Fantansitic Chinese Culture-Hanfu

Aug 03, 2021

Hanfu, the full name is "Han national traditional costume", also known as Han costume汉衣冠 and Chinese costume华服.The thoughts "Culture is the background and dominant thought, which centered on Chinese etiquette culture, and formed through natural evolution, it has a unique Han national style and character. It is clearly different from the traditional clothing and accessories system of other ethnic groups.

Hanfu is the embodiment of China’s “clothing country衣冠上国”, “state of etiquette礼仪之邦”, “Splendid China锦绣中华”, and the Kingdom of Seres 赛里斯国. It carries the outstanding craftsmanship and aesthetics of the Han nationality such as dyeing, weaving and embroidery, and inherits more than 30 Chinese intangible cultural heritages.

During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period春秋战国时期, the styles of clothes were unprecedentedly rich, mainly in deep clothing深衣 and Hu clothing胡服. In the late Zhou Dynasty周代后期, due to drastic changes in politics, economy, ideology and culture, especially the Hundred Schools of Thought百家学说 had a certain influence on the perfection of clothing. Customs of the princes began to have obvious differences and created a deep garment. The crown and dress system was included in the scope of "rule of etiquette" 礼治and became a manifestation of etiquette. Since then, the Chinese dress and dress system has become more detailed.

After Qin秦国 unified China, various systems were established, including the clothing and crown system. The etiquette system of the Han Dynasty汉代 was formulated by the Taichang uncle太常叔 Sun Tong孙通 of the Han Gaozu汉高祖 based on the etiquette system of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties夏商周三代. The clothing of men and women in the Western Han Dynasty西汉 still follows the form of deep clothing深衣. There are middle clothes中衣 and deep clothes深衣 in Chanyi蝉衣. The typical women's deep clothing in the Western Han Dynasty西汉, there are two types of straight and curved直裾和曲裾.

The tailoring is different from that of the Warring States period. The collar of the Western Han men's deep coat jacket is wide to the shoulders, the right gusset is straight, and the front flap is drooping to the ground. In order to facilitate movement, the back flap is cut out in a trapezoid shape梯形挖缺 from below the knee, making the sides of the flap into a dovetail shape燕尾状.When women in the Han Dynasty汉代 worked, they liked to wear a long skirt断襦 with a long hanging waistband长裙; when they worked, men in the Han Dynasty wore a broken skirt断襦, lowered their nose pants犊鼻裤, and covered their clothes with sarongs罩布裙. This kind of costume can be used by farmers.

The clothing of the Tang Dynasty唐代 was a link between the previous and the next. Law clothes法服 are traditional dresses, including crowns, diadems, clothes, and skirts冠、冕、衣、裳; ordinary clothes常服, also known as official clothes公服, are clothes worn on general formal occasions, including round-neck robes圆领袍衫, bats幞头, leather belts革带, and boots长筒靴. Pin color clothing品色衣 has formed a system in the Tang Dynasty. More civilians are dressed in white. The updo髻式 style of women in the Tang Dynasty is complicated. There are also gold hairpins金钗 and rhino combs犀牛梳篦 on the buns髻鬓, and noble women's facial makeup is goose yellow鹅黄, flower tin花钿, and makeup妆靥.

Hanfu汉服 is the traditional national costume of the Han people in China, also known as Huafu. Hanfu is the traditional national costume of the Han people in China. Its origin can be traced back to the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors until the Ming Dynasty. For thousands of years, the Chinese people (Han people) have not changed the basic characteristics of their costumes.

Since the Emperor Huangdi皇帝 draped his clothes and ruled the world during the Yanhuang炎黄Dynasty, Hanfu has taken on a basic form. After the standardization of the Zhou Dynasty周代, it has been comprehensively perfected and popularized by the Han Dynasty汉代, and the Han people's Hanfu got its name.

Hanfu is a very beautiful costume，which can best embody the Han people's elegant and handsome, graceful, and beautiful and dignified temperament.

China is the first country in the world to invent silk (sericulture and silk reeling). The inventor who made the great contribution of inventing silk (sericulture, reeling and woven silk) was the wife of the great ancestor Xuanyuan轩辕 emperor, Leizu嫘祖.