The clothes worn by the Han people from the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the Ming Dynasty are called Hanfu. Hanfu is a traditional national costume handed down by the Han nationality for thousands of years, which can best reflect the characteristics of the Han nationality. Every nation has its own national costume, and Hanfu embodies the national characteristics of the Han nationality. During the thousands of years from the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the Ming Dynasty, the Han people, with their own wisdom, created a rich and colorful Hanfu culture and developed a unique clothing system-Hanfu system. The profound, well-organized, well-established and beautiful Hanfu is a rare treasure in China, which is worthy of every China person's pride. Objectively speaking, the national costumes of the Han nationality in some historical stages, such as China's flag dress/cheongsam/mandarin jacket, can never be called "Hanfu" because there is no normal evolution and convergence with the real Hanfu.

General characteristics

The main characteristics of Hanfu are horizontal collar and right lap. Instead of buttons, they are tied with ropes, giving people an impression of freedom and elegance. These characteristics are obviously different from the costumes of other nationalities. Hanfu can be divided into formal clothes and regular clothes. From the shape point of view, there are mainly three kinds: "top and bottom clothes" (ancient top refers to bottom skirt), "deep clothes" (top and bottom clothes are sewn together) and "skirt" (short clothes). Among them, the coronation under the coat is the most solemn and formal dress for emperors and officials; Robes (deep clothes) are generally worn by officials and scholars, while skirts are worn by women. Ordinary working people generally wear short clothes and trousers. Accessories headdress is one of the important parts of Han costumes. Ancient Han men and women put their hair in a bun and fixed it on their heads. Men often wear crowns, towels, hats and so on. , different shapes. Women's hair can also be combed into various styles, and they can wear all kinds of beading, walking and other accessories. The temples on both sides are richly decorated, and some wear curtain caps and hijabs.

Men's style:

"The Yellow Emperor ruled the world by hanging down his clothes" has spread since the Qing Dynasty (represented by the costumes of Qin and Han Dynasties) and lasted for Xia, Shang, Zhou (Spring and Autumn and Warring States), Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Five Dynasties, Song, Mongolia and Ming Dynasties, and influenced Japan, North Korea and other countries. This is the most common style of Japanese kimono.

T-shirts popular since Sui and Tang Dynasties (worn by Emperor Taizong and Li Shimin) continued in Tang Dynasty, Five Dynasties, Song Dynasty, Mongolia, Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, and influenced Japan, Korea and other countries. Song Taizu and Ming Taizu wear this kind of clothes. So far, the clothes worn by the Japanese emperor on some occasions are all variants of this Hanfu.

There are relatively many styles of women's wear, but there are only two basic models.

Large breasted right collar (also represented by Qin and Han costumes).

Different from the deep clothes in Qin and Han dynasties, the big-breasted and low-breasted clothes in Sui and Tang dynasties were divided into top and bottom clothes, and the clothes were no longer connected together like deep clothes. These two styles of women's clothing had a great influence on the national costumes (women's clothing) in Song and Ming Dynasties and in Japan and South Korea. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Han women also wore Hu clothes with narrow sleeves and tight lapels, but those Hu clothes were basically worn as fashion clothes (or out of curiosity), rather than traditional Han clothes. During the Song and Ming Dynasties, Han women also wore some other styles, but the influence was not wide.

You can see that the costumes of Qin, Han, Tang, Song and Ming are different in some places, but the main parts are the same. The deep clothes in the Western Han Dynasty are the same as those in the Ming Dynasty, but they are different in details. * * * Sex is big chest, right collar, wide robe and big sleeves. In fact, Hanfu, like big shirts, wide robes and big sleeves, was still worn by Han people in the Tang Dynasty, but in the north centered on Chang 'an, it was mainly round neck, while in wuyue, it was similar in the Song and Ming Dynasties. It was during the Nara period of Niao (China Tang Dynasty) that Japanese kimono was introduced to China and developed into today's Japanese kimono.

What is the style of Han costumes? If we compare the Han nationality with the European nationality, we will find that they are obviously different in many ways. For thousands of years, the overall style of Han costumes has been light and simple. The ancient robes of the Han nationality can best reflect this style. The main feature of this kind of robe is its wide sleeves and simple shape, but once it is worn on people, it is different, looks different and has strong plasticity. Although we can't see all kinds of prototypes of this kind of clothing now, from the silk paintings of Han Dynasty and some figure paintings left over from Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties, we can still get a glimpse of its divine feature-the simple Chinese coat attached to people with different postures, which suddenly has a fresh vitality, soft and smooth lines and makes people think. Simple and plain clothes add a natural charm to them. Robe clothing fully embodies the national character of the Han nationality, which is soft, quiet, elegant, detached and calm, as well as the aesthetic taste of simplicity, naturalness, tactfulness, elegance and freshness.