Hanfu has become a “fashionable item” for young people nowadays. Why do they love Hanfu culture?

Hanfu has become a “fashionable item” for young people nowadays. Why do they love Hanfu culture?

Hanfu has become a "fashionable item" for many young people today - horse-faced skirts, chest-high underskirts, and quilted skirts. Whether at tourist attractions, wedding ceremonies, shopping, gatherings with friends, or even square dancing, Wearing Hanfu has become a new trend. At the just-concluded ChinaJoy, visitors often encountered carefully dressed models wearing Hanfu when visiting the exhibition.

Perhaps a certain beautiful lady you meet by chance is a contestant participating in this year's ChinaJoy Luoshang Huafu·Rookie Competition, and the competition catwalk performance has become a beautiful scenery.

Morning News reporters took this opportunity to interview the three gold, silver and bronze medal winners of this competition and asked them to talk about their indissoluble bond with Hanfu.

02:02Why do they love Hanfu

Zipei, the gold medal winner of the competition, is 24 years old and has been in the Hanfu circle for six years. Speaking of the opportunity to learn about Hanfu, Zipei revealed that it was because she came into contact with some intangible cultural heritage handicrafts. At first, she simply lamented that everyone looked good in Hanfu, and others also thought she was suitable for wearing Hanfu, so she "fell into the trap."

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Zi Pei, who has been fond of history since he was a child, felt the weight of history even more when he put on Hanfu. "After wearing this costume, whether it is the middle seam representing the uprightness and holding the center, or the intersection of the collars representing the harmony of heaven and earth. Yin and Yang combine, how can one not like this?"

Silver medal winner Yuanyuan has been studying Peking Opera since she was a child. The costumes in Peking Opera are all based on the costumes of the Ming Dynasty, plus her university background. My major is also about the study of clothing history. After learning more about traditional clothing culture, I fell deeply in love with Hanfu. She has been practicing Hanfu for 9 years. The strong inclusiveness of Hanfu has gradually made Yuanyuan more confident, allowing her to find a style that suits her.

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Mary Duck, who won the bronze medal, has been exposed to Hanfu for the shortest time among the three. After studying in the Hanfu circle for three years, this is her first time to participate in a Hanfu-related competition.

When Mary Duck was a child, she liked to read the four major Chinese classics with her grandfather. At that time, she felt the beauty of traditional culture.

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Now her love for Hanfu has influenced her major choice and career planning. She is studying art design and hopes to design cultural products containing traditional cultural elements in the future.

What they have in common after falling in love with Hanfu

The three award-winning models had different opportunities to enter the industry and have been exposed to Hanfu for different lengths of time, but what they have in common is a sense of responsibility in promoting traditional Chinese culture.

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Zipei said that she always felt that she should do something to let more people know about Hanfu. “A lot of traditional culture needs us to get in touch with, understand and inherit, otherwise we may not be able to find it in the future, just like some disappearing traditional handicrafts. Same. Through Hanfu, you may want to learn more about traditional culture, for example, because you want to match a certain style of Hanfu, and to learn about the traditional techniques of the time, such as filigree inlays, velvet flowers, etc., or because you want to be better. To express the Hanfu on us and understand the historical and cultural development at that time. ”

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Yuanyuan lamented: "The beauty of the uniforms is called Hua, and the etiquette is great, so it is called Xia. It is remarkable that our Chinese civilization has never had a cultural gap since ancient times, and clothing culture is also a very colorful part of it. Part of it. As Chinese, we must understand our own history and culture, including clothing culture. We hope that more young people will start to wear Hanfu, take to the streets and go abroad, so that everyone can see the beauty of our traditional Hanfu. . ”

“If you love it, promote it, like it, you can wear our own Chinese clothes at any time, because the beauty of Hanfu is in China, and I hope my friends can discover us through the beauty of Hanfu. The beauty of traditional culture. "This is their love for Hanfu and their sincere expectations for friends who want to get into Hanfu.