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Traditional dress is one of the cultural symbols that reflect the culture of the past times and people's influence on the regional environment. The traditional Han Chinese dress has two basic forms, namely, the upper garment and lower garment system and the garment-connected system. Each of them has its own characteristics, fully revealing people's aspirations for life and beauty in different dynasties and environments.

Different ethnic groups in China have different costumes in each era. From the Han Chinese dress, China's Han Chinese dress has the dress of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the dress of the Qin Dynasty, the dress of the Han Dynasty, the dress of the Wei, Jin, North and South Dynasties, the dress of the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, the traditional dress of the Song Dynasty, the traditional dress of the Ming Dynasty, and other differences. Each of them has its own characteristics, fully revealing the different dynasties, different environments, people's pursuit of life, the pursuit of beauty and all kinds of aspirations.

There are two basic forms of traditional costumes, namely, the upper garment and the lower garment system and the garment-connected system. Clothing system, rumored to have begun in the legendary era of the Yellow Emperor, "Yi - Department of Rhetoric," which reads: "The Yellow Emperor, Yao, Shun hanging clothes and the rule of the world, cover from the Qiankun." This legend can be unearthed in Gansu in the pottery culture of colored pottery culture, be confirmed. Clothes under the clothing system, according to "interpretation of the name - interpretation of the clothes": "Where the clothing is said on the clothes. Clothes, according to also, people rely on to avoid cold and heat also. Under the said clothes. Clothing, barrier, so since the barrier also." The shape of the upper garment is mostly cross-necked right overlooking, the lower garment similar to the shape of the apron, the waist tie, the lower tie open. This kind of clothing system had a great influence on the later generations.

The system of clothing attached to a garment, anciently known as Shamyi, was first created in the Zhou Dynasty. According to a note in the Book of Rites - Deep Clothing, "The name is Deep Clothing, which means that the clothes are attached to the garment and purely used for picking." Shamyi is similar in structure to contemporary dresses, with the top and bottom of the garment sewn together at the waist, and the collar, sleeves, and train made of other fabrics or embroidered edges. The deep clothes of this form, affecting the later generations of clothing, the Han Dynasty women to it as a dress, ancient robes are also used in this form of clothing belonging to the form, and even today's dress is also the evolution of the deep clothes system.

Han men's clothing

Crown, to the emperor's crown is the most magnificent. The system of pre-Qin coronation is divided into the upper garment and the lower garment. Clothes more black (Xuan Clothes), like the sky; clothes more yellow (yellow clothes), like the ground. There are also light reddish-red color. XuanYi wide sleeve, above with Zhu (red), white, pale (green), yellow, Xuan (black) five color silk painting (embroidery or weaving) out of the sun, moon, stars, mountains, dragons, flowers and insects and other pictures. Shirt paintings were also embroidered with five-colored silk to depict Zong Yi (ceremonial vessels), Zao (water plants), fire and other motifs. The patterns of these drawings and motifs are collectively known as the 12 Chapter Patterns. The front of the garment has a leather opening, vermilion in color. On it are painted three chapters of dragon, fire and mountain, which are tied to a leather belt around the waist and sheltered in front of the knees on the face of the garment. Jade is worn on the side of the garment. At the back of the garment is a group of ribbons (a patterned pendant made of wide ribbons). The waist is also tied with a large belt.

Hair was tied at the top of the head, and a crown (hat) was placed on it, which was rolled up with a button in which a jade mat was inserted to fasten the crown to the hair. Crown on the coronet (a width of 0.8 feet, 1.6 long, rounded in front of the rear of the flat plate, also known as the coronet extension, the board for the wooden, to Xuan cloth on the surface, ochre cloth surface), the coronet extension before and after the uniformly pendant 12 tassels (with colored silk as a rope, string of colorful jade beads, known as the tassel), each tassel 12 jade, before and after the *** 24 tassels, *** with jade beads 228, known as the yuzao. Jade hanging next to the crown, the name "full ear". Foot wearing red slippers (thick-soled shoes, made of wood on the bottom of the shoes, slippers on the front of the head, wide, wide and high, the foot can put the floor of the long skirt before the train edge of the pick up, in order to step forward).

Later generations of gun coronet are in accordance with the pre-Qin system, with slight variations. Other vassals, the public, the Secretary, the coronet, the number of tassels in strict accordance with the provisions of the hierarchy in order to reduce to 9 tassels, 7 tassels, 5 tassels, 3 tassels have a difference in the number of tassels with the number of jade in order to reduce to 9 jade, 7 jade, 5 jade, 3 jade, etc., the clothes on the chapter pattern is also strictly in accordance with the hierarchical reduction, there are 9 chapters, 7 chapters, 5 chapters, 3 chapters of the difference. The name of the type of coronation, there are dozens of coronation, mountain coronation and so on.

Clothing and clothing connected to the deep robe clothing is the most versatile: can be used for civil and military officials of the secondary court dress, can also be used for the vassals and scholars Yanju evening dress, can also be used for the emperor does not see the court when the plainclothes. The deep coat is the only dress for the common people to wear when they participate in the sacrificial rites, and it can also be worn in marriage, funeral, and bingo ceremonies, and it can be worn by both men and women.

The commoners wore 襦裤, 襦, a short coat, on a daily basis. A short coat and long pants were the regular dress, without a skirt tied over it. The poor wore pleats, which were long coarsely woven jackets, mostly in green and black colors. Mourning clothes white.

Men's head for the bundle of hair, crown and bun. The shape of the crown has a high crown, the ben, sorghum crown, cage crown, small crown, turban, conical cap, hat and so on. The name of its fine other kinds of crowns and hats, such as the Commission appearance crown, Tongtian crown, far travel crown, into the sage crown, big hat, round hat, goose hat, Tang scarf, mat hat, etc., up to dozens of kinds. There are also wearing various types of head scarf such as four-way head scarf, ten thousand word scarf, cloud scarf, soft scarf, banner scarf, kudzu scarf, huayang scarf, etc., there are still areas of farmers wearing hats and hats.

Han women's clothing

Women's clothing, queens and noblewomen's gowns are mostly deep clothes, such as the "Records of Rites" on the list of the pre-Qin banter, Que Zhai, bow clothes, show clothes, Su Sa are deep clothes. The gowns for the rituals were painted (embroidered or woven) with five-color Zhai (brocade chicken)-shaped drawings. Jiuyi is yellow in color, and it is a suit for suing for mulberry (praying for the king's blessing for the success of mulberry cultivation and sericulture); Zhanyi is white, and it is a guest dress; and Suyi is a liner worn on the inside. Changsha Mawangdui unearthed silk paintings in the noblewoman clothes belong to the deep clothes type, Changsha Yangtianhu Chu Tomb unearthed Chu wooden figurines of women also serve deep clothes.

After the Han Dynasty, the dresses of queens and noblewomen were inherited from the pre-Qin system. But also developed a half-arm (half-sleeved tunic), Phi Pali (shoulder and back draped in a long painting silk), Xiapi (two from the shoulders of the broad width of the cape with birds and birds embroidered color silk, about 3 inches wide, the front hangs more than 3 feet, around the end of the lower end of the joint with a jade pendant, the back hangs more than 2 feet, the end of the inserted pockets), pasted together (four slits of the tunic), cape, girdle, waist, waist holders (long girdle), hanging sleeves and other costumes or clothing accessories. General women's daily clothing is mostly for the top and bottom of the dress separate skirt, but also outside the top and bottom of the pants do not tie the skirt. These clothes are a kind of traditional clothing of the Han nationality.

Ancient women's hair was pulled into a bun, and there were double buns, hanging buns, partial buns, flat buns, spiral buns, high buns, flying buns and other types of buns. There are dozens of specific names, such as bush combed buns, double ringed buns, buns, buns, turning lotus buns, treasure 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 drapery hat, cover the head.

Traditional shoes and footwear of the Han people

Men and women have shoes underneath their feet, and their styles include shoes with the head cocked into a wutu head (rectangular plate shape), a phoenix head, and general cocked-tip shoes, as well as flat and rounded heads. Crawlers can be subdivided into slippers, sandals and shoes. Boots are a style introduced from ethnic minority areas. In the south, there are wooden clogs, which are easy and cool, and can be worn by both men and women regardless of their rank. In rainy days, they wore spiked shoes, sewn with cowhide, with iron teeth on the soles. Southern fishermen go barefoot on their boats. Rice farmers have paddy field farming, also barefoot, on the can wear straw shoes.