Brief introduction of terminalia chebula:
Terminalia chebula (pronounced as hēzǐ) is also called "sock chest", "skirt", "lovesickness skirt" and "tube top". Women's corsets in Han costumes are tied from the back to the front, and there are wires under them, which can be tied at the skirt and waist at the same time. Also known as Chinese-style chest covering in Qing Dynasty. Ghost in Xishan Cave: "Take a pillar from the top of the pipe by hand.
Tian Ming Yi Heng's "Stay Youth One Day" Volume 20: "Today's socks chest, a skirt ... that is, the Tang Dynasty's" terminalia "and so on ... from the back to the front, so it is also called acacia skirt." Terminalia chebula is one of the underwear of women in ancient China, which was popular in Tang, Song and Ming dynasties.
Allusions:
Legend has it that it was invented by Yang Yuhuan. "Ji Yuan Shi" contains: "The imperial concubine stole An Lushan, and her finger claw was injured in the breast, so she decorated Chebula."
Before the Tang Dynasty, the shoulders of underwear were decorated with belts. In the Tang Dynasty, a kind of strapless underwear called "Chebula" appeared. This is also determined by the shape and characteristics of their coats: women in the Tang Dynasty like to wear "semi-naked skirts". They tied the skirts high on their chests and then tied a wide belt on the lower part of their chests.
The shoulders, upper chest and back are bare, and underwear is looming, so the underwear fabric is exquisite and colorful, which is quite similar to the "underwear wearing outside" advocated today. In order to match this habit, underwear needs to show off the shoulders. The commonly used fabric of terminalia chebula is woven, which is quite stiff, slightly elastic and feels thick. When you wear it, you only need to tie two straps under your chest. "Weaving" ensures that the upper part of "terminalia chebula" will stand upright.
According to the existing paintings of the Tang Dynasty (such as Zhou Fang's "The Picture of a Beautiful Lady"), Chebra should be a strapless bra. It may be connected to the upper part of the skirt, and tied under the chest with a belt after pulling the chest.
The primitive form of terminalia chebula;
Trees, up to 30 meters. Branches are nearly hairless, lenticels are slender, white or yellowish, and young branches are yellow-brown and tomentose. Leaves alternate or subopposite; The petiole is stout, with a length of 1.8-2.3 cm, and 2(-4) glands at a distance of 1-5 mm from the top.
The leaves are ovoid or ovoid, 7- 14cm long and 4.5-8.5cm wide, with short tip, obtuse or wedge-shaped base, oblique, entire or microwave-shaped, hairless on both sides and densely covered with fine lines; Spikes are axillary or terminal, sometimes forming panicles; Flowers are bisexual.
Calyx tube cup-shaped, light green with yellow, about 3.5 mm long, 5 teeth, about 65438 0 mm long, triangular, glabrous outside, yellow-brown fur inside; Petals missing; Stamens 10, higher than calyx, anthers small, oval; The ovary is inferior, 1 room, cylindrical, about 1mm long, hairy, dark brown when dry, and the style is long, thick and conical.
Drupe, ovoid or ovoid, 2.4-4.5 cm long, 1.9-2.3 cm in diameter, blue, rough, hairless, brown when mature, usually with 5 blunt edges. It blooms in May and bears fruit in July-September.