[comprehensive] Do you know how the gloves came from in the end?

Written by: Wang Jiexiang, Research Fellow, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Stylish gloves are imported products?

There are boots in ancient times and it is a treasure that protects the cold. We have already had textual research and we know that three or four thousand years ago there was a snow boots similar to today's style. With boots, the problem of the feet was resolved. What should be done with the hand, and where should we hide it? It could not stand the cold in the winter.

In fact, after the boots, there were socks at the latest in the Zhou and Han period, and they were also called foot clothes ("Said Wen"). At the same time as the socks, there are gloves, and the hand is hidden into the glove. The problem of coldness in the hand is solved.

Did you really have gloves in those days? What is the name of the glove in ancient China?

Search on the Internet, you will know that someone has answered this:

Gloves are exotic, first appeared in the Homer's Epic in the 6th century BC. Ancient China did not appear to have had gloves. At least I had never seen it in a costume drama. In addition, gloves were not used in ancient China. Gloves were made of silk or leather. The poor could not afford it. The wealthy people had jewelry that showed their identity. It was impossible to wear gloves. Moreover, our ancient dress sleeves were long, hands were hidden in the sleeves, and the Qing dynasty's crickets had not used any gloves. In winter, they were all wrapped in a tube made of amberjack (both ends are open, and the handles are inserted from both sides). Go in.) For details, see "Jinzhiyuyu." In the last years of the Qing dynasty, the foreign invasion inflicted gloves. In the Republic of China, it became popular and widely used. At that time, it was called a glove.

This reason, it is still very full. However, this is a very arbitrary conclusion. It has nothing to do with authentic textual research. It is said that costume dramas also appeared in gloves, Di Renjie's investigation was used, and it cannot be so true.

For the gloves in Western culture, the above article has this description:

As early as the 6th century BC, there was a record of line gloves. At that time, the ancient Greeks took meals with their hands like the Middle East and Indians. However, they must wear special thread gloves before pilfering. The significance of using chopsticks with us in China is a principle. In the 13th century, women in Europe began to wear gloves as a decoration. These gloves are usually linen or silk textures and can be as long as the elbows. During this period, male nobles also popularly wear decorative gloves. After the European religious community took over the gloves, it changed its functions. The clergymen wear white gloves and show authority, holiness, and piety. There are still religious ceremonies for certain sects. White gloves must be worn. Before the 19th century, the sacred role of white gloves was expanded until the king issued a decree, and judges were required to wear the case. The European knights put on white gloves and said that they performed sacred duties. They took off their gloves and put them in their hands to express their leisure; they put gloves on them. Before the confrontation, he expressed a challenge to the duel; the challenged knight picked up his gloves and declared a fight.

The remains of Bishop Peder Winstrup, the bishop of Sweden, were discovered in the 17th century. They were well preserved and had gloves in their hands.

These words concerning the use of gloves, said to use hand pilgrims, women to decorate and use, religious rituals to use, the knight to use, have nothing to do with the cold, and these may just be the use of gloves derived from behind.

This involves the exploration of the origin of gloves. We read that the above discussion of the origin of gloves is as follows:

In ancient Rome, some noblemen and warriors often went to the wild to hunt. Take trained eagles with you to help them catch the birds. These eagles rest on their wrists. The eagle's foot flaps are very sharp and often scratch the skin on people's wrists. So people thought of a way to wear a long-armed glove in their hands to protect their skin. Later, the usefulness of the gloves changed slowly, and it became a variety of protective gloves and warm gloves for winter hands.

Samurai armed with hands

This means that the glove was the invention of the hunter and was later used as a tool to protect the cold. This inference is also more arbitrary, and it is not convincing that the hawk hunter should be awarded the right to invent the glove. There may be more than one approach to the origin of gloves, but keeping cold must not be a secondary use. It should be an original vigor for this invention.

August 16th, 2005 Xinmin Evening News published a "Gloves in China" article, saying that the gloves were "introduced into China and copied from them for up to 300 years." An important reason for thinking that China has no gloves in the past is that it is not documented in the literature. The name “glove” may not be used in ancient times. How can it be detected in the literature?

However, there are others who have noticed the exploration of the origins of ancient Chinese gloves. The conclusion is not as pessimistic as the above.

Archaeological findings confirmed that ancient China had gloves in the Warring States Period and the Chu Tomb No. 1 found at the Jiangling Rattan Store in Hubei unearthed a bird-written inscription Yue Wang Jian of the “Vietnamese Zhu Hook Effect Sword” and also discovered a pair of leather gloves. The leather gloves are 28.5 centimeters long. They are separated by five fingers and are slightly longer. They are very similar to the usual style of modern gloves. This is certainly a good thing for the nobility at that time, and civilians may not have used it yet, at least without leather gloves.

Hubei Jiangling Rattan Store No. 1 Chu Tomb Unearthed Warring States Leather Gloves

In ancient times, there were gloves made from silk diamonds, and the Mawangdui Han tomb in Changsha was unearthed. In the nine lacquer caskets buried in the tomb, there were three gloves. One pair of "Zi-color diamond gloves", length 26.5 centimeters, straight fingerless head shape, thumb sleeves split joints, the palm surface is red diamonds Luo Luo, the palm of the upper and lower sides decorated with "Qian Jinlu", there is a stack of books Bai Wen's "precious".

Mawangdui Han Tombs in Changsha, Hunan Unearthed Han Dynasty Textile Gloves

Changshan Mawangdui Han Tombs Unearthed

In the Xinjiang region, brocade gloves from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Jin Dynasty were also unearthed. For example, on the 3rd tomb of Minfengyanya No. 3, a pair of gloves was also woven with the words “The sons of the world’s sons and daughters”. It was 35.5 cm long. Its shape is similar to that seen in the Mawangdui Han Tomb, with the four fingers merged and the thumbs out to reveal their fingers.

Xinjiang Hanjin era Brocade gloves unearthed in Xinjiang

In the Mawangdui Han Tomb, because all the funerary objects in the tomb were registered on the booklet, we had the opportunity to know the Han Dynasty personally known as the “尉”.

Alas, according to the "Popular Culture," said "fire bucket." The fire bucket is an iron. This basket is iron. When you see this word, it feels warm. The name of the glove is å°‰, which is related to this fire fighter.

The name of the glove apparently appeared recently. Modern Southerners are commonly known as “hand cages” or “hand cages”. The name of the hand cage was in the Qing Dynasty, and it was also in the Ming Dynasty. Today, the descendants of the immigrants in the Ming Dynasty in Anshun, Guizhou, are still hand-cage. This is the fashion 600 years ago. The hand cage also refers to a cylindrical hand guard, or a hand tube or a warm hand tube. In both hands, it can keep warm, but it is not as convenient as a glove.

Hand cage use this way

In addition to diamond gloves and leather gloves, archeology also found ancient jade gloves. In the tombs of the princes discovered during the archaeological examination in the Han Dynasty, jade garments with corpses, jade clothes, hoods, gloves, pants, and shoes were generally seen. Of course, this type of jade glove is part of the jade dress, which is different from the gloves used alone.

Jade Jade Gloves

Later, in the tomb of the Liao, it was also found that there was a glove that drew the corpse, or silver silk or copper wire was made into it. The fingers were separated, and it was not used alone.

Pass Liao silver gloves

The gloves used in modern times are different from the finger style and the finger style. There are also differences between the exposed finger and the bare finger. These patterns have a historical tradition of no less than 2000 years.

Gloves look like today

Photograph by Maddy Corbin,NATIonAL GEOGRAPHIC YOUR SHOT

Of course, the history of gloves will not be only this 2000 or 3000 years, but in the future it should be able to find earlier evidence. In the painted pottery unearthed from Huoshaogou in Gansu, Gansu saw a painted hand. Perhaps it was gloves. In the cold northwest, the invention of the gloves will not be too late.

Hand-shaped decoration on painted pottery unearthed from Huoshaogou, Yumen, Gansu

In the Takizawa culture ceramic spinning wheel unearthed near Hangzhou, I saw a picture of a suspected glove depicting five fingers separating and carving a clear sense of weaving.

The hand-shaped portrayal on the Taozhuang wheel unearthed in the vicinity of Hangzhou

The winter hand guard in the south is also very necessary. Gloves may have appeared in the period of the Kanazawa culture in 5500.