Escape To Your Heart 花开锦绣. Starring Ding Yuxi and Ancy Deng Enxi.
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Someone asked recently about the hat that Ding Yuxi is wearing in Escape to Your Heart. I believe this is the Ming Dynasty damao 大帽 (large hat). Thought some of you might be interested to know more.....
Loosely translated from Baidu:
“The damao is an important category within traditional Chinese headgear. Its open-brimmed form can be traced back as early as the Northern Wei period, when it was originally worn in daily life by commoners. After the Five Dynasties period, it gradually developed into official ceremonial headwear. In the Ming dynasty, the damao evolved into a distinctive system based on earlier forms. Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming, designated it as a sun-shading ceremonial hat for students of the Imperial Academy, granting it symbolic ritual significance.
“A damao unearthed from the tomb of Prince Lu Huang (Zhu Tan) and now preserved in the Shandong Museum provides material evidence of its early bead decorations and the mid-Ming improvement of strap-fastening features. Through cultural exchange, this type of headgear spread to the Korean Peninsula, where over the course of its evolution it developed clear distinctions from the Korean heungnip (black hat).
“In the history of clothing exchange in East Asia, the Ming dynasty damao (large hat) was introduced to the Korean Peninsula through diplomatic contacts. According to the Veritable Records of King Sejong from the early Joseon period, local craftsmen, drawing on the structure of the damao, developed the heungnip (black hat) that incorporated rain-proof functions, though features such as the curvature of the brim and the hanging gauze decoration became localized characteristics.
“As for documentary sources, in addition to records in historical works such as the 《新五代史》 New History of the Five Dynasties and the Book of Northern Qi 《北齐书》, the Ming dynasty Sancai Tuhui 《三才图会》, with its illustrations and text, recorded the ceremonial specifications of the damao. Its entry on “Hats of Civil and Military Officials” “文武官笠帽” describes in detail the inheritance of its form from Yuan Mongol hats. In modern archaeological discoveries, the gold-edged damao unearthed from the tomb of Prince Lu Huang corresponds with the princely crown depicted in Zhongdonggong Guanfu (“Attire of the Eastern Palace”) 《中东宫冠服》, providing physical evidence for the study of the clothing system of Ming imperial clans.”
