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This overall design was called "shining armor" (Chinese: 明光甲; pinyin: míngguāngjiǎ). [63] There is an alternative theory that mountain pattern armour is simply a result of very stylistic depictions of mail armour, [64] but known depictions of mail armour in Chinese art do not match with mountain pattern armour either.
A cylindrical cap; it has a higher back and lower front. Originally it was a soldiers' headscarf that later developed into a head covering cap in the Han Dynasty and adopted into widespread use. [33] A red jinze called chize (赤帻) was used by military personnel, while another variant called jieze(介帻) is used by civil officials and servants.
It is suggested that the use of lingzi originated from the wuguan (Chinese: 武冠; pinyin: wǔguān; lit. 'military cap'), a form of guan used by the military officials since the ancient times. [3] Similar headgear decorated with pairs of lingzi worn the military can be seen in paintings dating to the Ming dynasty .
The Qing official headwear or Qingdai guanmao (Chinese: 清代官帽; pinyin: qīngdài guānmào; lit. 'Qing dynasty official hat'), also referred as the Official hats of the Qing dynasty [1] or Mandarin hat in English, [2] is a generic term which refers to the types of guanmao (Chinese: 官帽; pinyin: guānmào; lit. 'official hat'), a headgear, worn by the officials of the Qing dynasty in ...
Guan (Chinese: 冠; pinyin: guān), literally translated as hat or cap or crown in English, [1] is a general term which refers to a type of headwear in Hanfu which covers a small area of the upper part of the head instead of the entire head.
[135]: 1–7 The Crown prince also wear purple official dress, gold and jade waistband, and wore a folding-up black muslin scarf on his head. [ 135 ] : 1–7 Although some of clothing in the Song dynasty have similarities with previous dynasties, some unique characteristics separate it from the rest.
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Caping worn by a farmer in Indonesia These women at the Awa Dance Festival in Japan wear the characteristic kasa of the dance Vietnamese nón tơi. The Asian conical hat is a simple style of conically shaped sun hat notable in modern-day nations and regions of China, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Bhutan.