Imperial yellow jacket

Huang magua
Yellow Magua from the painting Banquets-at-a-frontier-fortress (cropped)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese黃馬褂
Simplified Chinese黃马褂
Literal meaningYellow horse jacket
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHuáng mǎguà
English name
EnglishImperial yellow jacket

The imperial yellow jacket (Chinese: 黃馬褂; pinyin: Huáng mǎguà) was a symbol of high honour during China's Qing dynasty.[1] As yellow was a forbidden color, representing the Emperor, the jacket was given only to high-ranking officials and to the Emperor's body guards.[2]

  1. ^ Chʻên, Chi-tʻung; John Henry Gray (1900). The Chinese Empire, Past and Present. Rand, McNally. p. 103. Imperial Yellow Jacket.
  2. ^ Dickinson, Gary; Linda Wrigglesworth (2001). Imperial Wardrobe. Ten Speed Press. p. 116. ISBN 1-58008-188-6.