare to be a slave, it's all the credit of the official family!" Su Lan chuckled and saluted, obviously happy to be able to help His Majesty.
"I have to write down the method of braiding and combing my hair bun, and I want to draw a picture and add it to the regulations, and this will be the standard hair bun for our soldiers in the Great Song Dynasty army in the future!" Zhao Yu took the pen and wrote down the process, drew a few more sketches, and marked them as 'Su's Bun', and then gave up.
"Official, this military uniform belongs to the navy, do you want to try it!" Su Lan unwrapped another package and said.
"yes, but this time you'll have to sew the signs together!" Zhao Yu dressed up and stinked in front of the mirror, stretched out his arms and legs, did squats, and turned a hollow heel, just to try if it would affect the movement, which stunned everyone.
"Official, but where are these sewn?" Su Lan looked at it and saw some small bits and pieces, but she didn't know how to arrange them.
"I'll take ......a look," Zhao Yu sat down and took off his coat, looked at it and pointed, "This is a cockade, and it should be sewn in this position; This is the collar badge, which is nailed to the tip of the collar; It was a badge, sewn on the left chest; And armbands, to be nailed here! ”
"Oh, slave gets it!" Su Lan watched the little emperor put those bits and pieces back in place one by one, nodded and said.
Zhao Hao calmed down from the excitement and carefully examined this military uniform, the style of the infantry army, the cavalry army, and the artillery army were basically the same, all of them were based on gray-green and linen as the material. The point of linen is that it has high strength, moisture absorption, heat conductivity, and air permeability, and the clothes made of it have the characteristics of breathability and refreshing, softness, comfort, washing, sunlight, antiseptic, and antibacterial. Of course, there are also shortcomings, that is, the appearance is rough, stiff, not as comfortable as cotton, with two chest pockets and two hem coat pockets, but it also makes the military uniform appear straight, capable, and masculine.
Of course, the main reason for the use of linen cloth is the cost problem, cotton cloth in this era is not to think about it, cotton has not been planted in a large area, only Jibei cloth is planted in Qiongzhou, the price is more expensive than gold, and there is no difference between military uniforms and gold armor. Silk is not a rare thing, but the price is also expensive, and it is not wear-resistant, so it can't help the training of being a soldier. And linen is the daily clothing of ordinary people, cheap, easy to obtain, easy to process, the important thing is to withstand the drill, and suitable for the hot climate of Qiongzhou, in addition to modern people are not all linen clothes for fashion?
"Official, this ...... This cockade is so beautiful! Su Lan picked up the cockade and looked at it for a moment.
"Of course, this is from hundreds of sketches drawn by the painters of the Drawing Bureau!" Zhao Hao said with a little pride. The cockade is in the shape of a shield, depicted with a golden dragon coiled around an anchor, with a majestic face, holding a sword in one claw and a spear in the other. The whole body is pressed with brass, and the cockade of the infantry army and the navy army is the same, except that the background color is red and the other is blue.
"Why doesn't the official add some decoration to this collar badge? It's not good to be bare! Su Lan asked again.
"Hehe, this is temporary, and we will talk about it after the relevant matters are agreed!" Zhao Yu glanced at him and said. The background color of this collar is divided according to the color of the official uniform, purple above the fourth rank, crimson above the sixth rank, and green in the past for the ninth grade. Of course, his idea was not to divide the ranks only on this basis, but to mark the ranks, but the matters involved were so important that no final decision had been made.
"Official, this navy uniform has been completed, but did Director Zhou remember the size of the official's clothes wrongly, the trouser legs are fat, but the trouser legs are small?" Su Lan quickly sewed everything that should be sewn with her hands and feet, lifted her pants up, and gestured behind the little emperor and said suspiciously.
"That's right, that's how it is, there's something clever about it!" Zhao Yu took the pants, knotted the two trouser legs, shook them violently in the air, and then quickly tightened the cuffs of the trousers, as if there was an extra airbag in his hand, he pointed and said.
"Oh, what's the use of that?" Su Lan was taken aback, and looked at it and was still puzzled.
"Of course it's a life-saving ......," Zhao Hao said with a smile. The naval uniforms of all countries in the modern world are basically born from the British Navy, of course, not only beautiful, but have many practical meanings and military Chinese inheritance.
Sailor uniform is one of the most distinctive clothing of naval soldiers, especially the sailor uniform has basically formed the international customary style, usually white, blue, the top is pullover, there is a shawl, the blue shawl and cuffs have several white lines; The pants are open on the side and the cuff is hypertrophied. Underwear, usually a white and blue striped shirt, commonly known as a navy shirt, also known as a sea soul shirt. The meaning of the sea soul shirt is the vast sea and blue sky, and the sailors wear the sea soul shirt to look more energetic. This "paradigm" is the result of many years of practice of life at sea.
Sailors often came and went in and out of cramped cabins, and the clothing requirements were neat and convenient, so the jackets were generally pullovers. The pullover jacket is tucked into the waistband of the trousers to avoid hanging on the clothes when going up and down the gangway, in and out of the hatch. In order to avoid irritation of the throat by the collar and reduce vomiting, the tops of the sailor's uniform are collarless.
Sailors wear beanies, first, to prevent the ship from going for a ride with the brim of the hat during high-speed navigation, and second, to avoid the brim of the hat from damaging the precise instruments and equipment and the inconvenience caused to observation when using observation instruments. Some say that the streamer on the back of the sailor's hat was to test the direction of the wind, but Zhao Yu prefers to believe that it is to commemorate the naval commander Nelson, who commanded the British fleet to defeat the combined French and Spanish fleets in the naval battle of Cape Trafalgar and was seriously wounded and died.
The shawl of the jacket was used as a "shoulder pad" in the past, and it was popular for men to grow long hair in ancient times, while sailors liked to comb their long hair into braids in order to adapt to life at sea. The oily braids often stained the sailors' clothing, so they draped a square scarf over their shoulders to clean it, which gradually evolved into an integral part of the sailor's jacket style. In modern times, it has become an ornament, but it still has use value even now.
The trousers are the most distinctive, the trousers are open on the side, which is convenient for climbing the mast in the sailing era. There are three main considerations for hypertrophy of the trousers: first, it can cover the boots and prevent water splashing; Second, it is easy to scratch up when washing the deck; The third is to go to the sea to save life and retreat quickly, take off the pants and tie the trousers tightly, and fill the air with an emergency floating air bag. And there are allusions to this.
The trousers of the military officers on the naval ships of various countries are different from other arms, and their style is close to that of women, with large trouser legs and thin legs, and no opening in the front. This is a story from the American Revolutionary War, when a British Navy battleship invaded a North American port, and a sailor deserted to spend the night at his girlfriend's house on shore. In the middle of the night, the North American militia attacked the British army, and the sailor hurried back to the ship, but mistakenly wore his girlfriend's work pants.
That night, the battleship was sunk, and the sailor jumped into the sea and shook off his pants and inflated them, and then grabbed the hem and waist of his trousers to make an airbag, and was rescued after floating on this airbag all night, and he was the only one on the ship. The large hem of the trousers also helps the sailors to quickly take off their pants after falling into the water, and they don't even have to take off their shoes. It was because of this example that the British Navy decided to issue new sailors' pants with large trouser legs, and the navies of other countries followed suit, forming what it is today.
"Your Majesty is really interested!"
"Yo, why are the two gentlemen here!" Just as Zhao Yu was showing off in front of a group of people and talking about the value of this sailor uniform, he suddenly heard someone talking, turned his head and said......