About the characteristics and culture of Qing Dynasty costumes

1, thousands of years of traditional clothing system handed down from generation to generation, due to the eight banners soldiers into the customs, and was destroyed, and replaced by unfamiliar foreign clothing.

The Qing Dynasty in the history of China's clothing is a more special historical period, it is dominated by Manchu costumes and attire, with the typical characteristics of the northern nomadic people, which is the ruler of the Qing Dynasty with violence and ban on mandatory people to change clothes, resulting in the ancient Chinese clothing in the last feudal dynasty has undergone a major mutation.

2, thousands of years of broad robes and big sleeves, skirt and crown, dashing and vivid, delicate and soft Han tradition has been destroyed and changed. And in sharp contrast to the short and narrow sleeves, simple and solemn Manchu flag dress has achieved dominance. The flag dress is characterized by saving materials, easy production and convenient wearing.

3, the Qing dynasty clothing in spite of the appearance of the form of the spelling abandoned many of the traditional basic form, but its inner things have not changed, the spirit of its essence and the whole of the Chinese national clothing culture is the same lineage. It not only reflects the customary characteristics of the nation, but also retains the content of the hierarchical system inherited from thousands of years, however, the complexity of the provisions of the chapter of the rules of the red tape, but more than successive generations.

4, the Qing dynasty clothing is the last stage of the development of ancient Chinese clothing, the process ended with the destruction of the last feudal dynasty. Although the ancient Chinese costume has ended its course, yet it shows a significance far beyond itself.

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Basic Characteristics of Costume:

The Tang Dynasty was an era of high political and economic development, cultural and artistic prosperity in China, and an era of brilliant and glorious feudal culture. The Tang Dynasty unified the chaotic division of the Wei, Jin, North and South Dynasties and Sui, and established a unified and strong country, with developed foreign trade transactions, great development of productive forces, and a longer period of national prosperity and peace.

Especially when the Tang Dynasty became the center of economic and cultural exchanges among Asian peoples, it was the most glorious page in the history of Chinese culture. This period absorbed Indian and Iranian culture and integrated into our culture, from murals, stone carvings, carvings, books, paintings, silk embroidery, terracotta figurines and costumes, fully reflected the strength of that time.

By the time of the Sui and Tang dynasties, the most obvious feature of Chinese dress was the two-track system. In big ceremonial occasions, Hanfu was worn. In normal times, the regular dress of the Tang Dynasty was the hu (i.e. Xianbei) system.

1, slow bundle Luo skirt half exposed chest

Slow bundle Luo skirt half exposed chest, not just anyone can do. In the Tang Dynasty, only people with status can wear open-breasted shirt, Princess Yongtai can be half-bare breasted, songstresses can be half-bare breasted to please the ruling class, while the women of the common people's house is not allowed to half-bare breasted. At that time, the half-breasted dresses of the Tang Dynasty were somewhat similar to modern Western night dresses, except that they were not allowed to show their shoulders and backs.

2, 襦裙半臂穿戴

襦裙半臂穿戴--襦裙半臂这种服饰早在初唐即已出现；不仅在中原地区流行，西北地区的妇女也同样喜欢襦裙半臂穿戴，半臂是从短襦延边出来的一种服饰，一般都用对襟，穿在胸前结带。 There are also a small number of "jacket" style, worn from the top under the set, wide neckline, the chest-like.

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