Chinese culture traditional hanfu clothing

Chinese culture Traditional Hanfu Dress is introduced

Hanfu clothing is the traditional clothing of the Han Chinese (Han -the predominant ethnic group of China). It's the significant cultural symbol of Chinese civilization, and it has had a long history for nearly 4000 years since China originally began. 

However, it has been eliminated during the establishment of Qing Dynasty (the Manchu minority ruled dynasty) in about 300 years. The ruling class of Manchu banned Han Chinese clothing and replaced it with their own costume. This is why today's Chinese national costume was widely known as Qipao (Chi-Pao), a Manchu style of clothing. Our effort is to re-promote and advocate Hanfu to the public awareness.  

The main feature of Hanfu is wrapping the right side over before the left. There are casual wear and formal wear of it. 

For the casual wear such as Shenyi (Shen-Yee): a long full body garment; Ruqun (Zu-Chin): a top garment with a separate lower skirt, etc. Formal garments may include: Xuanduan (Shyan-Duan): a dark robe, this dress is mostly used in sacrificial ceremonies and state occasions; Yuan-Lin Shan: a closed, round collared robe, mostly used for official or academic occasions.  

Chinese civilization, also called "Hua-Xia" ("Hwa-Shia"). "Hua"("Hwa") means the beauty of the dress & decoration which is Hanfu clothing; "Xia"("Shia") is the grandeur of rites and social conduct. 

Many East Asian national costumes, such as the Japanese Kimono, the Korean Hanbok still share the basic style with Hanfu, as historically these nations were largely influenced by (Han) Chinese culture.

Costume in the Han Dynasty China's complete code of costume and trappings was established in the Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD). The yarn-dyeing, embroidering and metal-processing technologies developed rapidly in the period, spurring changes in costume and adornments. The costume code of the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-8AD) followed the one established in the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC). In the Eastern Han Dynasty, people in black had to wear purple silk adornments to match their clothes. People usually wore costume with a long hat at grand ceremonies offering sacrifices to gods or ancestors. The dress of the queen in these ceremonies consisted of dark-purple frock and black trousers. The silk dress of the queen consisted of cyan frock and buff trousers.

The Western Han Dynasty implemented the Shenyi (long coat) system, which featured a cicada-shaped hat, red clothes and shaped collar. Costumes of the Han Dynasty had 7 features:

1. Wearers must expose underpants' collar form , as the collar was big and curving 2. Clothes must use white cloth as lining; 3. The width of sleeve was 0.4 meters; 4. The blouse had no sleeve; 5. Wearers of fur clothes should have the fur facing outside; 6. Waistband was very exquisite. Belt hook was made of gold in various lively and interesting animal figures; 7. The male kept the habitude of wearing walking sabres without blades for decoration only.

Female laborers of the Han Dynasty always wore short hanfu jackets and long skirts, and their knees were always decorated with long hanging waistbands. dressing style at that time. Male laborers often wore jackets and calf-nose trousers with aprons around the garments.