Hanfu

Hanfu - painting of the 12th century, noblemen at the "Night Banquet of Han Xizai - 韓熙載夜宴圖"

Chinese clothing, "Shenyi - 裳衣"

The Chinese “ Han clothing ” or Hanfu ( Chinese 漢服 / 汉服 , Pinyin Hànfú , Jyutping Hon ⁴ fuk ⁶ - “Clothing of the Han ”, Min Nan Hanhok ), also Hànzhuāng ( 漢裝 / 汉装 ), or Huáfú ( 華服 / 华服 ) and sometimes simply referred to as " Chinese silk robe ".

term

The term Hanfu was not originally used by the Han Chinese, but by the national minorities to distinguish their clothing from the Chinese. It is made up of the character hàn 漢 / 汉 , Chinese for “Han Chinese” or “Han people” and fú 服 , Chinese for “clothing”.

history

Han and Manchu clothing (Qing Dynasty).

The Hanfu was the historical attire of the Han Chinese during much of Chinese history and was particularly worn in the centuries before the Manchus conquest and the establishment of the Qing Dynasty ( 1644 ). During the Qing Dynasty, the vast majority of Han men were free to continue dressing as they had during the Ming Dynasty.

A Han woman (Qing dynasty)
A Han child (Qing dynasty)
Taoist clothing (Qing dynasty)

Hanfu Gallery

Tsa-chü-ch'ui-shao-fu , Northern Wei Dynasty (5th century AD )
Portrait of Duke Yi von Wey (衞懿公) in the Hanfu of Ku K'ai-chih
Portrait of Confucius in Hanfu by Wu Daozi , Tang Dynasty (680 to 740)
Constellation and Lady, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907 to 960)
A noblewoman, early Sung dynasty (960 to 1279)
Musicians at the “Night Banquet of Han Xizai - 韓熙載夜宴圖”, painting from the 12th century.
Fresco of a Woman, Liao Dynasty (916 to 1125)
Young people in Hanfu, 2007
Young people in Hanfu, 2009
Woman in Hanfu (Ruqun - 襦裙, two-piece dress), 2012
Man in Hanfu (Daopao - 道袍, Daoist. Robe), 2009

Web links

Commons : Hanfu - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

The other trend (Asian mirror)
Hanfu revival movement

Individual evidence

^ Gernet, Jacques (1962). Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276. Translated by HM Wright. Stanford: Stanford University Press. p. 130. ISBN 0-8047-0720-0 .
↑ Kevin Carrico, A State of Warring Styles
↑ Twitchett, Denis; Fairbank, John K. (2008) Cambridge History of China Volume 9 Part 1 The Ch'ing Empire to 1800, p87-88: "History The term" hanfu "means" dress of the Han people. "... '(during Qing dynasty) Han resistance was so severe that the policies were modified. Men, government officials, Confucian scholars, and prostitutes wore the Manchu style; women, errand boys, children, monks, and Taoists were free to wear Han styles. '"
^ Edward JM Rhoads: Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928 . University of Washington Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-295-98040-9 , p. 60–: "" However, the dress code was required only of the scholar-official elite and not of the entire male population. Therefore, the great majority of Han men were free to continue to dress as they had during the Ming. ""

[1] Gernet, Jacques (1962). Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276. Translated by HM Wright. Stanford: Stanford University Press. p. 130. ISBN 0-8047-0720-0 .

[carrico-2] Kevin Carrico, A State of Warring Styles

[3] Twitchett, Denis; Fairbank, John K. (2008) Cambridge History of China Volume 9 Part 1 The Ch'ing Empire to 1800, p87-88: "History The term" hanfu "means" dress of the Han people. "... '(during Qing dynasty) Han resistance was so severe that the policies were modified. Men, government officials, Confucian scholars, and prostitutes wore the Manchu style; women, errand boys, children, monks, and Taoists were free to wear Han styles. '"

[4] Edward JM Rhoads: Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928 . University of Washington Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-295-98040-9 , p. 60–: "" However, the dress code was required only of the scholar-official elite and not of the entire male population. Therefore, the great majority of Han men were free to continue to dress as they had during the Ming. ""