Hanboks look especially nice, so why were they cut off? Was it cut off because of backwardness?

The Hanbok was discontinued because of the rule of the Qing Dynasty, coupled with the influence of modern Western thought.

Since 1644, when Wu Sangui let the Qing army in, the Manchu army was accompanied by a decree to "shave the hair and change the clothes": a decree aimed at destroying the dignity of the Han Chinese people, and achieving a more stable and long-lasting control. And the Han people since ancient times is a very important clothing of the famous people: body hair and skin, received by the parents, do not dare to destroy, the beginning of filial piety (Xiaojing).

Combined with the Han people's thousands of years of history of the great country, but also really look down on the barbarians outside of Guanwai, its aesthetic is not to care. Therefore, this paper order is like a bolt from the blue, so that the Han people in the panic after an instant full of anger: Han hair style crown is the Chinese national culture and tradition symbol, such as Hu clothing hanging braids, the culture is destroyed, China will no longer be China.

To this point, "to keep the head of the Han people as supple as a sheep, and now it is to keep its hair and rise as a tiger". In the early Qing Dynasty, the shaving of hair and the changing of clothes provoked opposition from all classes of Han Chinese, and even large-scale armed struggles spread almost throughout the country. It is important to note that in many places the struggle against the Qing did not begin when the Manchus took over the power of the central government, but on the day of the promulgation of the decree of shaving the hair and changing the clothes and the enforcement of the decree.

Historically, ethnic minorities have demanded that the Han Chinese change their clothes when they came to power, but no dynasty has ever enforced that directive so firmly and brutally. In the thirty-seven years of massacres from the Manchu Qing Dynasty to the pacification of the San Francisco, tens of millions of Han Chinese were sacrificed in the shaving of their hair and the changing of their clothes.

Not forgetting the dozens of massacres such as "Jiangyin 81", "Jiading three massacres" and "Yangzhou 10-day massacre", which were brutal in their methods. The Manchurian Qing Dynasty did achieve what it wanted through nationwide suppression - a heavy blow to the self-esteem of the Han Chinese nation and the stabilization of its rule.

The Han Chinese dress is still a little preserved, in the history of the bias of the provisions of the "ten from ten not from" description: male from female not from, life from death not from, yang from yin not from, the official from the subordinate not from, the old from the young not from, Confucianism and thus monks and Taoism not from, the prostitute and thus the actresses are not from; as well as: civil servants and thus the marriage is not from, the state and thus the official number is not from, the service and tax and thus the language and writing are not from. The first is that the people of the country are not to be taken in by the people of the world, but by the people of the world.

While not confirmed by historical data, but Yongzheng Qianlong like Chinese clothing is an indisputable fact. In many paintings at the time, the woman is still a continuation of the style of the Ming Dynasty. The Chinese dress is in such a gap in the misty survival.

Towards the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic of China, the Western thought invaded greatly, the country set off the tide of westernization, Hanfu as a product of feudal society, once again was hit hard. So far, has been crippled Hanfu disappeared in the long river of history. Although the Republic of China period in which there have been a few times a few literati called for the revival of Chinese dress, but the timing and soil does not allow, just born of the seedling was drowned by the western tide.

Expanded information:

Development of the Han Chinese dress:

After the unification of China by the Qin Dynasty. various systems were established, which also included the system of clothing. The ceremonial system of the Han Dynasty was developed by Shusun Tong, the Taishang of Han Gaozu, based on the ceremonial systems of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties.

Western Han men's and women's clothing still followed the form of deep clothes. Within the cicatrizes were the center and deep garments. Typical women's deep clothes in the Western Han Dynasty, there are two kinds of straight train and curved train, the cut has been different from the Warring States deep clothes. Western Han men's deep coat tunic neckline Zhan wide to the shoulder, right over the straight train, the front lapel down and the ground, in order to facilitate the activities of the back lapel from the knee down for trapezoidal gouge, so that the two sides of the lapel into a swallow-tailed shape.

Women's labor in the Han Dynasty like to wear a broken jacket, under the long skirt, slippers above the decorative belt hanging; Han Dynasty men's labor on the broken jacket, under the calf-nosed pants, and in the clothing outside the periphery of the cloth skirt, this attire of the scholar-peasant workers and industrialists can be worn.

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