The Cultural Sum of Confucian Rituals and Clothing System, Introduction to Hanbok Culture

Hanbok is the cultural sum of Confucian rituals and dress system in our country, since the Three Emperors and Five Emperors continue to this day (the Qing Dynasty was forced to interrupt), through successive inheritance of perfecting themselves, Hanbok culture is a very mature and self-contained millennium of culture. Will eh down, let's go together to understand about the introduction of Hanbok.

China is also known as "Huaxia", the origin of this name is related to Hanfu. The Chinese dynasty emphasizes on the rituals of clothing. The Zhou Yi - Department of Rhetoric said "is since the days of blessing, auspicious and unfavorable, the Yellow Emperor, Yao, Shun hanging clothes and the rule of the world, cover from the Qiankun." The Duke of Zhou made the Zhou Rites and ruled the world, and was honored as a sage by Confucianism. Zhou rituals through the "rituals", "Zhouli", "Rites of Passage" of the clothing and ceremonies to show, and thus clothing, etiquette is often used to stand in for civilization, hanbok is the carrier of etiquette.

"Spring and Autumn Left" justice: "Xia, also big. China has a great etiquette, so called summer; the beauty of the chapter of clothing, called China. Hua, summer a also." China and Xia are all called China, and called the Huaxia, Xia, also big. The word has the etiquette of the great, there are articles of China also. China, smart and wise knowledge of the residence. All the property of the gathering also, the teaching of the wise and holy also, the implementation of benevolence and righteousness also, the poetry and music used also. "Pro was taught by the king, since China, clothing, customs, filial piety and fraternal duty, living in etiquette and righteousness, so it is called China". Shangshu Justice note: "Coronation clothing pick chapter is said to be China, the big country is said to be summer."

Since ancient times, China has been known as "the country of clothing, etiquette," and "clothing" has become synonymous with civilization. At the time of the Five Husband Rebellion, the nobles and commoners in the Central Plains fled to the south of the Yangtze River, preserving the seeds of civilization in the Central Plains, and gradually developing the south of the Yangtze River into a prosperous and affluent place, an event known as "the south of the clothes and crown".

The Han Chinese clothing system demonstrates the hierarchical culture of Chinese civilization, kinship culture, political culture, the importance of the first over the common people, the importance of the eldest over the young, as well as the Confucian ideology of benevolence and righteousness. In the context of the patriarchal culture of ancient China, the dress has the role of showing the name, recognizing the equal prestige, and distinguishing the noble and the lowly.

The term "Chinese dress" was first documented in the "Mawangdui Tomb No. 3": Jane 4.4, "four beauties, two of whom were in Chinese dress, two in Chinese dress". The earliest documentary records, is the Eastern Han Dynasty Cai Yong's "dictatorship": "Tongtian Crown: the son of God's regular clothes, Han suit by the Qin, "Rites" without text." , the earliest positive historical record is found in the "Book of Han": "(Princess Guzi) after a number of visits to congratulate, music Han clothing system, return to their country, rule the palace, make diabolic road Zhou Wei, in and out of the call, hit the bells and drums, such as the Han family rituals." Directly related to the Han Dynasty reconstruction of the Zhou dress system system. Just as the traditional dress of the Hu people was called "Hu clothes", the traditional dress of China was called "Han clothes". Therefore, the basic connotation of the term "hanfu" was later fixed, i.e. traditional Han Chinese dress.

Throughout its long history, "Hanfu" has gradually become a cultural symbol of Han people's self-identification. In the Tang Dynasty, Fan Chuo's book explicitly called the costumes of the Tang Dynasty "Han Clothes". In the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, some foreign chiefs also explicitly used "Han clothes" to refer to Han people's clothing, such as "Liao since Taizong entered the Jin Dynasty, the emperor and the southern class of Han officials with Han clothes; Empress Dowager and the northern class of Qidan bureaucrats with the national dress, the Han clothes that is, the legacy of the five generations of the Jin Dynasty," the Yuan Dynasty, the revision of the Liao History even dedicated a special section to the "Liao History". Liao history" and even specifically for the Chinese dress to open up a "Han" article.

1645 AD, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in order to destroy the national will of the Han Chinese, in the capture of Jiangnan immediately issued a "shaved hair and easy to serve order", June 15, 1645 lunar calendar, the promulgation of shaving order, the Han Chinese people strictly shaved, followed by July 9, lunar calendar, ordered the "clothing", "all comply with the system of the dynasty". All comply with the system of this dynasty", strict orders in a few months to abandon the Han Chinese dress, change to wear Manchu clothing, violators beheaded, stretched more than 4,000 years of Han Chinese culture in the Manchu government's brutal and violent under the decree of the sudden demise.