Why don't Chinese people wear Chinese clothes?

1, because of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's "shaving hair and changing clothes", the Han people and Chinese clothing intergenerational interruption of more than two hundred years. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Western culture into China, suits into China, and Manchu robes and coats after a hundred years of brainwashing, but also has been y rooted in people's hearts, instead of feeling that the robes and coats is the national costume of the Han people.

2, modern people are relatively unfamiliar with the Han Chinese dress, the most familiar than the Manchu-style Tangqi cheongsam. Recognition of Hanfu mainly from the movie, TV series, that Hanfu is acting with, is the ancient costume. So, it is thought that Hanbok is not modern people wear, but the ancient people wear, is the ancient costume.

3, Hanbok is Hanbok, not just ancient clothes. It is the traditional clothing of the Han Chinese nation, inherited for thousands of years, the Hanbok system is about etiquette, is the embodiment of etiquette.

Expanded Information:

The rulers of the Qing Dynasty, in order to weaken the sense of national identity of the Han Chinese in order to maintain the rule of Manchuria, implemented the "shaving of hair and changing of clothes", and those who wore Chinese clothes and crowns and had their hair tied back were punished for serious crimes. After the Manchus entered the customs, ordered the Han Chinese shaved hair and easy to dress, "clothing and crown all respect the system of this dynasty".

Shunzhi first year (1644) in May, the regent Prince Heshuo Rui Oracle: "the castles in various places to send people with diabolic appeals ...... have said that the return of submissive and do not shave their hair, there are suspicions of the intention of waiting and waiting, it would be appropriate to check the local proximity, set a deadline, the period to the Beijing, the discretionary to the capital, discretionary grace, such as the limit does not come, apparently resistance, the If the deadline is not met, it is obvious that they are resisting, and they will be asked to be punished for their crimes." Since then, the Qing court issued many times on shaving hair and easy to dress.

Shunzhi two years, the Qing army captured the southern provinces, the Qing government from then on ordered the implementation of the system of shaving the head to change clothes. The Qing government once again issued a shaving order, requiring that "inside and outside the capital within ten days, the provinces directly under the local, since the Ministry of the day of arrival, also limited to ten days, to shave," if there are "still Ming system, not with the system of the dynasty, kill without mercy."

With this is forced to change the Han Chinese clothing style. At that time, countless people were arrested and killed for wearing Han Chinese clothes. The people of Jiangyin rose up to resist and held out for three months, and when the city broke down, all the people fought to the death, and none of the men, women, and children surrendered. The people of Jiading also persisted in the struggle for more than two months, and were brutally massacred by the Qing soldiers, which played out into a tragedy of unprecedented brutality in Chinese history.

At that time, the vast area of China, due to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the feudal rulers of the destruction of agriculture, handicrafts, as well as the official army on the agricultural ruler.... Uprising into the annihilation, has resulted in many places thousands of miles of deserted, devastated scene.

With this cruel policy came, is to change the crown to change clothes. Once again, the Qing court used a decree to force Han Chinese soldiers and civilians to wear Manchu clothing. Some peasants in the countryside, unaware of the court's decree, occasionally wore Ming Dynasty clothing into the city, most of them had to be stripped naked, and to be able to save their lives as luck. It is thus clear that the change of crown and dress, like the shaving of the hair, was introduced by means of coercion.

The long-term resistance of the Han Chinese made the Qing government consider making some concessions to stabilize the situation. So it put forward the so-called "ten from ten not from", that is, clothing male from female not from, life from death not from, yang from yin not from, official from subordinate not from, the old from the young not from, Confucianism from monasticism not from, advocate from Yu-ling not from; as well as civil service and thus the marriage is not from, the state number and thus the official name is not from, the service and tax and thus language and writing is not from.

This limited concession finally preserved some of the characteristics of the Han Chinese dress, but overall the Han Chinese dress is still in the Qing dynasty rulers force bloody suppression and massacre under the gradual extinction. It also led to the Qing Dynasty more than two hundred years of history, Han Chinese men's clothing is basically a model of Manchu clothing, cheongsam, long shirt, waistcoat are Manchu as the main body of the improvement and development of national dress, rather than the traditional Han Chinese national dress.

The Chinese dress itself disappeared under the ruling policy of shaving hair and changing clothes in the Qing Dynasty, but because of its strong vitality, some of its elements have not been extinct until the modern Han Chinese belief in Taoism, Buddhism and some remote mountain people, as well as many ethnic minorities in the country still maintain the characteristics of the Chinese dress, and some of the important rituals, commemorative activities and folk festivals in the modern society can still be seen in some parts of the Chinese dress. elements.

At the beginning of the 21st century, with the development of China's national power, people began to look at the best parts of their traditional culture. Some people recovered the traditional Han Chinese dress by examining the Han Chinese dress and taking the essence and removing the dregs. At the same time, by restoring the traditional festivals, restoring the traditional rituals, worshipping the sages, promoting the traditional doctrines, publicizing the traditional musical instruments, etc., they re-declared the restoration of the traditional Han Chinese dress and promoted it by wearing it, which is called the Han Chinese dress movement.

References:

Hanbok_Baidu Encyclopedia