Category: Chinese Clothing
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The History of Chinese Clothing — The Times of Medieval Empires
These pictures are stills from the TV drama “the Times of Zhenguan” (贞观之治). “Zhenguan” (贞观) was the year-title (年号) of the reign of Tang Tai-Zong (唐太宗) who was the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty and an excellent statesman. This TV drama is about the history of the reign of Tang Tai-Zong. In the Sui…
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The History of Chinese Clothing — The Times of Classical Empires
The picture is a still from the movie “The Emperor and the Assassin” (荆轲刺秦王), and the man in this picture is Qin First-Emperor, who was the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty. The Qin State was created feudally in 770 BC, because Qin Xiang-Gong (秦襄公), the chief of Qin tribe, escorted Zhou Ping-Wang (周平王) to…
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The History of Chinese Clothing — The Age of Feudal States
These pictures are the stills of the TV drama “States of the Eastern Zhou” (东周列国). In the first still, the men are the two preeminent statesmen of ancient China, Qi Huan-Gong (齐桓公) and Guan Zhong (管仲). They were golden partners, and we can know about some details from a great book “Guanzi” (管子). The man…
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The History of Chinese Clothing — The Preface
The Chinese style of Clothing has a long history going back several thousand years. According to legend, Leizu (嫘祖), the wife of Huang-Di (黄帝), 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. This style of clothing became the national…