Comparison of Hu Clothing and Han Clothing

Hu clothing is the ancient Xia Han people of the West and the northern tribes of the Hu people wore the clothing of the general term, that is, the extra-territorial ethnic Xirong and East Hu clothing, and the Central Plains at the time of the Han Chinese broad belt style, there is a big difference between the Han. Later, it was also referred to as the clothing of foreigners other than the Han Chinese clothing. The hu clothing generally wear short close-fitting clothes, long pants and leather boots. The characteristics of hu clothing are knee-length, tight and narrow pants, a waist girdle with a Guo Luo belt, belt hooks, and boots, which make it easy to ride and shoot. Therefore, Hu clothing is more suitable to be used as military attire, hunting clothes, etc..

Hanbok, also known as Hanbok, the traditional dress of the Han Chinese people, also known as Hanbok, Chinese dress, is from the reign of the Yellow Emperor (about 2698 BC) to the end of the Ming Dynasty (17th century AD) in this 4,000 years, to the center of the Chinese culture of etiquette, through successive dynasties of the Han Chinese people to promote the rituals of the Zhou Dynasty, the image of heaven and law of the earth and the formation of a thousand years of unchanged ceremonial dress and crown system. The basic features of Hanfu are cross-necked, right-over-obeating, knotted with rope and belt, and also with hooks, etc., and supplemented by dish collar and straight collar. Generally speaking, the Hanbok system is complete and rigorous, but the clothing is broader, more complex structure, wearing a grand, graceful, generous and extremely inflexible. Therefore, Hanfu is more suitable to be used as ceremonial clothing.

Summarizing, the difference between the two can be summarized as different systems, different structures, different shapes, different materials, and different occasions.