What is Manchu costume?

Men's robes and robes are split on both sides, and the belt is convenient for riding and shooting. Among them, "Arrow Sleeve" (Manchu: Wow-Ha) has its own characteristics. It is a semicircular sleeve head connected with a narrow cuff, which looks like a horseshoe, commonly known as "horseshoe sleeve". When hunting or fighting in winter, it is usually rolled up and put down to cover the back of the hand to keep out the cold. Later, it became a prescribed action in the etiquette of the Qing Dynasty.

Young women wear wide straight cheongsam, feet, flower shoes, flowerpot bottom and boat bottom. In the early days, the rich wore linen clothes and the poor wore deerskin.

Manchu etiquette:

Manchu attaches importance to etiquette. In the past, the younger generation gave their elders a small gift for three days and a big gift for five days. The younger generation should worship for three days and kowtow to the elders every five days. The form of paying thousands is different for men and women. The man bends down, his right hand reaches out and his left hand supports his knees, as if lifting something, and the woman crouches with her hands on her knees. When you meet an elder you don't know on the road, you should bow your head and ask "Saiyin" (Manchu, good meaning).

If you are riding a horse, you should dismount at the side of the road and get out of the way, then get on the horse and go forward. When friends and relatives from afar meet, both men and women will hold their waists and give gifts in person.

The funeral of Manchu also has an evolutionary process. Influenced by the natural geographical environment and other factors, the funeral ceremonies of Manchu ancestors were simple and crude, and once appeared in the form of celestial burial, earth burial, animal burial, tree burial, water burial and cremation.

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