Han Clothing Routinization

As the previous post mentioned, Han clothing development is in a depression now. However, luckily, an increasing number of Chinese started joining the Han clothing renewal movement now. The primary goal they have in mind is to let more people know about it by seeing it often in their real life, and they named it as “Han clothing routinization”.

Here are some pictures of Han clothing routinization:

Source: Haipeng Wang

The original idea of Han clothing routinization is to let more people going out while dressing the Han clothing. However, because most of the modern Chinese people cannot accept Han clothing right now, people need to take risks for hanging out with the Han clothing on. Then they came up with a better idea to support the routinization movement: wearing part of the Han clothing and part of the modern clothes rather than putting on the whole set of Han clothing. It can make them look less weird.

This idea works effectively, more and more volunteers joined this movement. Although the “Han clothing routinization” only continued for a few years, it already helps pushing the Han clothing renewal movement into a brand new stage. Over 500,000 people joined this movement, an increasing number of Chinese start to know about their own traditional clothing and stop mixing it up with Japanese Kimono or Korean Hanbok; fewer people continue judge the ones who wear Han clothing in public, etc.

Now, this routinization becomes a worldwide thing. A lot of overseas Chinese are contributing to it as well. I did that sometimes as well. We believed that as long as we keep trying, people who are stubborn will change their mind to accept Han clothing to their daily life or even important ceremonies eventually, and the culture behind it will be remembered as well.