Damao (Chinese: 大帽), also known as Big hat in English, is a type of Chinese round hat with a wide brim, which was worn in the Ming dynasty. 39 It was commonly worn by commoners of the Ming dynasty and is often seen in Ming dynasty portraits. Mongols’ boli hat (Chinese: 钹笠帽; pinyin: Boli mao; lit. Damao is composed of a wide brim, a high crown and a long string which is used as a tie. Boli hat (钹笠帽), a cymbal-shape hat with a round crown and with a brim which extended outwards and downwards, was one of the most popular hats worn by the Mongols (including the Yuan Emperors, officials and male commoners) in the Yuan dynasty. 208 It could be made from straw or fabric. The use of boli hat by the ordinary Mongols in their everyday lives in the Yuan dynasty. This eventually influenced the Han Chinese. The boli hat continued to be used in the Ming dynasty where it was renamed damao in historical documents of the Ming dynasty, which may be because they were rounder and bigger than the futou had traditionally been worn by the Han Chinese. The damao was also widely worn by government clerks and family servants of the Ming officials and the Imperial family, and postmen (yishi 役使). Figurine wearing a boli hat, ming dynasty hanfu male Yuan dynasty. They were also symbols of low-ranking servants as they were commonly worn by family servants; it was worn by people of lower-ranking occupations due to their practicality. A damao made of rattan called chanzongmao (缠棕帽) is also used by military men, sometimes decorated with feathers attached on top of the hat. Since then, the hat was used by kegong (科貢, i.e. nominees for offices). The damao also appeared in the Ming dictionary, Sancai Tuhui, where it is depicted and is called damao; according to the accompanying text in the Sancai Tuhui: in the early Ming dynasty, the Emperor saw the imperial examinees sitting under the sun; therefore he ordered a damao hat for each of the examinees to be worn so that they would be protected from the sun. Ming musketeers wearing chanzongmao. Ming dynasty pottery figures wearing damao. The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities Bulletin 70. Östasiatiska museet. Di 1 ban ed.). Xianggang: Mu wen tang mei shu chu ban she you xian gong si. Social Sciences in China. 三才圖會. Wei, Luo (2018-01-02). “A Preliminary Study of Mongol Costumes in the Ming Dynasty”. 缠棕帽,以藤织成,如胄,亦武士服也。 This article related to the history of China is a stub. This article about the history of clothing is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This page was last edited on 24 March 2024, at 00:24 (UTC). You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.