What changes have taken place in modern customs?

1. In China before the Opium War, most of the material and cultural life and social customs followed the tradition. From the emperors of the dynasties to the dignitaries, they all wore robes and jackets, ate Manchu food and lived in deep houses. Ordinary people eat coarse clothes and live in ordinary houses. At that time, food and clothing were produced in China.

2. After the Opium War, western culture gradually penetrated into people's lives, and "foreign cloth" and "foreign clothes" gradually entered the lives of urban people in China.

3. After the Revolution of 1911, Sun Yat-sen's tunic suit, which combines Chinese and western styles, was welcomed by the new school. In the 1920s and 1930s, China had all kinds of clothes, including suits, coarse shirts and cheongsam. Students' clothing has become a symbol of young people's cultural education, and skirts imitating European styles are also popular in big cities. Diets in all parts of China have local characteristics. For example, southerners like rice and seafood, while northerners like pasta and meat. After the Opium War, western restaurants, bakeries and coffee shops began to appear in trading ports and some big cities, and eating western food became a fashion for the rich. With the opening of more and more trading ports in China, more and more western architectural styles have appeared in China, and some officials or businessmen have also built European-style houses or mansions combining Chinese and Western styles. Social customs in modern China were also influenced by western democratic thoughts. During the Reform Movement of 1898, the reformists advocated "breaking clothes" and "abolishing foot binding" to reform the traditional marriage system. Before and after the Revolution of 1911, Breaking and Changing Clothes had the color of anti-Qing revolution.

4. During the Republic of China, the government issued decrees such as cutting braids, changing clothes and abolishing foot binding. In big cities, weddings and funerals have changed from trivial and ignorant to simple and civilized. Contrary to big cities, the vast rural areas in modern China were still in a backward and closed state. Traditional customs and habits have been firmly inherited in rural areas.