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There are many countries in the world, why the countries are not the same dress

The main factors are as follows:

1, the different historical and cultural heritage: for example, our country in ancient times to the crown of the long-sleeved, commendable clothing for the symbols of Chinese civilization. Confucius looked down on the barbarians "cloak of obeisance"; Western Jin dynasty fell, "five hu" ruled the Central Plains, Han Chinese scholarly officials were forced to move south, they said they were "clothes south" (as if the "five hu"). "five hu" are not wearing clothes and hats like!) This tradition of clothing was not recognized until the Qing Dynasty. This clothing tradition until the Qing Dynasty was replaced by robes and coats. In the Republic of China, we began to be influenced by European and American clothing. But now, our children and grandchildren have long forgotten their ancestors. Zhang Yimou's program to introduce China for the Olympic bid even used the braided clothes of the Qing Dynasty as the Chinese costume. A few years ago, the APEC meeting was held in Shanghai, we launched the so-called "Tang" clothing is also far from the real Tang Dynasty clothing.

2, geography, climate is different: cold areas of the nation wearing must felt boots. Tropical area residents all year round only a piece of cloth wrapped around half the body even if it is a grand dress, such as India's "sari"; poorer or more primitive ethnic groups and even men and women are only a foot of cloth (or even leaves) to cover their private parts, such as the indigenous people living in the rainforest. Hot and dry in the Middle East, such as the Arabs, in order to prevent heat radiation, hot days with long white cloth to their heads and the whole body wrapped tightly. In some of our summer love bare shoulders "bladder" seems a little incomprehensible - that is not the people to the heat death suffocation? In fact, the climate in that region is not only hot, but also very dry. It's not that they don't sweat, but they don't sweat yet, and it evaporates in their pores. So people will not be smothered to death, but only to "baked to death", the only way to deal with the whole person wrapped up. And they not only do not open the windows in summer, but to close the windows and doors tightly to prevent the heat wave invasion. Tibetan compatriots living in the alpine region, and to ride a horse grazing whip, so the thick Tibetan robe to let the right arm exposed or the right arm only with the sleeve.

3, social customs, concepts are different: the Chinese red symbol of joy, white symbol of mourning; Europe and the United States to white clothing as a wedding dress, wrapped in a black veil, wearing black clothes to express mourning; and it is said that some peoples in Africa, but the red clothes as a funeral dress.

4, the influence of the outside world and the change of the times: in modern times, with the expansion of the Western capitalist countries, their culture, including clothing, has become a strong culture, and the suit is now a worldwide formal dress is proof. Reforms, dynasties, not to mention revolutions have had a more direct and greater impact on clothing, as it utilizes political coercion. During the Warring States period, King Wuling of Zhao changed the "Chinese" (here "Chinese" refers to the "Huaxia" in the Central Plains) by "riding and shooting". The "Chinese" (here "Chinese" refers to the "Huaxia" people of the Central Plains) changed the custom of "Chinese people" (here "Chinese people" refers to the "Huaxia" people of the Central Plains) of wearing clothes and not wearing pants, and they not only learned to ride a horse, but also put on a narrow shirt, narrow-sleeved upper garment and pants when they rode a horse in battle, and also developed the habit of wearing pants in their daily life when they didn't fight. (Imagine if it hadn't been for this reform of King Wuling of Zhao, we would still be wearing a wide shirt and wandering around with a naked bottom! The Qing army entered the country, and not only did they wear pants, but they also wore pants. After the Qing army entered the country, not only "stay head but not hair, stay hair but not head", and thousands of years of Han clothing, "Han official authority" also once swept away to the end. And the accumulation of wrong into right, so that to the Republic of China when many people were cut off the braid (such as when the Vice President of the Republic of China, the President of Mr. Li Yuanhong) had also been like mourning the death of their parents like weeping bitterly, Zhang Xun and other remnants of some of the Qing Dynasty, but also to get up to "swear to protect" them that "pig's tail! "It! After the liberation, foreigners called "Mao-style clothing" or "people's clothing" once ruled the world. After the reform and opening up of the Chinese people's ideology has been greatly liberated, the suit is no longer regarded as a symbol of the "bourgeoisie", so much so that the peasants also wear "suits" when they work in the fields. Nowadays, of course, we Chinese are no longer like that, and our clothes have not only become completely "globalized", but also personalized. At the same time, Chinese clothing is even "leading" the world in some respects! --Don't believe you see: China's popular form of clothing is invincible, best-selling the world's five continents, becoming the world's largest clothing supplier it!