Does traditional Han Chinese dress conform to ancient rituals?

Compliant. In ancient times, there was a great demand for "proper attire". A person's spiritual appearance and social class can be seen from the outside. As a part of a person's life, clothing is closely related to the entire feudal hierarchy.　In ancient times, there were only two kinds of people who did not tie their hair: children and barbarians. "In ancient times, there were only two types of people who did not have their hair tied back, and those were the children and the barbarians. When a person reaches adulthood, he or she has to undergo a crown ceremony. Crowning ceremony comes from the clan rite of passage in primitive society. It was transformed by Confucianism into a crown ceremony. The Crown Ceremony is conducted by a virtuous person in the township, who changes the dress of the young man who has become an adult and teaches him. The process of performing the crown rite includes combing the hair in a bun.

The Han Chinese hair style is unchanged for thousands of years, with men tying their hair at the top of their heads after the age of fifteen, and after the age of twenty, they add a crown to choose a non-yearly year, known as the Crown Ceremony. The filial piety scripture cloud: "body hair and skin received by parents, not to be lightly destroyed". Han Chinese men basically do not cut their hair since adulthood.

Confucius once said, "I have to wear my hair over my head". The clothes of the ancients were all right-reng, while the uncivilized barbarians were all left-reng, and also the birthday clothes worn by the dead were left-reng, so if a person's clothes were worn as left-reng they would definitely be regarded as barbarians or mentally ill. Confucius puts Zuoreng together with Phi, which is enough to show the importance of tying one's hair. In the early years of the Chu people, because they often wore their hair loose, it became a racial symbol and was despised by all, and the Chu people were referred to as "barbarians with hair". However, the "Jing barbarians" are not ashamed, on the contrary, has been more or less maintained this phenomenon.

About the ancient people's attire style, in fact, it is not difficult to find, many ancient books, literature, calligraphy and painting have . And the ancients had very strict rules in the hair, is an important part of the ancient Chinese traditional etiquette, cloak hair, or half-cloak hair for an adult is regarded as a kind of challenge to the etiquette, especially women, cloak hair means and the family or husband to break, can see how important the hair in ancient times.