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China - Autonomous
China - Autonomous
China - Autonomous
• Tunics like long t-shirt :- Tunics like long and short-sleeved robes.
• with or without belt.
• Men wear shorter one that touches till their knees.
• Initially, there were no buttons, it was developed after a long time.
• wear an outer jacket to make them warm during the winter.
Garments:- MEN
Phoenix crown:-
• The cap or the hat had a long
history in Ancient China.
• It was a part of the custom code.
• The hat was mostly seen on men
when they reached 20.
• It is the sign that they had grown
up.
Footwear
• Hanfu :-
• Yi(Unisex) : Open cross-collar garment,
• Ru : Open cross-collar shirt
• Shan : Open cross-collar jacket that is worn over the yi
• Qun or chang: Skirt for women and ku for men.
Garments:- WOMEN
• Pien Fu:-
• Ceremonial dress that consists of two pieces.
• It is a tunic, extended to the knees on the top, and a skirt that reach the length of the ankles.
• Red represent summer,
• Green was for winter,
• black was for winter.
Garments:- WOMEN
• Shen-I :-
• Combination of pienfu and the
changpao;
• It consists of a tunic and a skirt or
trousers like the pienfu,
• Tunic and the skirt are sewed together
and essentially one piece like the
changpao.
Garments:- WOMEN
• Chang Pao :-
• One-piece garment that covers most of your
body from the height of the shoulders to the
ankles.
• It is the mixture of other several chinese
dresses. It was a loose fitting dress, especially
worn by a men.
• Protect their hand from cold in the winter.
• Men wrap the sleeves up while conducting
their daily business or hunting.
Headdress :- women
• Hair pins
• Combs
• Flowers
• Ribbons
Headdress :- women
Phoenix crown:-
• Part of the custom code.
• Women gave preferences to
hairpieces.
• The cap also signifies the social
hierarchical rule and social status.
• The poor weren’t allowed to
wear the hat.
Footwear
Lily feet :-
Flowerpot-sole shoes special kind of • Women's bound feet.
thick sole under their shoes. • The origin of lily feet is not very certain.
• The sole looked like flowerpots, so • According to legend, a king asked a lady-in-waiting
named ruiniang to bind her feet and dance on a
they were called flowerpot-sole shoes.
golden lotus flower, so it was called three-inch lily feet.
• According to legend, they made a • After that, the custom of foot-binding emerged. But
rhythmic sound that would drive bad this custom ceased after the founding of new china,
animals away. and shoes for lily feet entered the museums.
• There is another story about lily feet.
Footwear