Drip, drip! Now that the crossing coordinates have been locked, let's choose Kyoto in the Heian period! In view of the fact that everyone is not here to suffer and suffer, the identity is to choose the princess or the young master and young lady in the royal family...... Good! Crossing is a success! Next, it seems that you gentlemen of good manners should enjoy the leisurely and elegant life of a gentleman. And all the ladies who are full of longing, it seems that it is time to pursue their own sweet romantic aiqing?

…… This one...... You'd better get dressed first!

You know, since ancient times, the Japanese have been one of the most good at tossing themselves, and even the Chinese who are also good at this set of red tape invented by them often feel a little overwhelmed.

And the nobles and nobles who are idle all day long are the people who can toss themselves the most in Japan. Just taking the clothes they wear, the aristocratic men have hunting clothes, belts, crowns, straight clothes, and so on, and all of them are crowns and belts, loose and bloated, and the primary purpose is to waste fabric, and basically none of them look good or comfortable to wear. In particular, the "belt" of the court dress of the ministers who went to the pilgrimage to meet the emperor is also a "long coat" that mops the floor behind the buttocks, which can be up to 5 meters long, and the specific style can participate in the back hem of the bride's wedding dress.

Moreover, when the Japanese nobles and ministers entered the palace, there were no girls or bridesmaids to help them lift the cloth behind their buttocks.

As a result, this "long coat", which seems to be an ultra-long diaper, had to be dragged around on the ground, just like the cloth of the sweeping aunt - it is estimated that the person who originally designed this set of court clothes hoped that all civil and military officials could volunteer to work as cleaners for the emperor. As long as you drag this "long coat" back and forth in the palace every day when you go to the court and disperse, you can wipe the dust off the corridors and courtyards......

By the way, one of the common pranks among the nobles of the Heian Dynasty was to step on someone else's "long coat" and make him stumble and fall......

As for aristocratic women, there are twelve singles of clothing as formal wear, commonly known as "twelve singles". and the "pot costume" worn when going out (that is, wearing a loose robe, a hat on his head, and a long veil hanging around him, the shape is extremely bloated, and it looks like a wine jug from a distance). And so on.

Well, as a female time-traveler who has departed from low-level interests and pursued the classical charm of the Heian period, after watching the anime works such as "Young Onmyoji", "The Tale of Genji", and "In Distant Time and Space", I must be eager to try the most formal costumes of the "Yamato Nadeshiko" of the Heian period, that is, the "Twelve Singles" with the most luxurious style and the most gorgeous colors, like a burning cloud!

The so-called "Twelve Singles" is to fold twelve embroidered singles of different colors and wear them, which looks colorful and gorgeous, and has a solemn and generous classical beauty, whether in TV series or comics, it looks extremely gorgeous and dazzling, and the visual effects are amazingly good.

In particular, the 12 orders made with Kyoto's famous silk "Nishijin Ori" are known as a delicate combination of art and handicraft, as well as one of the most gorgeous embroideries in Shijie, and are highly sought after and loved by fashionable women in ancient and modern China and abroad.

But the question is, do you know how much this gorgeous and luxurious "Twelve Orders" weighs?

The answer may scare you to death: 10~20 kg!

To put it more figuratively, it is roughly equivalent to the weight of a junior elementary school student!

――A few years ago, in order to let international students in Japan better understand Japanese traditional culture, the Nagoya International Center held a "12 Singles" women's kimono try-on experience for international students. The international students watched the models demonstrate how to wear them, and then tried them on with the help of the staff. Then they gasped and said, "...... ('Twelve Singles') is very beautiful in both color and pattern, and it is very interesting to wear it as if you have traveled back in time, but the only problem is that it is too heavy to bear. ”…,

There was a 23-year-old Chinese guy who didn't believe in evil and tried to wear the "Twelve Singles", but he was also almost tired and lay down.

In fact, the "twelve singles" taken out by the Nagoya International Center at that experience meeting are already about 10 kilograms of "summer light version", and if it is winter clothing, it will nearly double the weight (the "twelve singles" in summer are single-layered, and in winter they need to be paved, similar to the Chinese stuffing cotton into the jacket in winter and digging out the cotton in summer, so the weight changes greatly).

In addition, although the formal wear of aristocratic women in the Heian period was called twelve singles by later generations, it did not necessarily mean that twelve clothes were worn on top of each other, but that they were matched differently according to the season and preferences, and there were often breakthroughs in the number. Among them, it is said that there are female aristocrats who wore 26 pieces of clothing on top of each other at a time...... The weight of the "twenty-six singles" is only more than 40 kilograms!

No way, due to the relative backwardness of ancient textile, embroidery, printing and dyeing jishu, the fabrics produced are often much thicker and heavier than modern products under the same size. And the same because the ancient textile jishu is underdeveloped, the price of cloth is expensive, so the length of each person's clothes, has also become a big way to show wealth and identity, and our modern rich people drive to drive BMW, jewelry to wear diamonds is a truth - the most common way for the rich in those years is to wear money on their bodies!

Generally speaking, in order to save fabric, the poor in ancient times could only wear a thin pair of short clothes and shorts, and the richer the person, the more cumbersome the clothes. Japan's "Twelve Orders" is the pinnacle of this idea, so much so that it finally came up with a terrifying weight of 10~20 kilograms......

-- You must know that during the same period, the hoplite armor of the Southern Song Dynasty in China, the "Buren Armor", that is, about forty or fifty catties, at most less than sixty catties, and this is already the heaviest armor in Chinese history......

Please don't think crookedly, this is not the Southern Song Dynasty court's self-abandonment of martial arts, self-destruction of pillars, raising soldiers to be weak and weak, even the delicate boudoir women are not as good. In fact, in medieval Europe at the other end of Shijie, the weight of ordinary chain mail was only 15 kilograms, which was about 30 catties. Even the Gothic full-body armor of the 15th century has reached the level of impermeable protection, and it weighs only 20 kilograms.

Even with such "light" armor, the soldiers of the three major and five thick clothes still complained of being tired all day long, and they usually threw the armor on the cart and pulled it by mules and horses on the march, and only after arriving on the battlefield would they temporarily put it on the battlefield.

However, the "Twelve Orders" of Japanese aristocratic women, also known as women's room attire, are the formal clothes they must wear when they work in the palace and receive guests. In addition, all kinds of gold and silver jewelry and jade pendants other than clothes, as well as hairpins and ornaments on the head, fans and handkerchiefs in the hands...... Added up to the bits and pieces, the burden on every lady's whole body, sometimes even more than 30 kilograms! And also hold out for at least one day!

- A delicate boudoir woman can really become more powerful than a soldier in order to pursue beauty...... What kind of spirit is this? It is a spirit that spares one's life for the sake of grace and beauty! The ancient adage of "women are those who please themselves" has been brought to the extreme!

Well, now I finally understand that those court women in Weishenme's classical Japanese novels often faint with a little excitement - they are so thickly dressed that even if they are not crushed to death, they should be suffocated to death! In the summer, I am sure to suffer from heat stroke!

For this reason, I really have to admire the great perseverance of aristocratic women in Japan's Heian period. For these classical beauties of the Heian Dynasty who are wearing 20 kilograms of burdens and can still behave elegantly and gracefully, I want to say here with great sincerity: You are really not easy! …,

――I wonder if under the thick clothes of those "Yamato Nadeshikos" is hidden a circle of muscles with bulging muscles?

(It was precisely because of the weight of their clothes that aristocratic women in the Heian period rarely stood up indoors, and most of them sat up on their knees...... ）

In fact, the tradition of Japanese women's clothing, which is flamboyant but exaggerated, has continued into modern Japan. For example, the most formal dress of contemporary Japanese women, the Daiki-sleeve, has no less than 15 basic accessories, and there are as many as four layers of clothes from the inside out, not counting two layers of underwear, which is basically equivalent to a simplified version of 12 sheets, and the weight reaches an unbearable 8 kilograms......

We can see in TV shows that if contemporary Japanese women wear such heavy and cumbersome big vibration sleeves, their movements are basically very inconvenient, especially when going down the stairs, almost they can only "rub" sideways and small steps.

Therefore, I would like to advise all ladies who are interested in traveling back to the Heian period of Japan and enjoying the classical elegance. Before you embark on this road of no return through time and space, it is best to go to the health club and find a bodybuilding instructor to exercise more, and it is best to train a strong tendon meat.

Otherwise, once you arrive in Heian period Japan, you will probably be out of breath immediately after you put on the "Twelve Orders" formal suit. If you don't have a maid to support you, I'm afraid you won't even be able to get out of the house. And I regret it even more in my heart, I feel that I still turn around and go back to ancient Egypt, and run naked with everyone all day with my bare ass and boobs - after all, it's easy!

-- Ancient Egypt in B.C. and ancient Japan in the Heian period just showed two extremes in terms of clothing culture: one was very little dressed and liked to be naked; One is dressed in a lot of armor......