The Craftsmanship of Han Clothing of Han Clothing

Xia Bu is a linen cloth woven from ramie, also commonly known as Xia Thing. As a traditional Han clothing fabric, Xia cloth has been used since the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties to make funeral dresses, court dresses, crowns, scarves and hats. The Han people first used ramie, hemp cloth and silk to make clothes, with the introduction and development of cotton planting technology and cotton spinning technology, the Han people until the Yuan and Ming time also began to widely wear and use cotton clothing materials.

The Zodiac brought advanced production processes, cotton threshing, flicking, spinning, weaving and other technologies greatly improved. The prosperity of the cotton spinning and weaving handicraft industry also strongly contributed to the development of cotton production. Yao Wenjian, "Shanghai Rural Records" recorded: "But since Huang Daobao into our euphony, and the textile method is refined, followed by various places to follow suit, and cotton is clothed in the world." In Wu Nai Jing, Huang Dao Po's hometown, the handmade cotton spinning skills she left behind are still being passed down, and have been listed as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage by China's Ministry of Culture.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, folk dress turned to luxury, and it was not uncommon to see commoners wearing damask and silk. Hangluo is a Han silk weaving technique, produced in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, so the name Hangluo. Hangluo by pure mulberry silk to plain and sarong organization joint composition, there are two kinds of horizontal Luo and straight Luo, with equidistant regular straight or horizontal bar-shaped yarn holes, eyelets are clear, comfortable and cool to wear. Silk is a specialty of China. Han Chinese working people invented and large-scale production of silk products, but also opened up the world's history for the first time in the East and West of large-scale trade exchanges, known as the Silk Road.

Woof, also known as "carved silk", is the essence of traditional Han silk art. As China's Han silk weaving industry in the most traditional kind of picking the warp and weft, with as if the effect of carving wisps of carving, rich double-sided three-dimensional, very appreciate the decorative silk fabrics, since the Song and Yuan Dynasty has been one of the royal fabrics, often used to weave the emperor and queen dress, the Royal real (like the Royal Rong) and copy the woof of the celebrity paintings and calligraphy. Nanjing brocade is an outstanding representative of the excellent traditional culture of the Han Chinese people in China, which is named because of its splendid and colorful color, as beautiful as the clouds in the sky. Song brocade is one of the traditional silk handicrafts of the Han Chinese. It started at the end of the Song Dynasty (about 11th century AD), and its place of production is mainly in Suzhou, so it is also called "Suzhou Song brocade". Song brocade color and lustre is gorgeous, the pattern is exquisite, the texture is firm and soft, was given China's "embroidery of the crown", which, together with Nanjing brocade, Sichuan Shu brocade, known as China's three famous brocades. Blue printed cloth, also known as indigo flower cloth, commonly known as medicine spot cloth, pouring flower cloth, etc., is a traditional Han craft dyeing and printing products, has a history of 1,300 years. Indigo dyes have been developed into blue dyeing techniques, and the dyed green and blue colors are the main colors of traditional Chinese clothing.

The "Qimin Yaojutsu - Kinds of Blue" written by Jia Si Fengyu of the Northern Wei Dynasty is the world's earliest record of the operation of indigo dyeing process. In the Tang Dynasty, the blue dyeing process was very popular among the people, and the medicine-spotted cloth developed on the basis of woodblock printing was basically similar to the blue printing and dyeing process.

Twisted val, also known as tie-dyeing, on the basis of sketches, after many bundling and dyeing of threads and strings, in the dyes dyed and the bundled folds of the fabric, so that the colors, like ceramic kiln changes, present a multi-layered, artistic and dynamic sense. The art of dyeing and valerian was once very popular on the ancient Silk Road. Han Chinese women like to wear their hair braided and plaited. Long hair is pulled on the head and fixed with one or several hairpins. The diversity of hair buns and hairpins brings colorful decorative effects that are pleasing to the eye. These long and short hairpins are made of gold, silver, jade, bone and wood, and are finely engraved and inlaid with various kinds of jewelry. From the royal relatives to peasant women, noble and lowly, but all have their own a hairpin, the value of the expensive shows the wealth and status of the holder.

Ancient Han women's hair are pulled into a bun, bun shape has a double bun, hanging bun, partial bun, flat bun, screw bun, high bun, flying bun and other categories. There are dozens of specific names, such as bush combed buns, double ringed buns, buns, buns, turning lotus buns, buns, flower buns and so on. Bun on the ornaments are combs, grates, hairpins, step rock, Cuiqiao, bead cui, gold and silver inlays, scratching the head, bead hoops, bead crowns, phoenix crowns, as well as gold, silver, beads and jade refined luanfeng, to Zhai, bead drops, beads, such as the card. Sideburns on both sides of the sideburns, there are also wearing a cap, cover the head.