In China, there are so many beautiful things of antiquity that can only be known from the study and research of these ancient times. 

 

The Chinese clothing has a long history. It shows us the culture of our nation and the wisdow of our people.

The Chinese style of Clothing has a long history going back several thousand years. According to legend, Leizu（嫘祖）, the wife of Huang-Di（黃帝）, started raising silkworms in captivity and invented a way to produce silk cloth. Huang-Di designed a beautiful type of clothing with the silk cloth. This style of clothing became the national garments of Huaxia（華夏）. The garments became known as Chinese Clothing.

In the Zhou（周） Dynasty which existed from the 11th century B.C. to the 3rd century B.C., Chinese Clothing took on different appearances according to different social status. Qi（齊） State was an affluent country and the people loved beautiful clothing, so Qi became known as “the land of beautiful clothing”（冠帶衣履天下）.

In the Tang（唐） Dynasty, the Chinese style of clothing was very popular at the time because of the great power of the Tang Empire. Ancient Chinese clothing had a direct effect on the clothing of other Oriental cultures. The Korean style of clothing was modeled from the court style of the Tang Dynasty. The Japanese Kimono was modeled after the normal national clothing of Han（漢） Nation. Wang Wei（王維）, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty, said the origin of Japanese-style clothing was the clothing style of the Han Dynasty, a great dynasty of ancient China.

Huaxia Clothing (華夏衣冠, or called Han Clothing, 漢服) has been known as the Chinese style of clothing for several thousand years. This kind of garments were representative of ancient Oriental Civilization spanning millenniums. In the 17th century, the Ming（明） Dynasty (the last empire of Han Nation), was destroyed. With that destruction, came the demise of Huaxia culture which included Chinese styles of clothing, Huaxia hairstyles, Huaxia and Huaxia Soul.