Since 1644, Wu Sangui released the Qing army into the customs, which was accompanied by an edict of "shaving hair and changing clothes": aimed at destroying the dignity of the Han people and achieving the goal of more stability and long-term control. Since ancient times, the Han nationality has been a famous family that attaches importance to clothing: the body is leather, parents dare not hurt it, and filial piety begins (The Book of Filial Piety).
Coupled with the history of the Han people for thousands of years, they really look down on the barbarians outside the customs and even disdain their aesthetics. Therefore, this paper order is like a bolt from the blue, which makes the Han people angry instantly after being frightened: the hair styles and costumes of the Han people are traditional symbols of Chinese culture. If Khufu hangs his pigtails, the culture will be destroyed and China will no longer be China.
At this point, "Han people, who have always been as soft as sheep, are now rising like tigers because of their hair." The order of changing clothes and shaving hair in the early Qing Dynasty aroused the opposition of people from all walks of life in Han nationality, and even large-scale armed struggle spread almost all over the country. What needs to be clear is that the anti-Qing struggle in many places did not begin when the Qing Dynasty took over the central government, but the day when the order of shaving and changing clothes was promulgated and enforced forcefully.
In history, ethnic minorities always asked Han people to change clothes after taking power, but no dynasty has ever carried out this instruction so resolutely and cruelly. From the Qing Dynasty's entry into Shanhaiguan to the pacification of San Francisco, the massacre lasted for 37 years, and tens of millions of Han people died because of shaving their heads and changing clothes.
We can't forget the cruelty of dozens of slaughterhouses such as "Jiangyin August 1st", "Jiading Three Slaughters" and "Yangzhou Ten Slaughters". Through the nationwide suppression, the Manchu did achieve the expected goal-dealt a heavy blow to the self-esteem of the Han nationality and stabilized the rule.
Hanfu kept a little. There is a description of "ten obedience and ten disobedience" in Pian Shi: men don't obey women, life never dies, yang never obeys yin, officials don't obey officials, old people don't follow young people, Confucianism doesn't follow Buddhism, and prostitutes don't follow women; And: being an official and therefore not obeying marriage, the country name is therefore an official name, and the service tax is therefore a language.
Although it has not been confirmed by historical data, it is an indisputable fact that Yongzheng Qianlong likes Hanfu. In many paintings at that time, women continued the style of the Ming Dynasty. Hanfu is living in such a crack.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, western thoughts invaded on a large scale, and the whole country set off a wave of westernization. Hanfu, as a product of feudal society, was hit hard again. At this point, the incomplete Hanfu disappeared in the long river of history. Although a few scholars called for the revival of Hanfu several times during the Republic of China, the opportunity and soil did not allow it, and the nascent signs were submerged by the tide of western learning.
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Development of Hanfu:
After Qin unified China, various systems were established, including the system of dressing. The etiquette system of Han Dynasty was formulated by the great-uncle and grandson of Emperor Gaozu according to the etiquette system of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties.
Men's and women's clothing in the Western Han Dynasty still followed the form of deep clothes. Cicadas can be divided into medium clothes and deep clothes. There are two kinds of typical women's deep clothes in the Western Han Dynasty: straight and curved, and the tailoring is different from that in the Warring States period. The thick collar of men in the Western Han Dynasty is shoulder-wide, with the right hem straight and the front hem hanging to the ground. In order to facilitate movement, the back hem is cut into a trapezoid from below the knee, so that both sides are dovetail-shaped.
Women in the Han Dynasty like to wear long skirts at work. When men worked in the Han dynasty, they wore worn trousers and calf nose trousers, and a cloth skirt was worn around the clothes, which could be worn by businessmen and businesses.
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