Sepanjang sejarahnya yang panjang, China telah menghasilkan rangkaian pakaian dan aksesori yang sangat pelbagai dan indah, menduduki tempat istimewa dalam jajaran budaya fesyen seluruh dunia. Belajar pakaian tradisional Cina, anda boleh menyelami budaya Cina.

Tudung kepala Cina kebanyakannya terdiri daripada topi atau topi, dan anting-anting serta penyepit rambut biasanya dipakai oleh wanita.
Topi yang dipakai oleh orang Han cenderung ringkas dan praktikal, dipakai untuk melindungi pemakainya daripada kesejukan, cahaya matahari atau hujan. Bagi sebilangan kumpulan etnik minoriti, bagaimanapun, topi dipakai lebih untuk hiasan daripada sebab berfungsi. Dengan beberapa kumpulan etnik minoriti topi malah menjadi sinonim dengan budaya mereka. Di beberapa bahagian di China, orang biasa memakai sapu tangan dan bukannya topi. Anting-anting juga merupakan aksesori biasa untuk wanita, jarang dipakai oleh lelaki. Anting-anting yang dipakai oleh wanita Han biasanya reka bentuk yang ringkas, manakala anting-anting tradisional yang dipakai oleh wanita daripada kumpulan etnik minoriti datang dalam pelbagai bentuk dan warna. Yunnan mempunyai 36 orang etnik, dan anda boleh mengalami tradisi etnik yang berbeza apabila anda belajar bahasa Cina di Yunnan.
Sepit rambut digunakan terutamanya untuk menahan rambut. Mereka biasanya diperbuat daripada logam, jed dan sebagainya.
Di China, terdapat pelbagai jenis kasut, dan bahan yang digunakan untuk membuatnya juga berbeza-beza, termasuk kulit, kain, plastik, jerami dan rami. Bahan yang digunakan mempunyai banyak kaitan dengan adat resam etnik dan iklim tempatan. Contohnya, but kulit dan but felt adalah perkara biasa di kawasan paling sejuk di Barat Laut dan Timur Laut China. Kasut kain buatan tangan tradisional selesa, dan ada yang direka dengan cantik, dengan corak yang rumit dijahit di bahagian luar, dan ia boleh dianggap sebagai artifak yang indah.
Adakah awak tahu?
Pakaian tradisional orang Han di China (terutamanya dipakai oleh orang Han dari zaman purba hingga permulaan Dinasti Qing) kini secara kolektif dipanggil hanfu (bermaksud “pakaian Han”). Ciri-ciri utamanya ialah kolar salib berbentuk Y, lapel kanan (bahagian kiri kolar melintasi sebelah kanan), selempang dan sebagainya. Terdapat pelbagai pakaian tradisional dalam budaya Cina, dan anda boleh mengetahui lebih lanjut jika anda menghadiri kursus bahasa mandarin yang mengasyikkan ini.
Anting-anting adalah aksesori biasa dan orang memakai yang berbeza dari semasa ke semasa. Walau bagaimanapun, di kalangan beberapa kumpulan etnik minoriti di China, terdapat adat yang berbeza untuk pemakaian anting-anting. Orang Yao, sebagai contoh, tidak akan menanggalkan anting-anting mereka sebaik sahaja mereka memakainya.
Di China purba, orang telah biasa memakai terompah, iaitu kasut kayu. Dikatakan bahawa terompah Confucius adalah sepanjang satu chi dan empat cun (kira-kira satu kaki dan lima inci). Sudah tentu, ini diukur mengikut unit panjang China purba (Chi purba sedikit lebih pendek daripada chi kontemporari).
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