What is the definition and characteristics of "Hanfu"?

1. Definition of Hanfu

(1) Hanfu, the full name is "Traditional Costumes of the Han Nationality", also known as Han Clothing, Han Clothing, and Chinese Clothing. It was worn from the Yellow Emperor's accession to AD 17 In the middle of the century (late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty), in the main residential areas of the Han people, with the "Chinese-Han" culture as the background and dominant ideology, and with the Chinese etiquette culture as the center, the unique Han nationality style and character were formed through natural evolution. The traditional clothing and accessories system is different from other ethnic groups. It is 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 inherits them. More than 30 items of Chinese intangible cultural heritage and protected Chinese arts and crafts have been collected.

(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.

2. Characteristics of Hanfu

The main feature of Hanfu is the flat cut and wide laces on the lower body.

Hanfu is a complete clothing system, in which the dress must have the following characteristics: cross collar and right hem, wide and long sleeves, hidden button laces, top and bottom skirt (cháng pronunciation: Chang); among them On this basis, regular clothes have many variations. For example, in addition to crossed collars, there are also plate collars, straight collars, etc. as supplements. In fact, the sleeve type, collar type, waist height, accessory matching, and wearing style of regular clothes , cutting methods, etc. are very colorful.

3. In various folk activities around the world, all ethnic groups wear their own national costumes. However, the Han nation, which has a brilliant civilization for thousands of years, has lost its own national costumes. In ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, a nation may not have national writing, but it cannot be without national costumes. As an integral part of the glorious Chinese culture, Han nationality costumes are also one of the brightest pearls in the history of world costume art. Hanfu has been dominant for more than two thousand years and has had a decisive impact on the development of clothing culture of various ethnic groups around China. Hanfu is the national costume of the Han nationality in China. It can be traced back to the Yanhuang Dynasty, when the Yellow Emperor hung down his clothes and ruled the world, and it was a clothing system that evolved into the Song and Ming Dynasties. For thousands of years and through various dynasties, "Hanfu" has gradually become a cultural symbol of self-identity for the Han people. ?