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Hanfu, is Hanfu the most beautiful clothing in ancient times?

Hanfu, the full name is "Traditional Costumes of the Han Nationality", also known as Han Clothes, Han Clothes, and Chinese Clothing. It was the main residence of the Han people from the accession of the Yellow Emperor to the middle of the 17th century (late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty). The area, with the "Chinese-Han" culture as the background and leading idea, with the Chinese etiquette culture as the center, has a unique Han nationality style and character formed through natural evolution, which is obviously different from the traditional clothing and accessories system of other ethnic groups. It is China's " The embodiment of "the country of clothes", "the country of etiquette", "splendid China" and the country of Seris, carries the Han people's outstanding craftsmanship and aesthetics such as dyeing, weaving and embroidery, and inherits more than 30 Chinese intangible cultural heritage and protected Chinese Arts and crafts.

Similar to the word Han people, the denotation of the word "Han" in Hanfu has also been expanded from the Han Dynasty to refer to the entire nation. For example, the earliest record of "Hanfu" in "Mawangdui Tomb No. 3": "Jian Sisi 'four beauties, two of them were in Chu clothes and two were in Han clothes'" [1] The "Hanfu" in ? The clothing and etiquette system of the Han Dynasty is the crown clothing system in "Zhou Li", "Ritual" and "Book of Rites" [2]?; It was recorded in the "Manshu" written in the Tang Dynasty: "At first, Han clothing was adopted, and later on Referring to the customs of the Rong Dynasty, so far, only the morning glow wraps around the head, and the rest are the same." The "Hanfu" in "Hanfu" refers to the clothing and etiquette system of the Han people [3]?

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Hanfu "began from the Yellow Emperor and was prepared by Yao and Shun"[4]?, and originated from the crown uniform made by the Yellow Emperor[5]?. It was finalized in the Zhou Dynasty, and through the Han Dynasty, a complete crown service system was formed based on the Four Books and Five Classics, and became part of the Shinto teachings. [6] ?Therefore, all Chinese dynasties later followed Zhou Fahan and regarded the inheritance of Han clothes and crown as a national event [7] ?So there was the public opinion in the Twenty-Four Histories. "The Yellow Emperor, Yao, and Shun used clothes to rule the world, and the benefits were taken from the universe."[8] This means that the shape of the upper garment and lower garment is determined by the will of heaven and is sacred[9-10]. Hanfu has also influenced the entire Han cultural circle through the Chinese legal system. The costumes of some ethnic groups in Asian countries, such as Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia, Bhutan, etc., all have or draw lessons from the characteristics of Hanfu.