The full name of Hanfu is the traditional costume of the Han nationality. It is called Hanfu, but it doesn't just refer to the costumes of the Han Dynasty. Many people think that the Han nationality had a unique clothing system during the Yellow Emperor period, and historical records even think that Hanfu was made by the emperor. Only before the archaeological support, Hanfu first appeared in the Yin and Shang Dynasties. About 5000 years ago, China was still in the Yangshao culture of Neolithic Age. At this time, there was primitive agriculture and textile industry. According to legend, Lei Zu, the wife of the Yellow Emperor, invented sericulture, and people have had costumes since then.
Before the Zhou Dynasty, costumes were constantly improving. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the styles of costumes became more diverse. After the unification of Qin dynasty, a perfect clothing system was established, but in Han dynasty, it was formulated according to the standards of Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties. After thousands of years of development, the costumes of the Tang Dynasty should be the most wonderful chapter. Gorgeous clothes and more complicated makeup. Even today, many countries in East Asia regard Tang Dynasty costumes as their formal attire, which shows its far-reaching influence. Of course, the Tang costume here is not in the modern sense, but formed after the Qing Dynasty.
Hanfu was out of date until the Qing Dynasty, because the rulers of the Qing Dynasty wanted to weaken the national identity of the Han people. So he ordered all Han people to change clothes, shave their heads and shave their hair. In the next 200 years, the clothes of the Han nationality were all improved by Manchu costumes, not traditional by the Han nationality. In fact, there was a Hanfu movement after the demise of the Qing Dynasty, but it was more in modern times. The vast number of Chinese culture lovers began to carry out a folk movement of cultural rejuvenation with China's fine clothes and China's etiquette.
Moreover, countries have set national clothes, such as Japanese kimono. Japanese kimono is actually the continuous improvement of Hanfu. China's national costume has not been decided, because there are still many problems to be solved. Even as a school uniform, there are three problems to be solved.
First of all, there are 56 ethnic groups in China, and each ethnic group also has its own costumes. Their costumes have also undergone many years of changes, and they also belong to a kind of traditional costumes in China. In this way, there may be dozens of kinds of clothes, so we can't just use Chinese clothes because there are many Han people. How to balance the choices among ethnic groups is a problem.
The second is the diversity of Hanfu. There are many kinds, patterns, fabrics and styles of Hanfu, and everything else is easy to say, but the style is more troublesome. Careful analysis, according to the overall structure, can be divided into three types, one is the deep clothing system in which the lower part of the coat is connected with the upper part. The second is made of deep clothes, and the third is made of "skirts". In addition to these three kinds, there are many details, for example, there are chest-length skirts, high-waisted skirts and double-breasted skirts. The variety is much more complicated, and what style to choose is also a problem.
The last one is the complexity of Hanfu, which naturally has its advantages as a traditional culture. Moreover, Hanfu looks like a fairy, but it looks good. Traditionally, it is a long trouble. Modern society is always different from ancient times, and whether it will cause some troubles or accidents also needs to be considered.
These three questions are very troublesome. Regarding national costumes, Ye Hongming once suggested that we can choose elements from a variety of national costumes, or from the Hanfu system, and we can also learn from the advantages of national costumes and western-style costumes.