Why do many Chinese weddings choose show clothes instead of Chinese dress?

Now the showbiz star wedding scraped a wave and a wave of Chinese dowry wind, so that a variety of Chinese dowry become a pop-up, itself Chinese dowry is very beautiful, and it is very pleasing to the elders of the favorite, because the phoenix crown Xiapi, is the most beautiful appearance of the Chinese bride.

Why do celebrities like to wear Chinese dowry? What are the traditional Chinese wedding dresses?

Today, the thoughtful editor will give you a peek at those little common sense of the Chinese wedding dress.

Generally speaking, there are five main categories of traditional Chinese wedding clothes, namely, show clothes, long phoenix coats, cheongsams, small phoenix fairy, and hanfu.

Xiuhe dress: Generally used in new Chinese wedding or Chinese wedding, applicable to all parts of the wedding.

Long Feng Coat: commonly used in Western-style wedding, new Chinese-style wedding to welcome the bride, go out, toast session. Ceremony session can be replaced with a wedding dress.

Cheongsam: It is suitable for Western-style wedding, new Chinese-style wedding toast or dinner.

Small Fengxian: It is not recommended to wear it on the wedding day.

Hanfu: Suitable for all parts of a pure Chinese wedding, choose the appropriate clothing according to the wedding style (theme).

Xiuhe clothing

Xiuhe clothing, in fact, is the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the period of women wore a coat and skirt, is a very common Chinese wedding dress in the wedding dress, because the 2001 TV series "orange red" of the popularity of the drama heroine Xiuhe (Zhou Xun played) wore such a wedding dress, so by some people called "Xiuhe clothing". "?

The blouse of the Xiuhe dress has a stand-up collar or a round neckline, or the right lapel covers the left lapel above the kind of jacket-skirt, and the cuffs of the blouse are wider. The "skirt" is a loose skirt, commonly known as the horse face skirt.

There are superior dresses, which are divided into two types, namely, the formal dress and the slanting dress. According to tradition, the main house usually wears the formal dress when it is married, while the concubine can only wear the slanting dress when it is married. However, because the placket looks better than the front placket, it seems that many couples have overlooked this difference so far.

The patterns on the show clothes are more diversified, not only can you show the dragon and phoenix, but also any flowers, plants and animals that symbolize good luck can be embroidered. For example, the peony symbolizes wealth and prosperity, the bat signifies "blessing", the lily blesses the new couple to be in harmony, etc. Diversified patterns are also the reason why the show clothes are becoming more and more popular among the brides-to-be.

Baby's dress, from Guo Pei's high-definition series, embroidered with phoenix peony, five bats symbolizing the five blessings of the family, took 7,981 hours

With the show dress to get married to Zhang Yuqi

Yuqi stringed Li Mao wedding

If you want to build the bridal modeling of the show dress?

Makeup mainly reflects the Jiangnan women's beautiful, dignified feeling, hair style mostly to the back of the head full bun with forehead bangs unique design, jewelry choose to use hairpins, tassels, gold jewelry, Agate, jade pendant, incense pouch and other Chinese style jewelry to dress up the bride, neck wear also mostly to a variety of auspicious locks, jade pendant-based.

Broad double cufflinks are characteristic, wearing the sleeves should not be too long, be sure to reveal the gold dragon and phoenix bracelet yo~

How should the groom match?

If the bride wears a show dress at the wedding, the groom can not wear a suit, you can wear a long shirt, horse coat. If you think it's too much, you can also wear a modified Zhongshan suit top, similar to the dark flowers and embroidery, and the bride's skirt and coat "natural pair".

Dragon and phoenix coats

It is said that when the daughter of the Chancellor of the Qing Dynasty Liang Reserve got married, the emperor gave a silk thread embroidered dragon and phoenix coats as dresses. The emperor's gift of dragon and phoenix coats represented a great honor and gift, and the wearing of dresses and coats for marriage became popular thereafter.

Miriam Yeung Ding Zigao wedding

Dragon and phoenix coats tailoring absorbed the characteristics of Western-style clothing, embroidery colors are mostly gold and silver, the pattern is also mostly used in the dragon flying phoenix, very bright and gorgeous, each piece is handmade stitch by stitch.

The main classification of dragon and phoenix coats is divided by the density of embroidery. In the same density, it is divided into 2 kinds, namely Bu Xin and Ping Xin, which are simply three-dimensional embroidery and flat embroidery.

Hu Xing'er's wedding, wearing a lab coat king

Lab Coat King (100% density embroidery)

Lab Coat King is the most expensive type of dragon and phoenix lab coat, the whole set of skirt and gown has been completely whitened or yellowed (silver thread and gold thread full coverage). The cycle is more than one year, and the price usually starts at 30,000 yuan. In addition to the bride, grandmothers and celebrants can also wear red or black coats to match the occasion and their status.

There are also Big Five Fortunes (over 70%) Medium Five Fortunes (50%-70%), Small Five Fortunes (30%-50%), and Five Fortunes Treasure (under 30%).