Origin of Raincoat

Raincoat originated in China. During the Zhou Dynasty, people used the herb “ficus pumila” to make raincoats to protect against rain, snow, wind and sun. Such kind of raincoat is usually called “coir raincoat”. The outdated rain gear has completely disappeared in the contemporary countryside, and has become the permanent memory with the development of the times. The memory is indelible, which will appear in a particular occasion to touch your emotions, and you will remember it involuntarily and clearly. The memory gets more precious with years.

In pagis regionibus de annis 1960 et 1970, coir paenula erat instrumentum necessarium ad exitum et operandum opus rusticum pro omni familia. Pluviis diebus, opus est quaerere aquam in paddy campis, evolvunt aquas circa domum et obturaculum pinum in tecto ....... Utcumque gravis pluvia erat, semper homines pluviali induti, tunicam paenulam et caput in tempestatem portabant. Illo tempore umbilicus hominum in aquae fluxu erat, dum coir paenula tacite adiuvabat homines pluviam e caelo obstruunt. Imber gravior vel levior, sicut sagittae acutae, et coir paenula erat quasi scutum arctans pluviam sagittas ne iterum iterumque iacularetur. Pluribus horis transactis, coir paenula dorsi pluviis madefacta est, et induta pluviali et coir paenula stabat statua in agro vento et pluvia.

Versa aprica ex imbri, pluviae madefactae tunicae in apricis parte parietis pendebant, ita ut sol saepius luceret, donec coir paenula exsiccata et gramen vel fibra palmarum crinita facta est. Cum proximus imber venit, homines sicco et calido coir paenula uti possent ut in ventum et pluviam iret.

“Indigo rainhats and green coir raincoats”, in the busy farming season of spring, people wearing rainhats and coir raincoats could be seen everywhere in the fields. The coir raincoat protected farmers from the wind and rain. Year after year, the farmers gained fruitful harvests.

Nunc, coir paenula rara est et leviori et utilius paenula substituitur. Forsitan, adhuc reperiri potest in hortis praediis in locis remotis montanis vel museis in urbibus, memoriam tuam altam evocans ac frugalitatem ac simplicitatem priorum saeculorum te sinit vivere.