(1) Clothing

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, mulberry planting and silkworm breeding became a scale early, although silk is a big industry, but ordinary people can not afford to wear silk and satin.

The material of ordinary people's clothes is cotton and linen. However, it is quite good for most people to have a cotton dress close to their body, and it is quite good to put on a linen dress on the outside.

As for the poor, it should be a common phenomenon for the whole family to wear a pair of pants and a jacket, and whoever goes out will put them on and take them off when they get home.

The lower strata of the whole society are generally riddled with rags in winter, and the upper body is ** in summer, only covering up the ugly place.

I don't have anything to eat, where can I take care of clothes?

Of course, the clothing of the upper class of society is still very particular about the style, material and color, which is also historical, so I will not repeat it.

Here is just a brief introduction to the style of clothes, so as to understand the life of Liu Cong in the late Han Dynasty.

Single clothes: It is a single layer of clothing, without lining. There are many styles of single clothing, including long-sleeved, short-sleeved, and sleeveless.

Outer clothes: It is the outer clothes. At that time, people's outer clothes were generally like knee-length robes with lining.

Why do you want to wear a long coat? I don't know about other reasons, but there is one reason that cannot be denied, that is, there were no real pants to wear at that time, that is, pants were not popular.

There are shy spots on the lower body that need to be covered. How do you cover without pants? I had to wear a knee-length robe.

Hehe, there's no shyness below the knee.

The question about pants is also well documented, and it is not what hunters guess here.

At the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, there was no concept of pants, because some historical sources say that when Liu Bang met a certain historical celebrity, he was received by "Ji Fu".

What is Keifu? Just sit with your legs crossed.

This provoked the person who received him to be scolded after going out, scolding Liu Bang for being arrogant and disrespecting the sage.

At that time, people sat on their knees, just like the Japanese sit on tatami mats today.

Why do you sit like this? At that time, it was because I didn't have pants. Isn't kneeling and sitting without pants hiding your shame?

Liu Bang is not polite, well, when he meets celebrities, he doesn't kneel down! Isn't this an intentional effort to show off the organs in the crotch?

That's rudeness, is that thing casually lit on the countertop?

From this allusion, it can be inferred that although more than 400 years have passed by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the popularity of these pants is very problematic. So the average person may not necessarily have pants to wear.

Since you don't have pants to wear, you can do it in the summer, but what about in the winter?

Judging from the terracotta figurines of the year and month unearthed, the lower limbs of people at that time generally used socks to keep warm, put socks on from the feet, pull them above the knees, and then tie them with straps, so that the problem of keeping warm below the knees was solved.

As for the knee above the belly and eyes, how to solve the problem of keeping warm in this area?

It is estimated that it is like the Japanese sumo wrestlers, with a piece of cloth wrapped indiscriminately, which not only hides the ugliness, but also keeps warm.

From this, another idea was derived, the Japanese sat posture and the way of covering their ugliness were all learned from the Central Plains. Unfortunately, there was no intellectual property protection at that time, otherwise, a protection fee could have been charged.

Now that the conversation is out of the way, let's go back to the style of clothes. The style of clothes in the late Han Dynasty was basically like this, so when Liu Cong crossed to the north gate of Xiangyang City, he found that he and the Jingzhou soldiers were wearing long clothes, so he was puzzled, and he was puzzled for a long time before he figured it out.

Well, there is another point that needs to be explained, in the late Han Dynasty, not only were pants not popularized, but buttons were not invented, so no matter whether the clothes were long or short, they were all long and short.

Ahem, I forgot, in fact, I don't need to introduce it, I want to know about the costumes of the people in the late Han Dynasty, just go and see the dress of the Taoist priests.

Taoism continued from the Han Dynasty, and the clothing of the Taoists basically remained unchanged.

Hehehe, but there will definitely be a little change, and this change needs not be detailed, because people now wear shorts and long pants.

(2) Meals

The Central Plains is mainly the Yellow River Basin, and the earliest crop is probably millet.

Because the natural disasters in the Yellow River basin are mainly drought, millet is the most drought-tolerant, so millet was the main food in this area in ancient times.

In fact, there are several types of millet, such as millet and millet.

However, the yield of millet is very low, and in the event of natural disasters, there is often no harvest.

Therefore, the Yellow River valley is prone to famine, a phenomenon that is not uncommon in history books.

In addition to millet, other crops include wheat, beans, and various beans such as cowpeas and mung beans, which are also the main crops in the Central Plains.

There are many varieties of fruit and vegetable crops, and after Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, alfalfa, pomegranate, shallots and other fruit and vegetable varieties were introduced into the mainland for planting, which further enriched the varieties of agricultural crops in the mainland.

At that time, sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, peanuts and other crops had not yet been introduced, so until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the crops in the Yellow River Basin were still mainly listed above.

At this time, although there were already large areas of rice cultivation in the Yangtze River and Pearl River basins, most of the southern parts were still in the uncultivated, so the total rice production was not objective.

Liu Cong traveled back to that era, and people's food was made from these crops.

Because of natural disasters for many years** and frequent wars, eating bran vegetables has been a common meal in the Central Plains since ancient times.

By the time Cao Cao, Lu Bu, Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shao were rampant in the Central Plains, because of the serious shortage of military rations, some battles had to be stopped halfway.

It is said that some armies also relied on picking mulberries to satisfy their hunger.

When Yuan Shu was fighting in Yangzhou, because there was no food to eat, he ordered the soldiers to strip naked and go down to the river to touch the river mussels to cook soup to satisfy hunger.

Hahaha, the hardships at that time can be imagined.

So by the time Liu Cong crossed over, Cao Cao had promoted the practice of reclamation of barren tuntian more than ten years ago. It is said that the problem of military rations has been well solved.

The food of this period was mainly wheat porridge, millet porridge, rice porridge. These porridges are dry rice when they are boiled for a long time, and thin porridge when they are added with more water.

In order to satisfy their hunger, poor families often add more vegetables, wild vegetables, and even bark and grass roots to their porridge.

At that time, stone grinding was not yet popular, and the grain eaten was generally peeled or crushed with a mortar.

The mortar is a stone nest and a stone pestle.

When it is time to hull and crush the grain, put the grain into the stone nest, and then use the stone pestle to pound the grain in the stone nest, and after a long time, the grain will be shelled or crushed.

Until now, when the southern folk want to make some rare food, they still have to use the mortar to make raw materials.

These production processes are often broadcast on television.

If you look back on such a scene, you will think of the ancient Stone Age, which shows how difficult people's lives were.

Because it relies on such stone tools to process grain, the main food of people in the late Eastern Han Dynasty is wheat porridge, rice porridge, millet porridge and so on. Ordinary people can't even eat such porridge food, so they have to use bran grass root bark to satisfy their hunger.

Besides, at that time, fermentation bacteria were not widely used, so it was impossible to have steamed buns or other foods.

(3) Housing.

Quite simply, there are caves, adobe houses, brick houses, shacks, etc.

There are tents on the steppe, and there are tents for the army's combat marching accommodations, etc.

Most of the inhabitants live in adobe thatched houses, and they know the taste of hot and cold, warm, damp, and dirty, and we can feel the tossing and turning taste of mosquitoes, bed bugs, lice, and fleas.

Cough! In ancient times, people lived like that, such as pigs, dogs, horses, and cows, how much difference was there?

(4) OK

The road is mainly on foot.

The means of transportation are mainly cattle and horses.

However, ordinary people can't enjoy the taste of transportation.

Once in a while, donkey riding is something that not everyone can experience.

Although there are also ox carts and horse-drawn carts, such a means of transportation can only be used by people with status.

People in the lower strata of society can only look at the dry spit.

Officers who fought were sometimes on horseback, but this was a senior officer. As for the junior officers, there is no way, and they have to march on their own two legs.

Wearing straw sandals and walking far and grinding out blood blisters, that is deserved, can you still not endure hardships as a soldier? It's the same thing when you're dead, it's not a big deal, let alone a few blood blisters!

Chariots existed, but not in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, it was in the Warring States period.

By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the population of the country was less than a few million, and the number of war horses in the country was unknown, where was there a carriage to sit on?