【权谋】袁世凯提出了一个龙袍设计方案,他认为龙袍应中西合璧,服色主红,象征火德(清为土德,袁世凯欲以火代土)。其领用圆领,以象征天,且领子为提纲之处,应用中式;袖子应是方的,以象征地,而且合乎西制;对襟,以象征两半球,隐寓全球服从之意;上绣金龙,兼用藻火,又变成中式。最后,按袁世凯的意图,由北京瑞蚨祥耗费七十万金制作出这么一个不中不西的“龙袍”。 [Quan Yuan] Yuan Shikai put forward a robes design, he believes that robes should be Chinese and Western, serving color red, a symbol of fire Germany (Qing Tu Tuo, Yuan Shih-Kai to fire behalf of soil). Its collar with a round neck to symbolize the days, and the collar as an outline of the place, the application of Chinese; sleeves should be square to symbolically, and in line with Western system; lapel, to symbolize the two hemispheres, conceal the meaning of global obedience; Embroidered golden dragon, both algae fire, but also into Chinese. Finally, according to Yuan Shikai’s intentions, Beijing Ruixiang spent 700,000 gold to make such a “Western robe”.