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  2. Sumptuary law - Wikipedia

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    Sumptuary laws existed in China in one form or another from the Qin dynasty onward (221 BC). The Confucian virtue of restraint was embodied in the scholarly system central to China's bureaucracy and became encoded in its laws. [15] Some laws concerned the size and decoration of graves and mausoleums.

  3. Mangfu - Wikipedia

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    [5] [9] According to Shen Dufu, the sumptuary laws were being trespassed and the fault was that of the Emperor who was failing at regulating the possession robes adorned with imperial insignia. [5] [9] During the 16th year of Emperor Hongzhi (1504), the customs of bestowing mangfu to the Grand Secretariat began. [1]

  4. Guan (headwear) - Wikipedia

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    In ancient China, Han Chinese men had to undergo a capping ceremony called Guan Li as their coming of age ceremony where a guan was placed on their head by a respected elder. [7] [4] The Guan Li started by the nobles of the Zhou dynasty and eventually spread to the civilians. [7] The Guan Li was eventually forcefully ended during the Qing ...

  5. Royal and noble ranks of the Qing dynasty - Wikipedia

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    Qing sumptuary laws only allowed four clawed dragons for officials, Han Chinese nobles and Manchu nobles while the Qing Imperial family, emperor and princes up to the second degree and their female family members were entitled to wear five clawed dragons.

  6. Qizhuang - Wikipedia

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    The mid-18th century sumptuary laws stipulated that only the emperor and heir apparent could wear robes with five-clawed dragons, but in the 19th century, these regulations were often not observed. [42] Other people were actually supposed to wear four-clawed dragons robes . [43] Dark blue [42] chaopao with either 4-clawed or 5-clawed dragons

  7. The pointy-shoed corruption of medieval London - AOL

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    In 1362 Pope Urban V tried to ban them completely - and in 1463 the UK Parliament under Edward IV passed a sumptuary law to stop anyone lower in rank than lord to wear shoes longer than two inches ...

  8. Mandarin square - Wikipedia

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    Mandarin squares were first authorized for the wear of officials in the sumptuary laws of 1391 of the Ming dynasty. [4]: 235 The use of squares depicting birds for civil officials and animals for military officials was an outgrowth of the use of similar squares, apparently for decorative use, in the Yuan dynasty. [5]

  9. First person charged under Australia's foreign interference ...

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    He is the first person to be charged under federal laws created in 2018 that ban covert foreign interference in domestic politics and make industrial espionage for a foreign power a crime.