Notes

**Clothing:** __**A. Traditional Chinese Dress**__

Present:
 * 1) Mao-style suits
 * thick, dark blue cotten
 * simple tunic with buttons down front
 * was first used for uniforms in army
 * appeared when China became Republic
 * later used too by civilians because of simple design and tough fabric for times when people needed something warm and lasting
 * women wore Mao-style suits too

2. Today Men:
 * new fashions also incorporate age-old motifs such as guardian deities, lions, and masks of Chinese opera characters
 * Chinese bronze is another source of printed, woven, embroidered, and applied design for clothes
 * Some of the distinctive designs include dragons, phoenixes, clouds, and lightning. Motifs from traditional Chinese painting also end up in woven or printed fashion designs.
 * men are seen at social occasions wearing the dignified and refined traditional Chinese long gown

Women:
 * women often wear the ch'i-p'ao, a modified form of a traditional Ching Dynasty fashion, on formal occasions

---Many accessories such as macramé are used to decorate shoulders, bodices, pockets, seams, and openings of clothing, as well as belts, hair ornaments, and necklaces. Some successful examples of combinations of modern and traditional fashion elements are the modern bridal tiara, based on a Sung Dynasty design and the Hunan Province style of embroidered sash made in the traditional colors of pure red, blue, and green. From these examples, it can be seen how traditional Chinese dress is the foundation of modern fashion. However, the Chinese have also adopted many Western styles of clothing such as business suits and jeans.


 * __B. Ancient Chinese Dress__**
 * 1) __Cheongsam__
 * worn before Cultural Revolution
 * long, slim dress with modest slit up side to formal function


 * [[image:Cheongsam.jpeg]]

__2. Hanfu__
 * In English it would be known as a silk robe
 * Made famous by the Han Dynasty rulers

__3. Tunics__ "Pien fu"

Women: Men: All:
 * wore long tunics down to the ground with belts sometimes
 * two-piece ceremonial costume of a tunic-like top extending to the knees and a skirt or trousers extending to the ankles
 * wore shorter tunics down to their knees
 * sometimes wore jackets over it
 * In the winter, when it was cold, people wore padded jackets over their tunics, and sometimes pants under them.
 * In early China, poor people made their clothes of hemp or ramie.
 * Rich people wore silk.
 * During the Sui Dynasty, in the 500's AD, the emperor decided that all poor people had to wear blue or black clothes, and only rich people could wear colors.
 * Then in the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols brought cotton to China. At first people didn’t want to grow cotton, maybe because the people running the silk industry wanted to keep people buying silk. But the Mongol invasions in the 1200’s destroyed a lot of the mulberry trees that were needed to make silk. The Mongol emperors, like Kublai Khan, turned to cotton to fill the gap. In 1289 AD they ordered the opening of special training centers to teach farmers how to grow cotton. And in 1296 they ordered that farmers who grew cotton could pay lower taxes. Soon everyone liked cotton better than ramie or hemp. Cotton was warmer, and softer, and stronger, and cheaper. You could make it thin for summer, or you could make thick padded clothes out of it that were warm for winter.


 * __D. Three Main Types of Traditional Clothing__**

(Copy and Pasted) The three main types of traditional Chinese clothing are the pien-fu, the ch'ang-p'ao, and the shen-i. The pien-fu is an ancient two-piece ceremonial costume of a tunic-like top extending to the knees and a skirt or trousers extending to the ankles. The ch'ang-p'ao is a one-piece garment extending from the shoulders all the way to the heels. The shen-i is a cross between the pien-fu and the ch'ang-p'ao; it consists of a tunic and a skirt or trousers like the pien-fu, but the tunic and the skirt are sewed together and essentially one piece like the ch'ang-p'ao. Consequently, the shen-i was the most widely worn of the three types. Typical of these three types of clothing were wide and voluminous sleeves and a very loose fit. Tunic and trousers or tunic and skirt, utilized a very minimum number of stitches for the amount of cloth used. So because of their relatively plain design and structure, embroidered edgings, decorated bands, draped cloth or silks, patterns on the shoulders, and sashes were often added as ornamentation. These varied designs came to be one of the unique features of traditional Chinese dress. Darker colors were favored over lighter ones in traditional Chinese clothing, so the main color of ceremonial clothing tended to be dark while bright, elaborate tapestry designs accented. Lighter colored clothing was worn more frequently by the common people for everyday and around the house use. The Chinese associate certain colors with specific seasons: green represents spring, red symbolizes summer, white represents autumn, and black symbolizes winter. The Chinese are said to have a fully developed system of matching, coordinating, and contrasting colors and shades of light and dark in apparel.


 * __C. Children Dressing__**
 * 1) The Red Scarf
 * worn around neck by school children
 * represents a corner of the Chinese Flag
 * worn by members of the Young Pioneers League, junior section of the Communist Party
 * scarf is formally presented to children by ceremony
 * children later decide if they want to join the Communist party's youth league

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**Hairstyles**:   Makeup  **Other Info: ** The Chinese Symbol For Beauty Helpful Links:
 * In ancient China when a girl was unmarried her hair would be worn very long and always braided
 * Most people in China, both men and women, wore their hair long. People said that you got your hair from your parents and so it was disrespectful to cut it.
 * The Manchu regime of the time dictated that men shaved the front of the head and wore the back hair long and braided, tied with black silk.
 * in ancient China when a girl was unmarried her hair would be worn very long and always braided
 * married women would wear their hair short and in a tight knot at the top
 * at this point in time there was something known as the Manchu Regimen that made men shave the front of their heads and where their hair in a pony tail with a black black bend in the back.
 *  today Chinese women don't just keep their hair straight and black a lot of them actually dye their hair in strands of different colors
 * 
 * Today in china makeup styles are very heavy on the eye shadowing and very light and pale colors on the lips and glitter they also use false eye lashes and bright eye shadow dust for women
 * (copy and pasted)
 * Skin colour corrector
 * Concealer
 * Golden brown eye shadow
 * Medium brown eye shadow
 * Beige eye shadow
 * Foundation
 * Shimmering pearl liquid foundation
 * Loose Powder
 * Tweezers
 * Black eye-liner pencil
 * Black eye-brow pencil
 * Black mascara
 * Bronzer
 * these are some other types of makeups that Chinese people put on today
 * 1) http://www.chinavista.com/experience/old/beauty.html
 * 2) http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/clothing

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-Chinese Queue:
The Chinese Queue was a hairstyle worn by the Manchus from Manchuria. The hairstyle has the hair shaved off above the temples in the front. The rest of the hair is back in a ponytail. They ponytail could never be cut off or else it would be justify as treason. The Chinese didn't have to wear the hairstyle anymore in the early 1910's, but many still wore them as a tradition.