Disciples

Chapter 34

Original
Clothes are expensive and clean, not luxurious;
The top is divided, and the bottom is called home.

Translation
Clothes are valuable because they are clean and tidy, not how gorgeous they are; people with official positions should dress in accordance with their status, and ordinary people should dress in accordance with their family circumstances.This is the etiquette of dressing, and more attention should be paid to it.

allusion
During the Tang Dynasty, only officials of the third rank and above could wear purple clothes, and officials of the fifth rank and above could wear crimson clothes.

When Wu Zetian was in power, Nanhai paid a tribute to Jiao Cuiqiu.It is made of kingfisher hair and is very luxurious.Wu Zetian rewarded it to his favorite eunuch Zhang Changzong.One day, Zhang Changzong was playing poker with Wu Zetian in Jiao Cuiqiu, and Prime Minister Di Renjie was going to play in the palace.In order to make the favored minister and the prime minister bond, Wu Zetian asked them to play bo games together.Di Renjie said: "Gambling cannot be without a lottery. I bet on the fur fur worn by Changzong on the condition of winning three games in a row." Wu Zetian said: "Then what is your bet?" Di Renjie pointed to the thick silk on his body Zipao, "Let's take this as a bet!" Wu Zetian smiled and said, "You don't know that this fur is worth thousands of gold. How much is your robe worth?" Di Renjie said, "This robe belongs to a minister. The official uniform worn during the court meeting, Changzong's fur is just an informal garment, and it is not worthwhile to gamble with the minister's robe?" Zhang Changzong was originally afraid of Di Renjie, and after hearing these words, Terrified, lost three games in a row.Di Renjie immediately took off his fur, thanked Wu Zetian for his kindness, and as soon as he left the palace gate, he threw it to his servants to wear it back home.Di Renjie wins in righteousness and evil, and in the identity and status represented by the purple robe.

(End of this chapter)