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Chinese clothing, including traditional Hanfu, ethnic minority garments, and modern adaptations of indigenous styles, is a vital aspect of Chinese culture and civilization. For thousands of years, Chinese clothing has evolved with dynastic traditions, foreign influences, and cultural exchanges, adapting to the needs of each era. [1]
Women wearing the fengguan as part of their set of wedding clothing has been a long tradition in the area of Zhejiang. [11] The fengguan was a symbol of good fortune. [ 2 ] However, women who were remarrying for a second times and who were to be become a man's concubine were not allowed to wear fengguan .
Two women wearing cheongsam in a 1930s Shanghai advertisement. The cheongsam is a body-hugging (modified in Shanghai) one-piece Chinese dress for women; the male version is the changshan. It is known in Mandarin Chinese as the qípáo (旗袍; Wade-Giles ch'i-p'ao), and is also known in English as a mandarin gown.
Based on Han Chinese tombs of the Jin dynasty, it appears that ordinary Jurchen clothing may have been a symbol of lower class status as servants and lower-class women tend to be portrayed as wearing modified Jurchen-style clothing whereas women from the upper class wear Hanfu-style clothing. [147]
Also known as white gauze hat. It was worn by the sovereigns of Liu-Song and Southern Qi, it was later inherited by the Sui dynasty. [28] Adult White gauze hat. Northern and Southern dynasties – Sui Wusha Gaowu mao (烏紗高屋帽) High reach black gauze hat. See also, Long Guan: Adult Northern and Southern dynasties – Song Zhulu mao ...
List of informal wear Romanization Hanzi Definition Description Period Images Zhíjū: 直裾 Straight lapelled, full body garment. Pre-Qin – Han Qūjū: 曲裾 Diagonal body wrapped, full body garment. Pre-Qin – Han Kùzhě: 裤褶 Clothing with trousers for riding or military style clothing. [3] [4] A short coat with trousers. Pre-Qin ...
Chinese dragons continued to be used in the Qing dynasty in the imperial and court clothing. [1] [12] The types of dragons and their numbers of claws were regulated and prescribed by the imperial court. [1] When Chinese dragons are enclosed in roundels, they are referred as tuanlong (团龙); they can also be enclosed in mandarin square (buzi ...
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