今天使用手帕的人们并不知道,手帕是根据法国国王路易十六在1784年9月23日颁布的命令制作的。他指定“手帕的长与宽必须相等”。解释很简单:椭圆形的手帕当时被视为保守的,而且浪费材料。手帕在传到法国之前已存在很长时间。最早提及手帕是在公元前3世纪,只有希腊和罗马贵族使用它。他们在频繁而且奢糜的宴席间,需要不时地擦汗,因此“发明”了用于擦汗的手帕,叫做“汗巾”。有幸携带汗巾的人,在擦汗的同时,总要偷偷(扌省)鼻涕。早在那个时代,当众(扌省)鼻涕就被视为极其不文明的举动。 People who use handkerchiefs today are not aware that the handkerchiefs were made on the orders issued by King Louis XVI of France on September 23, 1784. He specified that “the length and width of a handkerchief must be equal.” The explanation is simple: oval handkerchiefs were considered conservative at the time, and material wasted. Handkerchiefs have existed for a long time before they reached France. The first mention of handkerchiefs was in the 3rd century BC, only the Greek and Roman nobility used it. Their frequent and extravagant banquets, which require sweat from time to time, have “invented” handkerchiefs for wiping sweat called “sweatshirts.” People who are fortunate enough to carry sweatshirts always snuck their noses at the same time as wiping sweat. Early in that era, the public (provincial) noses were seen as extremely uncivilized.