The Evolution of Chinese Traditional Clothing Throughout the Ages

1. Transformation period of clothing in Sui and Tang dynasties

Due to the stable development of political and economic development in Sui and Tang dynasties, the change of clothing in this period is a transitional period in history. It is the source of the historical costume, and the source of the costume system of the later generations. Men's regular clothing for turban, robe shirt, wearing boots. But at this time the robe shirt and the previous dynasty is slightly different, the style for the round neck, right overlap, narrow sleeves, the leader of the train without edge.

2, the Song dynasty clothing tends to be conservative

Song dynasty clothing, largely inherited from the former Tang dynasty, but there are slight differences in clothing styles and names. Song dynasty lack of crotch robe shirt style has wide sleeves and narrow sleeves tight body two kinds. Wear pasted and half-armed habit is extremely common, but can not be worn as a dress.

3, Liao, Jin and Yuan period dress

Liao, Jin and Yuan period dress both Han's dress system and national characteristics. Liao and Jin men's costumes were mostly round-necked, sleeved crotchless robes, with long boots or pointed boots, pants underneath, and belts around the waist. Men's clothing in the Yuan Dynasty, the Han's round neck, cross-collar robe, but also the national quality of the Sun clothing, its shape is similar to the deep clothes, narrow and thin sleeves, the lower garment is shorter, the length of the garment to the knee, in the waist there are countless pleats, shaped like the pleated skirt, in the waist, but also added a horizontal 襕.

4, the Ming and Qing dynasties dress changes

Ming dynasty dress in the Tang dynasty dress on the basis of the combination of Song and Yuan clothing form some elements, and generate their own dynasty dress style. Because the political ideology of the Ming Dynasty reached a level of conservatism unprecedented in Chinese history, the Ming style of dress also became restricted and closed.

5. The Republican Period to Modern Times

Till after the Opium War, the world opened the door of China forcibly, and after the Western clothes were imported at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Chinese people's costumes had a radical change. In the late Qing Dynasty, Western clothing and robes and coats coexisted everywhere in China. Since the Xinhai Revolution, the emergence of the Zhongshan suit and cheongsam is the most powerful product of the era of the combination of Chinese and Western.

Extended Information:

< p>Hanbok culture:

Traditional clothing Hanbok has two basic forms, namely, the system of upper garment and lower garment and the system of clothes and garments. The system of clothes on top and clothes underneath is said to have begun in the legendary era of the Yellow Emperor, and "Yi - Department of Rhetoric" reads, "The Yellow Emperor, Yao, and Shun put down their clothes and the world is ruled by them, and the cover is taken from the Qiankun." This legend can be unearthed in Gansu, colored pottery culture of pottery painting, be confirmed.

This can be said to be the basic form of China's earliest clothing system. Clothes on the bottom of the clothing system, according to the "interpretation of the name - interpretation of the clothes": "Where the clothes on the said clothes. Clothes, according to also, people rely on to avoid cold and heat. Under the said clothes. Clothing, barrier, so since the barrier also." The shape of the upper garment is mostly cross-necked right overlooking, the lower garment similar to the shape of the apron, the waist tie, the lower tie open. This kind of clothing system had a great influence on the later generations.

References:

Baidu Wikipedia - Chinese Traditional Clothing