As I mentioned before in my previous posts, comparing to the Japanese Kimono and Korean Hanbok, Chinese Hanfu has a much longer history. However, in the contemporary society, Hanfu is the one that has been ignored mostly. Except a small group of people who studied it, almost no one wears it in daily life, or important ceremonies, or even traditional holidays. As a matter of fact, more than 81% of Chinese citizens are not familiar with it.
Of course, this pathetic consequence came with a reason. Ever since 1644, China was transformed to Qing dynasty, which was ruled by the Manchu, another nationality in China. However, as I introduced before, Hanfu is the traditional clothing for the Han nationality. That is why the king of Qing dynasty ordered to stop people from wearing it in order to consolidate their power. This order lasted for about 300 years. During this period of time, Hanfu gradually disappeared from people’s life.
Here is a picture of the burning event:
What’s more, because Japanese Kimono and Korean Hanbok are both somehow derived from the traditional Chinese clothing, people who do not know them well nowadays always mix them up. In 2010, over 100 people in Chongqing province caught a girl in Hanfu, misunderstood it with Japanese Kimono, asked her to take it off, and set it on fire. It is the most pathetic thing ever in the Hanfu history. How could Han clothing develop healthily when the first impression of it from the Chinese people is “This is a traditional clothing from the other country ”?
Taking all the points of views into consideration, the development of traditional Chinese clothing is trapped in a hard time now. If Han Chinese people cannot wake up now and start to revive it, not only the clothes, but also the precious spirit and culture behind the clothing of the whole nation, might extinct soon.
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