Traditional Han custume(汉服)

All over China, there are officially 56 races have been identified. According statistical data which is published by the government, a race which is called Han consists 93% of the population of China. The old-line Han race is originated from the HuaXia Group approximate at 4,000 years ago and was named as Han since the Han Dynasty(202B.C-220A.D) till today.During the history,the Han people created one of the greatest culture in the World,which has influenced the entire culture evolution of East Asia. Elements of Han culture seriously influenced the evolution of Japanese and Korean culture.

The traditional dress of Han people which was called Han costume are formed approximate 5,000 year ago. Han Costume is easily identified with the unique characteristics.
First, the collarband consists of two pieces of cloth which are y-shaped set in the front view of Han costume. The left piece must cover on the right one.
Second, instead of buttons, sorts of belts are utilised to tie up the entire costumes.
Third, wide sleeves.
Han Costume is the most representative costume of Chinese traditional costume in history because the Han people's culture is the most representative culture of Chinese culture in history.

Sadly, the evolution of the Han Costume in China was totally interrupted via Manchurian's conquest of the entire China in 1644A.D. As a minority race, Manchurian established Qing Dynasty(1644A.D-1911A.D) and published an inhumanly order "All the Han people must revise their costume style and hair style into Manchurian style, anynoe who dare to disobey the order must be executed."
Due to the disobedience of the inhumanly order, cruel wars were occured and the Han people was defeated at last.
As a result:
1: Han people were forced to wear Manchurian costume:
2:Male Han people were forced to make their hair style like pigtail;
3:Female Han people were forced to wear cheongsam.
The inhumanly order persisted 267 years then the order ceased at 1911 due to the destruction of Qing Dynasty. The sadly history obviously illustrates the pigtail hair style and the cheongsam cannot represent the Chinese 5,000 years culture.

Today, the oblivion of the Han Costume has ceased. The magnificent glory of our ancestor will never be forgotten when the Han costume is retrieved, when the history is retrieved.