Chinese Traditional Concept Of Clothing And Etiquette

However, the people who once advocated the big sleeves of the wide robe quickly recognized that the western style clothing is simple, flexible and convenient.

But by the middle of 90s, things were quite different.

At this time, with the increasing popularity of Western democratic ideas and the deepening recognition of the Western way of life in China, the voice of easy to serve in China is getting higher and higher.

(in the reform movement of 1898, Kang Youwei advocated "the same customs with Europe and America", and Kang Youwei also advocated changing into western style clothes. He added the western style clothes to the ancient Chinese system: "the western style clothes were not serious, the clothes were serious, the leaders were white, the clothes were long, the society was one of the two systems of the emperor.

The bourgeois revolutionaries see the change in western suit as a panacea for "shaking up skills, good diplomacy, strong soldiers and strong seeds".

This reflects the "blindness" of Westernization, but it also shows that people have already recognized Western clothing at that time.

In the early twentieth Century, western style clothes began to flow.

Before and after the Opium War, the "Yi boats" were popular in the provinces of the south of the Yangtze River. The imported female costumes were mainly dominated by lace and silk thread.

In 1859, the Englishmen who had just arrived in Hongkong saw "many Chinese girls on their feet, wearing European style shoes and a bright Manchester style scarf, folded as a handkerchief, folded diagonally, and made a knot in both sides."

So he was surprised to think that their Europeanization was quite noticeable.

There is more historical evidence: "the women in the sea are pleased with the dress, the clothes will be bare, the trousers will not grow up, the stockings will be long, and the shoes will be high.

In the Europeanization of Shanghai, people feel that they are fashionable and fashionable, but they are not surprised to be evil spirits.

The most fashionable women are mainly prostitutes. Their courage to be bold and unconventional makes them the forerunner of the trend of modern Chinese women fashion.

In 80s and 90s of nineteenth Century, Shanghai began to display fashionable women's fashionable clothes showing beauty of human body. In Beijing, there were also young female students who had "bare chest and exposed arms, short sleeves, green clothes, high clouds and temples, and leather shoes". At that time, they were not only folk, but also even the heavily guarded palace.

According to records, Guangxu twenty-nine years (1903), the Qing government minister Yu Yu Geng in France when he returned from office, and the western style costumes of his wife and two daughters to the Summer Palace to accept the Empress Dowager Ci Xi's summons, his two daughters have become Ci Xi's former female officials. Whenever they encounter foreign affairs activities, they always dress in suits and stay around Ci Xi.

It can be seen that people's acceptance of western style clothing has been greatly improved so that even the die hard Ci Xi can accept it.