What is the difference between Chinese clothing and African?

African-style robes, characterized by loose and fat, sleeveless, collarless or short collar, simple style, adapted to the hot climate, wearing cool and comfortable. Some simplified as a piece of cloth, bare right arm, right shoulder, round neck open to the chest, the two sides of the opening from the shoulder to the knee, during the day when the clothes to wear, the night when the cover, in the desert area in the wind and sand and the hood. High status, rich people's robes are fine workmanship, fine texture, exquisite patterns, a luxury robe sewn by skilled tailors also need half a month to a month, like a work of art. Interestingly, the West African Allegheny, women show their faces and men wear veils, one of the very few ethnic groups in the world where men wear veils. "Veil people" people even at night also do not take off, when eating and drinking into a trouble, lifting the veil, with a hand to cover the mouth, nose, careful.

African women's clothing is much more complex. "The African woman is no exception to this rule. African women do not wear pants, usually only with African-style dress, the poor is a piece of cloth. This dress is generally bare shoulders, fabric color to bright red, green, indigo, violet as the main color, middle-aged and elderly women are mostly white, black. African women like bright colors, rugged patterns, bold lines of the dress, appearing both generous and elegant, but also eye-catching. Some places wrap cloth from the chest, waist to toe. Do not look down on a piece of cloth, it is in the African women's skillful sewing, with a variety of patterns, become a unique art appreciation. Some patterns have a unique flavor, C?te d'Ivoire's "fear of né" (the name of the dress) embroidered on the "four feet" means that couples are inseparable, "charcoal grilled fish" means that couples with the restaurant.

Headwear is an important part of African women's clothing. The "head project" is a key project for African women. Lack of beautiful headdress, it does not show the beauty of the dress, the two complement each other, reflect each other.

African hair is naturally curly, soft, elastic, close to the scalp, combing is not straight, can not make it down. Modification of curly hair, only close to the scalp from front to back, or from top to bottom braided into a small braid, the end of the braid with a green silk thread or gold silk thread tied tightly at the top of the head or the back of the head to close the knot; or will be divided into a number of subdivisions of the head, each braided into a small braid, or upright, or sagging, or curved. This pigtail is different from the Xinjiang Uyghur girls pigtails, because of its different hair texture, is not combed dozens of pigtails. Combing curly hair is quite time-consuming, and it is difficult to comb through with a normal comb, so you have to use a hardwood comb. Tanzania and Mozambique are rich in ebony, the Makonde people are skilled craftsmen of ebony carvings, ebony long-toothed comb has become the best combing tool. Even then, it takes half a day with the help of a sister. It usually takes half a month, a month or more to comb it. The hairstyles woven by skillful hands are peculiar, pretty, novel, lively, energetic, and full of symbolism. For example, the "big head and forehead hair" indicates respect and filial piety to elders, and the "wife-beating stick hair" indicates fidelity to the husband. There are also fish scale style, cob style, pineapple style, sheep style, chicken crown style, hump style, mushroom style, to name a few. Combed hair, firm and not scattered, hard-working and simple African women walking on their heads, fast as flying, is a great skill. African women attach importance to headdress, professional barber is quite popular, business is booming, and good at weaving headdresses, by the sisters of respect

China: from ancient times passed down the big lapel, right overlapping, cross collar, wide robe and big sleeves, Bo clothes wrapped with the kind (Qin and Han costumes as a representative), continued the Shang, Zhou (Spring and Autumn and Warring States), Qin, Han, the three kingdoms, the two Jin Dynasties, North and South Dynasties, Sui, Tang, the Five Dynasties, Song, Yuan, Ming, and affect Japan, Korea and other countries. Japan and Korea. The most common style of Japanese kimono is this one.

2, since the Sui and Tang dynasties began to prevail round neck shirt (worn by Tang Taizong Li Shimin) continued the Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, Yuan Dynasty, Ming, and influenced Japan, Korea and other countries. This type of clothing is commonly seen in the portraits of Emperor Taejo of Song and Emperor Taejo of Ming. To this day, the Emperor of Japan wears a variation of this type of Hanbok for certain occasions. Note that this round-necked robe is also right-over-right and fastens with a small round button near the right shoulder.

Women's clothing was similar to men's in the early days, when they also wore deep clothes, but later on they were predominantly 襦裙.

Han dress

The dress of the Han dynasties differed somewhat in certain places, but the main part was the same. The basic style of the Western Han's deep coat and the Ming's hanbok are the same, differing only in the minutiae.

During the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods, the dresses roughly followed those of the Shang Dynasty, with only slight changes. The style of clothes is slightly looser than the Shang Dynasty, there are two styles of sleeves, the collar general rectangular collar, no twisted buckle, generally in the waist belt, some on the belt is also hung with jade ornaments. At that time, there were two main types of belts: one made of silk fabric, called "big belt" or "Squire belt"; another belt made of leather, called "leather belt". At this time, the emergence of a deep train, compared with other clothing, in addition to the top and bottom of the garment connected to this feature, there is a clear difference, called "renewed obeisance hook edge". "Ovee" is the lapel, "renewed obeisance" is the lapel long, "hook edge" is to describe the style of the lapel. It changed the past clothing more in the hem slit tailoring method, the left lapel of the front and back piece of sewing, and the back piece of the lapel lengthening, lengthening the lapel to form a triangle, wear around to the back, and then tied with a belt.

The standard color of Qin clothing was black. However, the style was still large lapel with right overlapping collar. It was basically inherited from the Warring States period.

The men's clothing style in the Han Dynasty was roughly divided into two types: curved train and straight train. Curve train, that is, for the period of the Warring States period popular deep clothes, the Han Dynasty is still used, but mostly seen in the early Western Han Dynasty. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, men wearing a deep train were rare, and usually had a straight train, but it could not be used as a formal dress. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, not only were men allowed to wear a deep train, but it was also one of the most common types of women's clothing. This type of clothing was tight and narrow, long enough to traverse the ground, with a generally flared hemline, and the line did not reveal the feet. The sleeves are wide and narrow, and most of the cuffs are hemmed. The collar is very distinctive, usually with a cross collar, and the neckline is very low so as to reveal the inner garment. If you wear several pieces of clothing, each layer of the collar must be exposed to the outside, the most up to three or more layers, known as the "triple clothing". In addition, the Han Dynasty narrow-sleeved tightly wound lapel deep clothes. Clothes after several turns, around to the hips, and then tied with a silk belt, the clothes are also painted with beautiful and ornate patterns.

The straight train of the Han Dynasty was worn by both men and women. This kind of clothing as early as the Western Han Dynasty has appeared, but can not be used as a formal dress, the reason is that the ancient pants are no crotch, only two trouser legs set to the knee, with a belt tied at the waist. This kind of crotchless pants wear inside, if you don't use the coat to cover, the pants will be exposed, which at that time was considered disrespectful and irreverent things, so the outside to wear a deep coat with a train. Later, as the dress became more and more complete, the form of pants was improved, and pants with crotch (called "pants") appeared. Due to the improvement of the underwear, the curved train around the lapel coat has been redundant, so to the Eastern Han Dynasty, straight train gradually popularized, and replaced the deep coat.

Wei-Jin and Southern Dynasties period, men's clothing has the characteristics of the times, generally wear large-sleeved fluttering shirt. Until the period of the Southern Dynasties, such shirts were still preferred by men of all classes and became a momentary fashion.

Women's clothing in the Wei and Jin Dynasties inherited the legacy of the Qin and Han dynasties, and improved on the basis of tradition, generally wearing shirts, jackets and 襦, and wearing skirts underneath, most of the style is on the frugal under the abundant, part of the body of the garment is tight and fitted, with fat cuffs, and the skirt is a multi-folded tucked skirt, with the skirt length trailing on the ground and the hemline loose, so as to achieve the effect of handsome and dashing.

Tang Dynasty, officials in addition to wearing a round neck, narrow-sleeved robes, in some important occasions, such as ritual ceremonies still wear dress. The style of dress, more inherited from the Sui dynasty old system, head wearing conical cap or cage crown, wearing a lapel large-sleeved shirt, under a round garment, jade pendant group ribbon. 襦裙 was the main style of clothing for women in the Tang Dynasty. In the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty, women used small sleeves for their short jackets and wore long tight-fitting skirts, which were tied high at the waist, usually above the waist, and in some cases even under the armpits, and tied with ribbons, giving them a playful and slender look. In the Middle Tang Dynasty, the 襦裙's are wider than those of the early Tang Dynasty, and the others have not changed much.

Accessories

The headdress is one of the most important parts of the Han costume.

Ancient Han men and women put their hair in buns and coiled it on their heads after they came of age, and fixed it with matrices. Men often wore crowns, scarves, hats, etc., in a variety of shapes.

Women's hair buns can also be combed into a variety of styles, and in the bun with bead flowers, step rock and other ornaments. Sideburns on both sides of the sideburns, also wearing a hat, cap.

The shoes of ancient Hanfu are also very elaborate, and the shoes embodied in traditional paintings and operas are very different from those of other nationalities, some of which have thick soles, and the toes of the shoes are often decorated with upturned tips. The toes of the shoes are also turned upwards to avoid people stepping on the clothes and falling down.

The sword is also part of the ancient Han Chinese costume, and the scholar often wore a sword in formal dress.