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The origin of kimono

The origin of kimono: Kimono is a Japanese national costume, which was developed from the Han costume in China.

Kimono originated from Han and Tang costumes in China, and gradually formed a modern kimono style in Japan after later improvement, but it is basically not much different from Han and Tang costumes. With the customs and background of the times, the wearing skills of kimono were born after careful consideration and test.

The elegant and beautiful patterns on clothes come from the appreciation of mountains and rivers and the attachment to Japanese customs, and even from the delicate feeling of humanistic spirit and situation. As for the purse, it was created by Japanese women under the influence of Christian missionaries wearing robes and belts.

Manufacturing technology of kimono:

According to different seasons, kimonos have their own collocation rules in terms of types, materials, patterns and even ornaments, especially those who practice traditional Japanese techniques such as tea ceremony, flower shape and dance, and pay more attention to the tradition of clothing. The forms of time clothes are divided into single clothes, quilted clothes and cotton-padded clothes. It is a lined kimono. Cotton brocade is a silk cotton sandwich. Change into summer clothes after Dragon Boat Festival.

From 10 to early May of the following year, it was awkward. Japanese women's kimonos like to change clothes with the theme of seasons. In kimono paintings, plum blossoms in spring, calamus in summer, maple trees in autumn and pine trees in winter are all directly related to the Japanese sense of season.

The weaving, dyeing and embroidering of kimono itself, as well as the complicated rules when wearing it, should comb out different hairstyles according to the types of kimono, making it an art, which is the concentrated embodiment of Japanese dyeing and weaving technology for thousands of years.