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What materials do you mainly follow when learning historical costumes?
The study of historical costumes mainly refers to contemporary historical documents or clothing cultural relics left over. Contemporary historical documents are mainly found in contemporary official history books or personal biographies.

Taking the study of women's wear in Ming Dynasty as an example, we can refer to the official revision of Daming Ji Li in the early Ming Dynasty, Daming Hui Dian and Shi Ming Lu in the late Ming Dynasty, and the official revision of Ming Shi in the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, if you just want to know, you can read some articles or books about clothing that study ancient history.

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China Costume Dictionary is a professional dictionary that systematically introduces the costume culture of China in past dynasties. In addition, there are ancient Chinese costume customs from the perspective of ancient costumes and social customs, costume art about costume development in China in past dynasties, and female decoration with female costumes as the main content in China in past dynasties.

Then comes the History of China Clothing by Huang Nengfu and Chen Juanjuan, which is a common knowledge of clothing research, including the clothing system, clothing shape, fabrics, patterns and corresponding accessories of various dynasties. There are also works such as "Dress the World: A History of China's Clothing Images", "China's Culture and Clothing History" and "China's Clothing Art in Past Dynasties".

There is also the gorgeous Clothing and China Culture, which is based on the cultural connotation of clothing. Among them, China's clothing concept and China's philosophy, China's clothing system and China's etiquette system, China's clothing patterns and China's cultural symbols, the evolution of clothing in past dynasties and the development history of the Chinese nation are mentioned, and various cultural connotations of clothing are discussed in detail. There are China Clothing History, Human Clothing Culture and China Clothing.

China HowNet-Literature Review of Women's Wear Research in Ming Dynasty