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Malay children wearing traditional dresses during Hari Raya.. Pakaian (Jawi: ڤاکاين) is the term for clothing in Malaysia's national language.It is referring to things to wear such as shirts, pants, shoes etc. [1] Since Malaysia is a multicultural nation: Malay, Chinese, Indian and hundreds of other indigenous groups of Malay Peninsula and Borneo, each has its own traditional and ...
A Baju Kurung is a loose-fitting full-length dress, consisting of a blouse and a skirt. It is loosely translated as "enclosed dress". [4] Although Baju Kurung is the generic term of the attire for both males and females, in modern Malaysia, the female dress is referred to as Baju Kurung while the male dress is referred to as Baju Melayu.
Chinese bride wearing cheongsam with a honggaitou covering her face for wedding ceremony. The cheongsam (Chinese: 旗袍), or zansae also known as qipao, sometimes referred to as the mandarin gown, traces its origins to the Qing dynasty. [4] Cheongsam was the dress for Manchu women which become popular in Hong Kong and Shanghai after the fall ...
The first Chinese immigrants to settle in the Malay Archipelago arrived from Guangdong and Fujian provinces in the 10th century C.E. They were joined by much larger numbers of the Chinese in the 15th through 17th centuries, following on the heels of the Ming emperor's reopening of Chinese-Malay trade relations in the 15th century. [8]
Fengguan xiapei (Chinese: 凤冠霞帔) is a type of traditional Chinese wedding set of attire categorized under Hanfu, which was worn by Han Chinese women in Ming and Qing dynasties. [1] The fengguan xiapei attire was composed an upper and lower garment following the traditional Chinese yichang clothing system.
The six traditional rites involved in a Chinese wedding are as follows: [2] 納采 (nacai) – formal proposal; 問名 (wenming) – "ask the name", the groom's side ask the bazi (birth time) of the prospective bride for fortune telling; 納吉 (naji) – placement of the bazi at the ancestral altar to confirm compatibility
As one of the indigenous tribes of Borneo, the Murut community also has a unique kebaya-like traditional dress known as kuyu kebaya. This dress is made of black coloured velvet fabric and can be divided into two parts, the kebaya and the sarong. In the past, the kebaya was made plain, however, according to change of time, the kebaya is now made ...
A bride in Xiuhefu near Xiehemen. In general, the design and construction of the Xiuhefu is not bound by any traditional clothing making rules. [1] However, as a set of attire, it follows the traditional yichang system being typically composed of a waist-length liling dajin ao, a form of ao (a form of Chinese coat) which has front lapel overlapping across the chest and closing on the right ...