Oriental Clothing Trivia
The Chinese style of clothing has a long history going back
several thousands of years, and according to legend, Leizu, the
wife of Huang-Di started raising silkworms in captivity and
invented a way to produce silk cloth. Huang-Di designed
a beautiful type of clothing with the silk cloth and this style
of clothing became the national garments of Huaxia,
and the garments became known as Chinese Clothing.
In the Zhou Dynasty, which existed from the 11th century B.C. to
the 3rd century B.C., Chinese Clothing took on different
appearances according to different social status. Qi-State was
an affluent country and the people loved beautiful clothing,
so Qi became known as “ the land of beautiful clothing ”.(Qi-Pao
derivation)
In the Tang Dynasty, the Chinese style of clothing became very
popular because of the great power and influence of the Tang
Empire. Ancient Chinese clothing had a direct effect on the
clothing of other Oriental cultures, and the Korean style
of clothing was modelled from the court-style of the Tang
Dynasty.
Also the Japanese Kimono was modelled after the normal
national clothing of the Han Nation. Wang Wei, a famous poet of
the Tang Dynasty, said the origin of Japanese-style clothing was the clothing style of the Han Dynasty,
a great dynasty of ancient China.
Huaxia Clothing (also called Han Clothing) was accepted as the
Chinese style of clothing for several thousands of years. These
kinds of garments were representative of ancient Oriental
Civilizations spanning millenniums.
However in the 17th century, the Ming Dynasty (the last empire
of the Han Nation), was destroyed and with that destruction,
came the demise of the Huaxia culture which included all forms
of Chinese style clothing. |
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