Did ancient people not wear underwear for “convenience”?

When it comes to underwear, everyone is very familiar with it. It is an essential daily necessity for us. However, women in ancient times never wore underwear. Why is this happening?

The fig leaf of the ancients

The ancients referred to clothes as "衣" for the upper body and "尚" for the lower body. "Shang" is a bit like a skirt, to put it simply, it is a piece of cloth to cover the body. Pants did not appear until the Spring and Autumn Period. Later, women would wear an extra pair of old pants inside during menstruation to avoid soiling their outer pants. Gradually, men followed suit, and it gradually evolved into the underwear we wear today. Nowadays, not wearing underwear has become another expression of sexiness.

Women who don't wear underwear are often desirable. The young men's sexual desire makes them anxious and repressed, and the women who do not wear underwear provide "debauchery" content when being observed. Sexual fantasies record the adolescence of every young man, and whether women wear underwear or not has important social value.

Why don't women wear underwear?

There is a historical tradition that women do not wear underwear. Wang Xiaobo wrote in his "Hong Fu's Night Escape": "The prostitutes on the streets of Luoyang were the most rude to Hong Fu. They would turn around and lift up their skirts to show her their bare buttocks. After seeing these buttocks, Hong Fu realized that these people did not wear underwear.

Not wearing underwear seems to highlight the buttocks, but those buttocks themselves are not good-looking. Then they turned around and said: "Do you want to arrest me? Go back and ask how many times I have been to the palace!" Although there is no record that prostitutes in Luoyang did not wear underwear, it is not difficult to find that Wang Xiaobo's description is appropriate after examining the unofficial historical notes. But it is unknown whether they had the glorious deeds of "going to the palace several times". For three dynasties, women had no clothes on their lower body, and they did not wear open-crotch pants until the Han Dynasty.

Open crotch pants of the Han Dynasty

"Book of Han: Biography of Empress Shangguan" said: "Even the palace ladies and servants all wore poor pants with belts." The so-called "poor pants" were open-crotch pants. The purpose of wearing open-crotch pants is to facilitate urination and defecation, but it is also natural not to wear underwear. This situation continued at least until the Tang Dynasty, when the Japanese made kimonos based on Tang suits, and it seemed that women did not wear underwear when wearing kimonos.

The bondage of moralists

In ancient China, whether a woman wore pants or not was a very important matter. Moralists even linked the relationship between women and pants to the long-term stability of the country, believing that it was extremely indecent for a woman to wear pants with her legs apart. It is this view that has kept women from wearing pants for thousands of years...

Some people also say that Kimono is a modification of "Wufu", which originated from the eight hundred boys and girls in Jiangnan. Women do not wear underwear, which retains the basic characteristics of ancient Chinese "clothing". "The only invention of the Japanese is the loincloth for men, which is still found in the huge buttocks of sumo wrestlers." Our ancestors created underwear with the primary purpose of protecting sexual organs and also to maintain decency, so it became a product of civilization.

Wearing underwear is up to you

As time goes by, underwear that was once used to protect the body has now become used to restrain the body. Some are tightly tied to the inner thighs with a triangle shape, cutting into the flesh; some are sewn with three lines as an embellishment. Since the protective function does not exist, it seems unnecessary to cover the private parts. Therefore, whether avant-garde women wear underwear or not is irrelevant to the overall situation and has nothing to do with civilization.

Remove the "artistic conception" of "sudden burst of spring light", and what remains is only the temptation of sex. Concepts have been open for a long time, and the era of sexual repression has long gone. When couples chat at night, underwear becomes an obstacle to their love. It is better to overcome the obstacle, give up the bondage and return to freedom. The highest function of clothes is to protect the body, and the highest level is to restore the body's freedom. Since underwear becomes a burden, it’s better not to wear it.

From ancient times to the present, earth-shaking changes have taken place, and there have also been huge changes in sexual culture. As for the question of whether to wear underwear or not, it is not like the "moral constraints" of the ancients. It is completely liberal. If you feel it is a restraint, it is okay not to wear it.