The rise of China
In the Zhou Dynasty of China, there was a shirt called Zhongyi, which was later called Zhongdan. In the Han Dynasty, close fitting clothes were called toilet stalls. The name of shirt has been used in the Song Dynasty. It is now called Chinese shirt.
Shirt originally refers to a single garment with short sleeves that is used to line the dress, that is, a garment with sleeves removed. In the Song Dynasty, there were no sleeved shirts. There were short and small ones lined inside, and also long ones worn outside. For example, Lin Chong "shook all the snow on his body and took off the white cloth shirt covering his upper body" in the Water Margin, Coach Lin Snow Mountain God, is an example. In ancient times, women wore blouses called "shirts" or "half coats". Yuan Zhen, a Tang Dynasty litterateur, once wrote in his poem Zayi, a poem that said "I have a thin shirt with two essays".
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, people began to wear suits because of the European trend. They put their shirts on the inside of the suits as shirts, and tied their ties with five buttons in the middle.
European History
In the 16th century BC, the 18th Dynasty of ancient Egypt had shirts, which were collarless and sleeveless tunics. The shirts worn by Normans in the 14th century had collars and sleeves. In the 16th century, it was popular in Europe to embroider the collar and chest of shirts, or to decorate lace at the collar, cuffs and chest. At the end of the 18th century, the British wore high collar shirts. In Queen Victoria's time, high collar shirts were eliminated, forming a modern Western style shirt with vertical lapels. In the 1840s, western shirts were introduced into China. Shirts were originally used for men, but gradually adopted by women in the 1950s, and have now become one of the commonly used clothing.
