白绫衫照月光殊——由《金瓶梅》及相关史料看明代元宵节妇女服饰民俗

Moon Light Makes White Silk Garment Special --Inquiring into the Customs of Women Dress during the Lantern Festival in Ming dynasty from Jinpingmei and Related Historical Data

妇女的穿戴打扮 ,往往在节日里表现得最为突出 ,甚至具有明显的超乎节序的特色 ,形成节日民俗一大景观。明代市情小说《金瓶梅》堪称最好注脚。明朝妇女在元宵节期间喜穿白绫的习俗 ,《金瓶梅》中有多处与此相关的描述 ,可与明代史料互为补充、印证。白绫衫 (袄 )在明代成了元宵节物 ,妇女必备。不惟如此 ,白色衣服在平日也是很受人喜欢的便服。因此 ,由《金瓶梅》我们可以一窥明代妇女习俗 ,妇女元宵夜走百病时穿白绫乃是其中服饰民俗之一。这在服饰民俗史上也是一个独特之处。

Wearing of women usually has especially outstanding expression in the festival, even has obvious features out of the normal season, which form a big landscape of festival customs Jinpingmei ,a novel about the local conditions and customs of Ming Dynasty , may be rated as the best footnote Jinpingmei has many describes correlated with The custom that women of Ming Dynasty were pleased to wear white silk garment during the Lantern Festival And these describes can support each other with historical data of Ming Dynasty During Lantern Festival of Ming Dynasty, women undoubtedly have white silk garment (or coat) Not only such, white clothes at ordinary times also bring about loving Therefore, from Jinpingmei we can catch a glimpse of the custom of women of Ming Dynasty Wearing the white silk during the period of Zoubaibing in the Lantern Festival is among the dress customs This is also a special place in the folk history of dress