Introduction to Hanfu Introduction to Hanfu

1. Hanfu, the full name is "Traditional Costumes of the Han Nationality", also known as Han Clothes, Han Clothes, and Chinese Clothing. It was the style of Han nationality from the accession of the Yellow Emperor to the middle of the 17th century (late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty). The main residential area is based on the "Chinese-Han" culture as the background and dominant idea, with the Chinese etiquette culture as the center, and has a unique Han nationality style and character formed through natural evolution, which is obviously different from the traditional clothing and accessories system of other ethnic groups. The embodiment of China's "land of clothes", "land of etiquette", "splendid China", and the country of Seris, it carries the Han people's outstanding craftsmanship and aesthetics such as dyeing, weaving and embroidery, and has inherited more than 30 Chinese intangible cultural heritage and protected of Chinese arts and crafts.

2. Similar to the word Han people, the denotation of the word "Han" in Hanfu has also been expanded from the Han Dynasty to refer to the entire nation. For example, the earliest record of "Hanfu" in "Mawangdui Tomb No. 3": "Jian Sisi 'Four beauties, two of them are in Chu clothes, and two are in Han clothes.'" The "Hanfu" in it refers to the costumes of the Han Dynasty. The etiquette system is the system of official uniforms in "Zhou Li", "Etiquette", and "Book of Rites"; it is recorded in "Manshu" written in the Tang Dynasty: "I first adopted Han costumes, and then a little bit with the customs of the Rong, but so far only Zhaoxia The "Hanfu" in "Tangle your hair, everything else is the same" refers to the clothing and etiquette system of the Han people.

3. Hanfu "began from the Yellow Emperor and was prepared by Yao and Shun" and originated from the crown uniform made by the Yellow Emperor. It was finalized in the Zhou Dynasty, and through the Han Dynasty, a complete crown service system was formed based on the Four Books and Five Classics, and became part of the Shinto teachings. Therefore, all subsequent Chinese dynasties all followed the Zhou Fa and Han Dynasties and regarded the inheritance of Han clothes and crowns as a national event, so there was a public opinion in the Twenty-Four Histories. "The Yellow Emperor, Yao, and Shun used their clothes to rule the world, and the benefits were taken from the universe." This means that the shape of the upper and lower garments was determined by heaven's will and is sacred. Hanfu has also influenced the entire Han cultural circle through the Chinese legal system. The costumes of some ethnic groups in Asian countries, such as Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia, Bhutan, etc., all have or draw lessons from the characteristics of Hanfu.