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A dudou (Chinese: 肚兜, 兜肚, or 兜兜; also known by other names) is a traditional Chinese article of clothing that covers the front of the torso, originally worn as an undershirt with medicinal properties. With the opening of China, it is sometimes encountered in Western and modern Chinese fashion as a sleeveless shirt and backless ...
China proper is shaded in pink, while other Chinese territories have pink borders. China proper, also called Inner China [note 1] are terms used primarily in the West in reference to the traditional "core" regions of China centered in the southeast. The term was first used by Westerners during the Manchu -led Qing dynasty to describe the ...
The "Third Chinese Empire" (中華第三帝國) consisted of the Liao dynasty, the Jin dynasty, the Yuan dynasty, the Ming dynasty, and the Qing dynasty. Accordingly, the terms "Chinese Empire" and "Empire of China" need not necessarily refer to imperial dynasties that had unified China proper.
a section of The Night Revels of Han Xizai, painted in the 10th century. A group of musicians in Qixiong; Five dynasties. Hanfu ( simplified Chinese : 汉服; traditional Chinese : 漢服; pinyin : Hànfú, lit. " Han clothing"), are the traditional styles of clothing worn by the Han Chinese since the 2nd millenium BCE.
Modeled after the Zhongjin guan, but worn by the scholar-gentry. Named after the "cloud" shapes formed on the sides. Adult. Ming. Zaoli jin (皁隸巾) Named after and worn by yamen runners. Due to the low status and the headwear not able to cover the forehead, it is also nicknamed "faceless guan " (無顏之冠) [44] Adult.
Hanfu Movement ( simplified Chinese: 汉服运动; traditional Chinese: 漢服運動; pinyin: Hànfú yùndòng ), also known as the Hanfu Revival Movement ( 汉服复兴运动; 漢服復興運動; Hànfú fùxīng yùndòng ), [1] is a cultural movement seeking to revitalize Han Chinese fashion. That movement developed in China since 2003. [1 ...
Daojiao fushi. Daojiao fushi ( simplified Chinese: 道教服饰; traditional Chinese: 道教服飾; pinyin: Dàojiàofúshì ), also known as Taoist clothing, are religious clothing and adornment worn by devotees and practitioners of Taoism, an indigenous religion and life philosophy in China. [1] [2] Chinese culture attaches great importance ...
A painting of a gentry scholar with two courtesans, by Tang Yin, c. 1500. The four occupations (simplified Chinese: 士农工商; traditional Chinese: 士農工商; pinyin: Shì nóng gōng shāng), or "four categories of the people" (Chinese: 四民; pinyin: sì mín), was an occupation classification used in ancient China by either Confucian or Legalist scholars as far back as the late Zhou ...