The Ming emperor once stipulated that all Buddhist monks wear brown clothes, Buddhist monks wear blue clothes and Legalist monks wear black clothes. There have been no official regulations since the Qing Dynasty. However, after the revival of lawyers who saw the moon in the early Qing Dynasty, the common robes of monks were orange-gray, regardless of their status. Wear purple in more formal occasions, and only wear patchwork and Taoist robes when doing things or attending very formal activities.

There are three kinds of clothes that monks wear: one is a small coat sewn with five pieces of cloth, commonly known as five clothes in China, which are worn when cleaning and working; First, sew seven pieces of cloth into a cheongsam, commonly known as seven clothes in China, which is usually worn; One is a coat made of nine or even twenty-five pieces of cloth, commonly known as ancestral clothes in China, which is a dress worn when going out or meeting with elders. Three clothes are always called cassock. The cassock was originally the name of a color, because Buddhist monks must wear dyed clothes, and avoid using five positive colors of green, yellow, red, white and black, but use variegated colors, that is, cassock colors. The color of the cassock in ancient Chinese translation is red, while the southern Buddhist classics say it is orange, which may be a mixture of red and yellow. According to the records of China Buddhist Scriptures, after Buddhism was divided into sects in India, the sects had different colors, some were red, some were yellow, some were blue, black and magnolia.