Is hanbok considered ancient clothing? Is there any connection between costume and hanbok? What is the definition of ancient clothing?

Ancient clothing is a temporal concept of clothing relative to today's fashion, generally refers to the classical Chinese temperament and flavor of the dress.

Hanbok, the full name is "Han National Traditional Costume", also known as Han Clothing, Han Clothing, Chinese Clothing, is from the reign of the Yellow Emperor to the middle of the 17th century A.D. (the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty) in the Han's main residential areas, to "Huaxia - Han" culture as the background and the dominant "culture as the background and dominant idea, to the Chinese ceremonial culture as the center, through the natural evolution and the formation of a unique Han national style character.

The word "costume", it does not have a national meaning, it is only a time definition, where the time is in ancient times of the clothing, can be categorized into the costume.

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Ancient Clothing:

Ancient Hanbok

Hanbok is divided into ancient Hanbok and modern Hanbok. Which through the efforts of modern people, and thus develop a more adapted to modern life that is the modern Hanbok, that is, Han elements, while the ancient Hanbok is the most traditional unmodified.

Hanbok, which has been the basic form since the Yellow Emperor, Yao, Shun, and the world's rule, has been inherited through the Zhou Dynasty rituals and laws, to the Han Dynasty to form a perfect system of clothing and popularized to the people, but also through the Confucianism and the Huaxia system of law affects the entire Han cultural circle. Japan, Korea, Vietnam have enacted laws to emulate the Han system.

Two, the Yuan Dynasty dress

The Yuan Dynasty clothing system is similar to the Liao, Jin and Song. The Yuan Dynasty was ruled by the Mongols, so the Yuan Dynasty costumes were also more special.

Mongolians more forehead hair into a small lock, like a peach, the rest is braided into two braids, and then wrapped into two large ring hanging behind the ears, head wearing hats. Yuan dynasty people's clothing is mainly "quality Sun clothing" is a shorter robe, tighter, narrower, in the waist has a lot of folds, this kind of clothing is very convenient to get on and off the horse.

Three, the Qing dynasty flag dress

Opera performances in the Qing dynasty dress. During the Kangxi period, there were already Qing costumes on the opera stage. For example, Kong Shangren's "Peach Blossom Fan", the last of which is "Aftermath", the script states: "Deputy net time dress dressed as soap clerk dark on". The "time dress" is the costume of the Qing Dynasty. The play was first performed by the Jindou Ban in the 39th year of the Kangxi period (1700).

A number of Qing Dynasty story plays appeared in the late Qing Dynasty, and the increase in Qing costumes was still small. In addition to the reasons mentioned above, it is also due to the fact that the costume of the opera traditionally does not focus on the specificity of showing the historical details of a particular dynasty or generation. In the last hundred years retained in the traditional wardrobe box of the more obvious Qing costume, that is, the horse coat, arrow clothes, latitude cap and so on a few kinds, and made different degrees of artistic processing.

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