What are the styles and characteristics of the Manchu cheongsam?

Manchu cheongsam Cheongsam is the traditional dress of Manchu women. The cheongsam is characterized by a standing collar, a large right lapel, a tight waist and a slit at the hem. The ancient cheongsam has pipa lapel, Ruyi lapel, oblique lapel, piping or edging and so on. After the 1920s, the cheongsam was improved to have a loose waist, wide cuffs, and moderate length, making it easy to walk. It has become a more popular garment for Chinese women. In the early thirties, influenced by the short skirts of the West, the length was shortened to near the knee and the cuffs were narrowed. In the mid-1930s, it was lengthened again, with high slits on both sides, emphasizing the curvature of women's body shape. In the 1940s, the cheongsam was shortened, short-sleeved or sleeveless, and streamlined. Later, the front and back of the garment were separated, and there were shoulder seams and sleeve-type cheongsam dresses and so on. The cheongsam has oriental colors, can fully show the elegance and elegance, is considered to be the expression of the female beauty of the typical national costume, known around the world.

The cheongsam is basically the same as the men's style, but with more decorations. Women's cheongsam is also in addition to the upright wide-breasted large-sleeved gown, hem and calf, with embroidered decorations. Manchu women are often in the lapel, collar, sleeve edge, etc., inlaid with a few flower patterns or color teeth, commonly known as "painting Roader" or "dog teeth". According to the seasonal changes, can also be divided into single, clip, cotton, leather and so on.

Social development, men's cheongsam gradually abandoned, women's cheongsam continues to evolve, from the wide waist straight gradually became a tight fit curve, streamlined, and became the representative of the Chinese nation of a women's clothing.

It is a garment worn by Manchu men, women and children all year round, with simple cut, garden collar, wide front and back placket, and narrow sleeves, four-piece cut, and longer slit, which makes it easy to mount and dismount; narrow sleeves, which makes it easy to shoot arrows. Because the mouth of the sleeve is attached to the horseshoe-shaped sleeve guard, also known as the horseshoe sleeve. In the Manchu people gradually out of the riding career, horseshoe sleeves have become decorative, and put down the horseshoe sleeves is still the Manchu people to the elders, honored the ritual of homage.

The cheongsam is more decorative than the male cheongsam. The collar, front and cuffs are decorated with embroidery. With the change of time, the cheongsam style has changed a lot, and the four-piece cut system has been changed to two-piece cut system. The cheongsam can well express women's body and curves. The picture shows the vest worn by Manchu women over the cheongsam. It is embroidered with delicate patterns. A Manchu woman wearing a cheongsam for a court dance. Men wearing traditional Manchu cheongsams, including a robe with arrow sleeves and a vest, and a Manchu male hat.

Called "yuijie". Divided into single, folder, leather, cotton four kinds. This "clothes are even clothes" (ancient on the clothes, under the clothes) and the Han Chinese on the clothes under the clothes of the two cuts of the clothes are clearly different. It is the Manchu men like to dress, also known as the big shirt, robe. Manchu men wear cheongsam, its style and structure are relatively simple, the original Manchu riding and shooting with a round neck (no collar after the customary plus a false collar), lapel, narrow sleeves, four-sided open purification, left-over-oblong, with a buckle trip, belt, suitable for horseback riding and hunting. Manchu women wear cheongsam, beautiful and generous style, pay attention to the decoration, collar, sleeve head, lapel are embroidered with different colors of lace, some as much as a dozen ways, wear up proportionate slim, graceful. There is a women's cheongsam called "big sleeves", the pattern embroidered in the sleeve, "pull" out more beautiful. Manchu women wear cheongsam, from style to workmanship are very sophisticated. In the cheongsam collar, lapel, sleeve edges inlaid with a few flower strips or colorful teeth, and some have to be set on 18 edges to be considered beautiful. The style of the cheongsam later underwent some changes, open purification from four sides changed into two sides; hem also changed from wide to convergence; cuffs also changed from narrow to fat, but also from fat to skinny, so that it wears up more fit. Now wear cheongsam is not limited to Manchu women, it has become one of the general favorite clothing of women of all nationalities.