Dimensions: Length: 87cm; length of waistband: 108cm; width of waistband: 10.5cm

Origin: Excavated from the Tombs of the Yuan Dynasty, Former Chengguan Oil Plant, Huarong County, Hunan Province in 1988

This skirt, designed to be wrapped around the lower body and tied at the waist, was called a “chang” (skirt) before the Han Dynasty and a “qun” (skirt) after the Han.

Along with the increased width of the skirt, the pleats, which had originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty, increased in number, from dozens to over one hundred, after the Sui and Tang Dynasties. With the same width, each pleat is fixed on the waistband of the skirt. It is called the “hundred-pleat” skirt.