Wearing a hairpin bachelor's hat and embroidered patterns on the shoulders, walking around the campus, the Hanfu skirt hidden under the dark bachelor's uniform is looming, smart and elegant... Nowadays, the mix and match of national style costumes and bachelor's uniform is popular. The graduation season of Chinese universities has captured the hearts of young people represented by "Generation Z".
“I grafted the Hanfu makeup and hairpin production I learned in school onto the bachelor’s uniform, and planned to take a group of Hanfu photos to make graduation more ceremonial.” “Post-00s” Liu Qingge She is the president of the Hanfu Club of Shandong Women's University, and is currently designing her own graduation costumes.
In her opinion, accessories such as Hanfu and hairpins all reflect the aesthetics and wisdom of ancient Chinese people. "What we wear is not just a piece of clothing, but also culture. Wearing Hanfu is the best way to inherit and protect it."
In May 2023, Liu Qingge took a photo wearing a robe from the Qin and Han Dynasties. (File picture, photo provided by interviewee)
The 24-year-old Jiang Yi is also a "loyal fan" of Chinese style clothing. She told reporters that she was about to graduate with a master's degree. She recently planned to buy a simple and elegant cheongsam with cloud shoulders, take a group of "Republic of China style" graduation photos with her classmates, and also made intangible cultural heritage velvet flowers to decorate her bachelor's cap.
“We plan to imitate the female intellectuals during the Republic of China, and feel that their outfits are gentle and intellectual.” Jiang Yi said that graduation means completing an important stage in life, and taking “Republic of China style” photos is not only a A kind of commemoration, but also an expression of expectations for oneself.
On social media, many Chinese students studying abroad also posted "national style graduation outfits" and dubbed them "Chinese princess graduation photos." "I specially selected a horse-faced skirt with a combination of embroidery and bronzing. I wanted to show off a bit more of the beauty of Chinese clothing in a foreign country. I would be constantly stared at when walking on the road and feel the attraction of traditional culture." Recently graduated from Japan's Waseda University. Chinese international student Pan Pan (pseudonym) wrote in the caption when sharing her graduation photos.
National-style outfits are popular during the graduation season, and also include clothing and accessories such as Hanfu, cloud shoulders, and hairpins. The hot search list of an e-commerce platform shows that topics such as "National style bachelor's uniform with cloud shoulders", "Bachelor's uniform with horse skirt", "Bachelor's uniform with Chinese style round fan" and other topics are very popular, and the search volume of "Hairpin bachelor's hat" once exceeded 760 Thousands of times.
In Cao County, Heze, the main production and sales base of Chinese Hanfu, merchantsWe are rushing to make orders to satisfy the aspirations of graduating students from all over the world for "clouds, clothes, and flowers."
"Currently, we have received a relatively large number of orders for Yunjian. Products with elegant styles and traditional Chinese patterns such as auspicious clouds and flowers have higher sales." Yao Chixing, general manager of Caoxian Luo Ruyan Hanfu Company According to the introduction, in the Ming Dynasty, it was very common to wear long robes, cloud shoulders, and horse-faced skirts underneath. Contemporary young people have replaced their robes with academic uniforms, recreating the elegance and ease of Ming Dynasty clothing.
In March 2024, at the Caoxian Hanfu production base, Yao Chixing (first from the right) explained the cultural elements on the horse-faced skirt to customers. (File photo) Photo by reporter Liang Ben
In an interview, Li Jie, dean of the School of Fashion at Shandong University of Arts and Crafts, believed that the national-style dressing set off a new trend in the graduation season, not because of the wind in the plains, but in China. The fashion field has a profound accumulation of traditional cultural inheritance and innovation. At the same time, "Generation Z" has a growing sense of identity with local culture and has given traditional clothing a sense of ritual, helping to make national fashion more popular.
Li Jie also observed that behind the craze, the development of traditional clothing such as Hanfu as an industry is still in its early stages, with problems such as uneven quality and insufficient original design capabilities. He suggested that national style clothing brands should dig deep into the connotation of traditional Chinese culture, not only highlight traditional aesthetics, but also meet the needs of modern life, improve the design and production quality of fabrics and craftsmanship, explore new expressions of traditional culture, and make products stand the test of time and history. precipitation.
(Source: China News Network reporter Zhao Xiao)
