Finally have an INPRNT store with some fanarts ANd original illustrations 😊😊
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Fujian Tulou 福建土楼 "Fujian earthen buildings" are rural dwellings unique to the Hakka people in the mountainous areas in Fujian province, China. The Tulou dwelling was featured in Mulan (2020).
They were mostly built between the 12th and the 20th centuries. Most of them can house up to 800 people.
Chinese guardian beasts that were placed on rooftops to guard the house and scare away the evil spirits (fun fact: this cultural practice was spread to Okinawa/Ryukyu from China)
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chinese characters cosplayed by 海鷗萬歲
cnetizens teasing him
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lutong鹿童 the deer boy from NeZha2 (spoiler alert)
started with a spark, now we're on fire 🔥
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Anonymous asked:
Hi! I keep seeing hanfu robes with just one shoulder, usually for men. What's up with that? Is it a thing that actually existed?
Hi, thanks for the question, and sorry for taking ages to reply!
Yes, the style of wearing hanfu robes with just one shoulder for men existed historically, during the Tang dynasty. As @beehunni62 wrote in this post:
The specific trend of hanfu worn here was one used during the Tang Dynasty, specifically for archery and/or horse riding. It’s composed of a white silk round collar undershirt 圆领汗衫中衣, a jacket called a banbi 半臂, and a round collar robe 圓領袍.
The sleeve pertaining to the arm of the dominant hand was removed from the shoulder and tucked under the belt to allow for maximum mobility and comfort while shooting arrows or horse riding.
The trend created the opportunity for two or more different fabrics to be placed side by side showcasing an aesthetic contrast.
Please check out the post for a more detailed explanation with images.
Hope this helps! ^^
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Hi! I hope you don't mind me asking a question about Chinese clothing. I'm not Chinese but I freaking love watching Chinese films and C-Drama. One thing I'm very curios about is the Emperor's hanfu during the Tang Dynasty. Is there a specific name for that hanfu? And should it always be in gold? And does the Emperor have a crown?Please keep up the great work, btw! I love reading your posts and I I love learning more about Chinese culture. Please have a great day ahead! :)
Hi, thanks for the questions!
The main garments of Chinese emperors (including those of the Tang Dynasty) were the Longpao/龙袍 (dragon robe) and the Mianfu/冕服. Longpao was the everyday dress of emperors (after the Sui Dynasty). Mianfu is what emperors wore on important occasions. I made a post about Mianfu here.
During the Tang dynasty, yellow was considered the superior color for garments, and the court made it officialthat no one besides the emperor had the right to wearyellow. However, the emperor did not always have to wear yellow. He could also wear other colors such as black, red, and purple. Below - Tang Dynasty emperor wearing yellow Longpao:
Yes, Chinese emperors wore crowns called Mianguan/冕冠, to go with Mianfu. You can read more about Mianguan in my post here.
Finally, thank you so much for your encouraging words! I’m so glad that you love reading my posts and find them useful.
Hope you have a great day ahead as well! :D
The ceremonial garments of the Emperor always remained Mianfu, the Robe and Crown Regalia. (And not only was it the regalia for the Emperors, it was for all his nobles and officials as well, being divided into five grades. Officially, there’s six, but the Great Coat Robe/大衮冕 went out of use after the Tang Dynasty. The five grades of Mianfu were: Dragon Crown Robe/衮冕, the Phoenix Crown Robe/鷩冕, the Fur Crown Robe/毳冕, the Linen Crown Robe/絺冕, and the Black Crown Robe/玄冕, all named for their dominant emblem) It was not until the Ming Dynasty that the Emperors came up with an official yellow Dragon Robe. A Dragon Robe is considered festive clothing, and even then only for non-official occasions. It’s something the Emperor might wear in private or when hosting a banquet for his officials.
How things turned out this way is actually a funny story. Despite being the color of the Earth and the central color in Chinese color theory, yellow was originally a very cheap and not well regarded color. It was easy to produce from a variety of common materials including gardenia berries and mandarin melon berries. As a result, it was a publicly accessible color that sold cheaply and was widely worn by the lower classes. In that case, how did such a cheap color make its way to the Imperial palace? Well, during the Sui Dynasty, China got a tightwad emperor. Emperor Wen of Sui (official name Yang Jian, childhood name Narayana) was a penny-pinching miser who insisted on the cheapest, simplest, and least labor intensive of anything. A good thing too, seeing as how he had to lead the nation out of the turbulence of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Since he lived simply, his clothes were made of the cheapest color on the market: yellow. In the succeeding Tang Dynasty, the earliest emperors led a nation recovering from the ravages of Emperor Yang of Sui (the son of the penny-pinching guy). As a result, they also lived frugally and carried on the tradition of yellow robes. Finally, so many emperors wore yellow in their daily lives that ochre yellow was officially made the imperial color, and future emperors got their own set of yellow dragon robes…in a shade definitely not available to the general public.
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Are there any good examples of Sui Dynasty hanfu? Thank you!
Because the Sui dynasty ruled for a short time, many aspects basically followed the old system of the northern and Southern Dynasties. I found some information that hopefully will be helpful to you.
Men’s clothing in the early Sui Dynasty: The figurines of clerical officials excavated (figure 1) from the tomb of Li Jingxun (李静训) in Xi'an, for example, Zhe (褶) on top and a Ku (裤) on the bottom, and wear small Guan (冠, crown) on heads, a common style of clothing in the Northern Dynasty.
The frescoes in the tomb of Xu Minxing (徐敏行) and his wife, also excavated near Xi'an, the costumes and hairstyles of the characters painted on them are similar to those of the Northern dynasty murals. In addition, there are also robe clothing, wearing a Pingjin ze (平巾帻) figures, these are still influenced by the Wei and Jin dynasties wide clothes and large sleeves, long skirts dress.
Figure 1:
Sui dynasty women’s clothing: Women wore long skirts with small sleeves and high waist, and the skirt was tied above the chest. Hairstyle on the flat and wider, unearthed in Luoyang Sui dynasty figurines and Dunhuang murals seen in the image of the general so.
Such as the Dunhuang Mogao Caves 390 caves of Sui women mural drawings (figure 2), noblewomen wearing large-sleeved clothes, outer cape (shawl), or small-sleeved clothes, small-sleeved outer clothing more lapel style. Maidservant and musicians wore small-sleeved shirts, high-waisted long skirts, sagging belts, capes on their shoulders, and double buns on their heads. Li Jingxun tomb excavated sarcophagus on both sides of the door engraved two thin figure of the maidservant (figure 3) , is also made so dressed.
Figure 2:
Figure 3:
At the same time, you can also refer to the clothing of the North and South Dynasties and the clothing of the Tang Dynasty.
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7 types of hats for men that could be worn with Nguyễn dynasty's round collar robes:
1. Cửu long thông thiên: picture 1, for the emperor
2. Đường cân: picture 2 to 4, for the emperor and princes
3. Bình đính: picture 5
4. Kim quan: picture 6 & 7
5. Giải trãi (note the two horns): for mandarins in the justice system, picture 8
6. Ô sa with curved corners: for civil mandarins, picture 9
7. Ô sa with square corners: for military mandarins, picture 8
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chinese hanfu by 羽月司衣局
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