The origin of Chinese Han clothing

The term "Han clothing" was first recorded in the "Book of Han": "After a number of dynasty congratulations, music Han clothing system". Here the "Han" mainly refers to the Han Dynasty, refers to the Han Dynasty clothing etiquette system. The formation of the so-called "Han race" is directly related to the Han Dynasty. Just as the traditional dress of the Hu people was called "Hu Clothing", the traditional dress of the Han people also had a corresponding name "Han Clothing". Therefore, the basic connotation of this term was later fixed, i.e., Han traditional dress. It was initially the name given by other ethnic groups to the traditional dress of the Han people, and then became a cultural symbol of Han people's self-identification. In the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, some foreign rulers explicitly used the term "hanfu" to refer to Han clothing, such as "since the Liao Kingdom entered the Jin Dynasty, the emperor and the southern class of Han officials used hanfu; the Empress Dowager and the northern class of Qidan bureaucrats used the national dress, and the hanfu was the legacy of the Five Dynasties Jin". The Yuan Dynasty revision of the "Liao Shi", and even specifically for the Chinese dress to open up a "Han" article.

The Han Chinese dress is one of the world's oldest national costumes.

In the absence of archaeological physical support before the age, the earliest appearance of Hanfu should be the Yin Shang period.

About five thousand years ago, China in the Neolithic period of the Yangshao culture, produced a primitive agriculture and textile industry, began to weave linen to make clothes, and then invented the sericulture and silk spinning, the people's clothes and costumes are becoming more and more complete. After Yin and Shang, the crown and costume system was initially established, and during the Western Zhou Dynasty, the costume system was gradually formed. In the late Zhou Dynasty, due to the political, economic, ideological and cultural changes have taken place dramatically, especially the hundred schools of thought on the perfection of the dress has a certain impact, the vassal states between the crown dress and customs are beginning to have obvious differences. And the creation of deep clothes. Crown system was included in the scope of the "rule of etiquette", became a manifestation of etiquette, and from then on, China's clothing and clothing system is more detailed.

In 1644, after the Qing army entered the customs, with the Manchu as the core to establish a semi-colonial, semi-slavery country. In order to combat and enslave the majority of Han Chinese people, especially the upper class (scholars) of the national spirit, in order to maintain the dominant position of the Manchu. Manchu rulers ordered the nation to shave their hair and change their clothes, causing national anger, dissatisfaction and armed resistance, followed by the bloody suppression and massacre # under the force of the Manchu rulers, the gradual demise of the Han Chinese dress.