Talk:Vietnamese/@comment-27977344-20190519152949/@comment-34254290-20191204033622

It's just a metaphor, plain cloth = the poor common people, as silks and armors were expensive. Obviously he wore heavy armors during battles. Just like how tribal folks back then exalted Elder Triệu as "breast three foots long". They were saying that she was a mighty matriarch who did the impossible, not literally, or a lot more Chinese soldiers would have died due to distraction.