How beautiful are the women of the Republic of China wearing cheongsam. You will move after seeing these photos.

The Republic of China is a haunting era. Although sixty or seventy years have passed, every time I think about it, I always think it happened yesterday. Especially every time I go to Nanjing Shichaohui to eat, I see the waiters in the store wearing the clothes of Republican students, and I have this feeling even more. Looking back at the Republic of China, those women wearing gorgeous cheongsams, their eyes, brows, and gestures were all oriental charm and gentleness.

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The cheongsam above was worn by Yan Youyun, a socialite in the Republic of China, and was later exhibited in Shanghai. Yan is the granddaughter of Yan Xiaofang, the first female class of Fudan University in Shanghai and the first president of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce. She is the wife of Gu Weijun, a senior official of the Protocol Department of the United Nations and the famous diplomat. We are not sure whether she is still alive. We only know that the exhibition She is 107 years old.

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Zhao Yidi, known as "Miss Zhao Si", lived with Zhang Xueliang for 36 years before she became an official wife. The two got married in Taiwan in 1964 . The picture above was taken by her (third from left) in Shanghai with her relatives and friends when she was young.

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In 1938 in New York, the United States, a parade and fundraising event was organized by overseas Chinese. A wave of Chinese beauties held up banners to raise funds. They could still show elegance and confidence in the face of a national crisis. It disappeared many years later...

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After the San Francisco and New York World Expos in 1939, China gradually moved away from the World Expo stage. It was not until 1982 that New China returned to the World Expo stage and participated in the Knoxville World Expo in the United States for the first time. The picture above is an old photo of the San Francisco World Expo that China participated in 70 years ago.

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This photo is said to have been taken at a flea market. In a group photo of popular stars in Shanghai in the 1940s, you can only roughly see the shadow of Ruan Lingyu, but I haven’t looked closely at the rest. identify.

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The above two pictures were published in "Liangyou" magazine in 1935. At that time, the cheongsam was also a fashionable sweeping cheongsam, and wearing a cape was even more fashionable. Moreover, the tailoring has been a combination of Chinese and Western styles. Some do not have the traditional placket of cheongsam, and the design of the cuffs has also changed to fluffy lotus leaf sleeves.

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There are also postures. The akimbo image represented by Zhang Ailing seems to be very popular with everyone.

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Wang Yuling, the widow of the famous anti-Japanese general Zhang Lingfu, was a true beauty of the Republic of China with both internal and external qualities.

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This is Xiamen in 1939. A group of women visiting the park make people feel that the atmosphere of the Republic of China is so within reach.

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There is also this photo taken at the Temple of Heaven. Do you feel that the aura of the so-called "women of the new era" is far inferior?

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Zhou Xuan, a beautiful woman who doesn’t need any extra words.

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The three Song sisters wore really many cheongsams throughout their lives.

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Hang Xuying, one of the earliest commercial artists in my country, designs product packaging and calendar cards mostly based on cheongsam beauties. This is a picture of boating on the West Lake, which is really good. .