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The anchor promoted Hanfu live at Youaiyuncang Hanfu Base in Cao County, Heze City, Shandong Province. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Guo Xulei "The supply of horse-faced skirts in Caoxian County exceeds demand", "College students return to Caoxian County to sell Hanfu", "Caoxian Hanfu goes global"... Caoxian Hanfu has continued to attract attention for some time. The reporter recently came to Cao County, Heze City, Shandong Province, and had in-depth exchanges with cadres, entrepreneurs, young people who have returned to their hometowns to start businesses, and farmers here, and gained a new understanding of the reasons for the Hanfu traffic blowout. Open the door to e-commerce Walking into Daji Town, Cao County, there are few vacant houses on both sides of the road. Shops selling fabrics, clothing pattern making, tailoring and sewing, digital printing, express logistics, etc. are densely packed and stretch for several kilometers. Thanks to more than ten years of development of the performance costume industry, Cao County has formed a sophisticated and complete market division of labor with small and medium-sized enterprises as units. "Cao County has a permanent population of more than 1.35 million. It is one of the most populous counties in Shandong. It…

"The supply of horse-faced skirts in Caoxian County exceeds demand", "College students return to Caoxian County to sell Hanfu", "Caoxian Hanfu goes global"... Caoxian Hanfu has continued to attract attention for some time. The reporter recently came to Cao County, Heze City, Shandong Province, and had in-depth exchanges with cadres, entrepreneurs, young people who have returned to their hometowns to start businesses, and farmers here, and gained a new understanding of the reasons for the Hanfu traffic blowout. The e-commerce economy allows rural industries to connect to the Internet and sell far away. Walking into Daji Town, Cao County, there are few vacant houses on both sides of the road. Shops selling fabrics, clothing pattern making, tailoring and sewing, digital printing, express logistics, etc. are densely packed and stretch for several kilometers. Thanks to more than ten years of development of the performance costume industry, Cao County has formed a sophisticated and complete market division of labor with small and medium-sized enterprises as units. "Cao County has a permanent population of more than 1.35 million. It is one of the most populous counties in Shandong. It was once the largest county in Shandong's labor export. More than ten years ago,…

April 14, Heze City People’s Square. The owner of an individual shop in Cao County who rents and sells Hanfu in the square opposite the Caozhou Peony Garden does not finish dressing until 22:00. This year, although there were many tourists at the Heze International Peony Cultural Tourism Festival, there were more businesses renting and selling Hanfu. This shop owner said: "Today weekend, I only rented out a few sets of Hanfu. Business is too difficult now." Behind the "Hanfu craze", there are some issues that require planning and thinking in advance, and maintaining an open and tolerant attitude. The return of Hanfu is not a time travel, but a true connection with history in terms of cognition, etiquette, festivals, etc. It is an enrichment of cultural life, an improvement in aesthetic quality, and a strengthening of spiritual taste.

In recent times, horse-faced skirts have become particularly popular and have become the focus of everyone's attention. At the same time, more people will focus on Cao County again. It is not difficult to find that whether it is "Cao County 666", New Year's greetings clothes, or horse-faced skirts, Caoxian County has been receiving widespread attention over the years. So, after the popularity of horse-faced skirts during the Spring Festival, how did Caoxian County seize the wave of horse-faced skirts and continuously innovate to keep its popularity and enter the homes of ordinary people with a high cost-effective advantage? The main reason why horse-faced skirt fabrics are in short supply "The batch of horse-faced skirts currently being produced are made with colorful craftsmanship. They look silver when viewed up close and green when viewed from a distance. They are even more colorful under the sun. The main selling point is that they change color. Although workers have been working overtime recently, The finished horse-faced skirts are still not enough to sell." Yesterday, in the production workshop of the Tang Dynasty Hanfu production base, store manager Jiang Lefang introduced to reporters the current hot sales of horse-faced skirts. Behind him was…

Cao County in Heze, Shandong Province, is located at the junction of the four provinces of Shandong, Suzhou, Henan and Anhui. Last year, Caoxian Hanfu’s online sales reached 7.215 billion yuan, accounting for 40% of the country’s market share. Netizens jokingly called Caoxian the “center of the universe.” Behind the Hanfu industry, what are the secrets to getting rich in Cao County? What are the combined forces behind the popularity of “the first dress in spring”? Search volume for Hanfu has skyrocketed since January this year The horse-faced skirt has become the most popular item in the Hanfu category In an e-commerce live broadcast room, two anchors skillfully introduced the store's horse-faced skirts. Since January this year, the number of searches for Hanfu has skyrocketed. Among them, the horse-faced skirt has become the most popular item in the Hanfu category. A Hanfu manufacturer in Caoxian County saw business opportunities and launched dozens of horse-faced skirt suits with dragon elements during the Spring Festival. In just two months, sales exceeded 30,000 sets. Yao Chixing, the general manager of the company, was initially worried about not being able to sell the product. Once the product went online, her concern became "overselling." "With…

The horse-faced skirt can be called “the first skirt in spring”. Previously, #400 college students returned to Caoxian town to sell horse-faced skirts# became a hot search topic. As one of China's major Hanfu production bases, Cao County in Heze City, Shandong Province, has ushered in a "tremendous wealth" with the popularity of horse-faced skirts this year. According to reports, starting from the year before, as of February this year, the sales of the Year of the Dragon New Year greeting clothes mainly produced in Caoxian County have exceeded 300 million yuan. A Hanfu horse-faced skirt merchant in Cao County said that offline sales increased dozens of times during the Chinese New Year, and a single online live broadcast account could also have an average daily sales of 200,000. After the Spring Festival, the popularity of horse-faced skirts has not diminished, and it has become a fashionable item for many people’s daily shopping and commuting. Picture source: Tu Chong Creative So, how did the horse-face skirt become so popular? Why is the horse-faced skirt “out of the circle” among so many styles of Hanfu? How did Caoxian County catch this "vast wealth"? The particularity of horse-faced skirt First of all,…

Chinese traditional culture has a long history, is extensive and profound. Excellent traditional culture can inject new creativity and inspiration into the clothing and fashion industry, and integrate more excellent traditional clothing culture into clothing design. This not only enhances the cultural value of the product, but also satisfies consumers’ needs for uniqueness and differentiation. At the moment, the Caoxian horse-faced skirt, which is popular all over the Internet, is the best example of designers integrating traditional Chinese "oriental aesthetics" into modern elements and aesthetic needs, thus giving new vitality to traditional Chinese clothing. On March 19, all-media reporters from Peony Evening News interviewed Hanfu enthusiasts and relevant scholars and listened to their talk about the fashionable charm of horse-faced skirts. Behind the "fire" of traditional clothing It is national self-confidence and cultural self-confidence Oriental beauty emphasizes harmony, balance and artistic conception, focusing on the harmony and unity of clothing, nature and the human body. The patterns, colors, lines and other elements in traditional clothing contain profound cultural connotations and artistic values. With the changes of the times, traditional costumes have gradually faded out of people's daily lives, being shelved or used only as decoration for specific occasions. Until November…

The horse-faced skirt is a traditional costume in ancient China. It is named after the "horse-faced" defensive building on the ancient city wall. In the past two years, Hanfu has continued to enter the public eye. Among them, the horse-faced skirt has become the "New Year's shirt" for young people with its simple and versatile style. During the Spring Festival this year, horse-faced skirts have become the "New Year shirt" for many people. Many young people will wear horse-faced skirts when visiting temple fairs, lantern viewing parties, and even visiting relatives and friends. With the popularity of Hanfu culture in China, sales of Hanfu, represented by horse-faced skirts, have surged on e-commerce platforms, and they have frequently appeared at major Spring Festival galas. This "most dazzling Chinese style" is not accidental For most consumers, the first time they got to know horse-faced skirts was the "plagiarism of horse-faced skirts" incident by an international brand in July 2022. On the streets abroad, many Chinese and international students wore Hanfu and held placards to protest, calling on the international brand to "plagiarize horse-faced skirts". Brands stop cultural appropriation. After this incident, horse-faced skirts began to appear in the public eye. From international…

Around Chen Xiaofeng, a wave of career changes quietly arrived. In the past, hardware workers would open Hanfu shops; girls who married out of town would have to return to their hometowns to sell Hanfu. Even the mayor of Daji Town in Caoxian County said that there are now 400 college students from Caoxian County who have returned to their hometowns to sell horse-faced skirts, and they are all so busy that they don’t even touch the ground. One of the most talked-about things among the locals is that a company in Cao County that originally made headphones turned around and started making horse-faced skirts. "All funds and personnel will be directed towards Caoxian County" Caoxian once again became the focus of everyone's attention. This time, it is not "666, Caoxian, Heze, Shandong, my baby" that is popular, but a skirt. The horse-faced skirt, a traditional costume originated from the Song Dynasty, has become a daily routine during this Spring Festival. When going from house to house to pay New Year greetings, many adults and children are wearing pleated and patterned silk horse-faced skirts. On social platforms, wearing horse-faced skirts has become a hot topic. The popularity reached its peak…

Caoxian horse-faced skirt □ Chutian Metropolis Daily Jimu News reporter Shen Wai Li Ying Photography: Chutian Metropolis Daily Jimu News reporter Li Ying Caoxian has two completely different looks. A look is “engraved” on the Internet. In 2021, this county in southwestern Shandong with a population of 1.75 million became popular because of an Internet celebrity calling Mai. In the carnival-like jokes made by netizens about "Bei, Shanghai, Guangcao", Caoxian is described as a cyber high-tech city with high-rise buildings and spaceships. It is a "universe" where even two apartments in Shanghai cannot be exchanged for "a bed in the outer ring". center". The other is the real Caoxian County. This county, part of Heze City, Shandong Province, is famous for its large population. It only takes half an hour to take the urban rail from Heze City to Caoxian County. Caoxian County has sharp-edged streets and buildings. There are few trees on both sides of the streets. Except for newly developed residential buildings, there are almost no high-rise buildings. Because it is close to Henan Province, Henan braised noodles and other restaurants can be seen everywhere on the streets. The locals' accent is also "Cao Pu" mixed with the…

Chinese traditional culture has a long history, is extensive and profound. Excellent traditional culture can inject new creativity and inspiration into the clothing and fashion industry, and integrate more excellent traditional clothing culture into clothing design. This not only enhances the cultural value of the product, but also satisfies consumers’ needs for uniqueness and differentiation. At the moment, the Caoxian horse-faced skirt, which is popular all over the Internet, is the best example of designers integrating traditional Chinese "oriental aesthetics" into modern elements and aesthetic needs, thus giving new vitality to traditional Chinese clothing. On March 19, Heze Newspaper’s all-media reporters interviewed Hanfu enthusiasts and relevant scholars and listened to their stories about the fashionable charm of horse-faced skirts. Behind the “popularity” of traditional clothing is national self-confidence and cultural self-confidence Oriental beauty emphasizes harmony, balance and artistic conception, focusing on the harmony and unity of clothing, nature and the human body. The patterns, colors, lines and other elements in traditional clothing contain profound cultural connotations and artistic values. With the changes of the times, traditional costumes have gradually faded out of people's daily lives, being shelved or used only as decoration for specific occasions. Until November 22, 2003, a…

Spring is here, and scenic spots such as the National Botanical Garden, Summer Palace, Old Summer Palace, and Jingshan Park welcome many flower-viewing tourists. Among them, many young people wearing traditional costumes take photos beside the red wall and under the plum blossoms, which gives a sense of traveling through time and space. During the Spring Festival this year, wearing horse-faced skirts to pay New Year greetings or taking photos in scenic spots became a beautiful sight. Especially on the Spring Festival Gala stage, the stunning appearance of the four performers of the traditional Chinese pattern creation show "Nian Brocade" allowed people to see the oriental beauty of traditional costumes such as Song brocade vests, Xiangyun gauze jackets, and embroidered horse-face skirts. It has helped traditional clothing, especially horse-faced skirts, become a hot trend in Chinese style fashion this year. Tourists wearing traditional costumes play in Jingshan Park. Photographed by our reporter Chen Chen National fashion "During the Spring Festival, I wore Ming Dynasty Hanfu to participate in the 2024 Ming Tombs New Year Garden Party. There were ancient markets, stilt walking, dragon and lion dances, Ming Dynasty costume parades and other activities at the garden party. Wandering there, it…

On March 9, CCTV Finance reported that in the first two months of this year, the supply of horse-faced skirts in Cao County, Shandong Province exceeded the demand, and the sales of horse-faced skirts were close to 550 million yuan. New Chinese style national trend + intangible cultural heritage. In recent years, they have frequently appeared in the circle. Wearing hairpins and horse-faced skirts have become the latest check-in combinations at many tourist attractions during the Spring Festival this year. Horse-faced skirts have become integrated into more people’s daily lives. In regular service, Fujian Youshen has become popular, attracting millions of tourists to the local area. Reporters from Xiaoxiang Morning News and Morning Video found that in recent years, "new Chinese styles" such as horse-faced skirts and hairpins have become popular, playing a new role in promoting consumption and driving industrial development in cultural tourism, fashion and other industries. Horse-faced skirt becomes New Year’s jersey During the Spring Festival, topics such as #Caoxian sold 300 million horse-faced skirts and are still in short supply# became hot searches. As a "New Year's jersey" that can be worn by all ages, the horse-faced skirt has undoubtedly become the most popular clothing item…

In recent times, horse-faced skirts have become particularly popular and have become the focus of everyone's attention. At the same time, more people will focus on Cao County again. It is not difficult to find that whether it is "Cao County 666", New Year's greetings clothes, or horse-faced skirts, Caoxian County has been receiving widespread attention over the years. So, after the popularity of horse-faced skirts during the Spring Festival, how did Caoxian County seize the wave of horse-faced skirts and continuously innovate to keep its popularity and enter the homes of ordinary people with a high cost-effective advantage? The main reason why horse-faced skirt fabrics are in short supply "The batch of horse-faced skirts currently being produced are made with colorful craftsmanship. They look silver when viewed up close and green when viewed from a distance. They are even more colorful under the sun. The main selling point is that they change color. Although workers have been working overtime recently, The finished horse-faced skirts are still not enough to sell." Yesterday, in the production workshop of the Tang Dynasty Hanfu production base, store manager Jiang Lefang introduced to reporters the current hot sales of horse-faced skirts. Behind him was…

Horse-face skirt - this new "national trend" item, even if you have never bought it, you must have seen others wearing it in the mall, at the subway station, or in the circle of friends. With the popularity of horse-faced skirts, the term "new Chinese style dressing" frequently appears in the public eye. On March 6, Douyin e-commerce released the "2024 Douyin E-commerce Women's Consumption Trend Data Report", which showed that in the past year, the number of orders for new Chinese-style clothing purchased by female users on Douyin e-commerce increased by 195% year-on-year. Among them, horse noodles The order volume of skirts increased by 841% year-on-year, and the order volume of Hanfu, Song brocade jackets, and Xiangyunsha clothing also grew at a considerable rate, with year-on-year growth of 336%, 225%, and 112% respectively. The new top-notch horse-faced skirt sold for 550 million yuan in two months According to CCTV Finance, in Cao County, Shandong Province, the largest production center for horse-faced skirts in my country, sales of local horse-faced skirts were close to 550 million yuan in the first two months of this year alone. In addition, according to e-commerce platform data, in the first two months of this…

01. Horse-faced skirts were "exploded" to beat workers Recently, deliberately wearing ugly clothes to work has become a new type of performance art for workers to fight against work. They wear cotton socks with high heels, down jackets with pajamas, and then go out without washing their hair or face. 25-year-old Fu Chen is one of those who wear ugly clothes to work. Since she clocks in at eight in the morning, when she opens her eyes every day, in order to save time, she will continue to pick up the clothes she wore the day before and put them on again. "My standard outfit is a black down jacket and light gray sports pants, which I usually wear for a week." It wasn't until the Women's Day a few days ago that the company held a Hanfu-themed event, which stipulated that Hanfu must be worn to participate. Fu Chen hurriedly bought a popular horse-faced skirt and reluctantly took off the gray dress that almost stuck to his legs. Sweatpants. Unexpectedly, this black horse-faced skirt made Fu Chen, who had always been unknown in the workplace, receive a lot of compliments. A colleague directly praised her for being "different" than…

This year, the manufacturers of horse-faced skirts in Caoxian County, Shandong Province were too busy during the Spring Festival holiday. "Customers called me on New Year's Eve." Meng Xiaoxia, chief designer of Caoxian Chenfei Clothing Co., Ltd., once again felt the "top status" of horse-faced skirts. At the urging of customers, the company's offline Hanfu showroom opened early on the first day of the new year. "On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, many customers really couldn't wait, so we sent our employees to work early with three times the salary." She said that the entire exhibition hall was full as soon as she got to work, and customers even took away the horse-faced skirts worn by the child models last winter. . Even before the Spring Festival, almost all of the company's products were sold out and there was no overstock. Currently, the factory is working overtime every day to produce. Not only Meng Xiaoxia's company, but the entire Cao County experienced a wave of horse-face skirt craze around the Spring Festival. According to data from the Cao County E-commerce Service Center, so far, sales of Cao County’s Year of the Dragon New Year greeting clothes, mainly…

Visiting the Horse Face Skirt Fever Cao County is a small county in Heze, Shandong Province. A few years ago, this place was ridiculed by netizens as the "center of the universe" and became popular. Recently, it once again "dominates" the hot searches because of its horse-faced skirt. In January and February alone, online sales of horse-faced skirts reached about 550 million yuan. Why are horse-faced skirts so popular? Why is this fire burning in Caoxian County? Can horse-faced skirts remain popular? What is the Chinese story behind the popularity of Hanfu? This issue of "A Closer Look at China" specially invites Moldovan observer Aileen to visit the horse-faced skirt epidemic in Cao County. " Buy a favorite horse-faced skirt Cao County Cao County’s Hanfu industry is well-known nationwide. There are two Hanfu industry centers here, and Aileen visited one of them, Daji Town. The streets here are dotted with Hanfu shops, and Ai Lin couldn't wait to shop around. She wanted to choose a horse-faced skirt for herself. A horse-faced skirt usually refers to a two-piece skirt with a skirt shaped like a "horse face" on a city wall and pleated on both sides. It took shape during the…

No one can tell who started this trend first. But in Caoxian County, there is a "myth" widely circulated among Hanfu merchants: last year, in a live broadcast room in Caoxian County, the sales of horse-faced skirts reached hundreds of thousands of yuan a day. Horse-faced skirts have become a hot money-making opportunity in Caoxian County, and Caoxian County has become the focus again because of horse-faced skirts. In 2021, this county in southwestern Shandong was nicknamed the "center of the universe" on the Internet because of a netizen's "Shouting Mai". The traffic has passed, but Caoxian County is not as "short-lived" as imagined. In the past few years, Sun Xiangyu, a post-95 Hanfu merchant in Caoxian County, has worked in logistics, tried e-commerce, and sold costumes. He has witnessed the return of the national trend blowing to the land of Caoxian through the Internet and constantly reshaping it. With this county. His experience is the epitome of many Caoxian people. In Sun Xiangyu's view, behind Caoxian County's renewed popularity lies the vitality of this county, which will change at the right time and always follow the direction of the market. "There are no limits, opportunities come, let's see who…

In December 2023, the horse-faced skirt, one of the standard features of Hanfu, was rated as one of Taobao's top ten products of the year, and also became a popular "New Year's shirt" during the 2024 Spring Festival. Many consumers' initial recognition of horse-faced skirts may come from the "horse-faced skirt incident" two years ago, from celebrities carrying goods, or from social media promotion, but no matter what, horse-faced skirts are very popular. , and whether the Hanfu represented by this skirt is about to usher in great wealth is worthy of our attention. 01 The Origin of Chinese Clothing: The Horse-faced Skirt Broken by Accident In this Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon, you must have seen many people wearing a dignified and gorgeous pleated skirt on the streets and tourist attractions. In this year’s three-piece New Year’s suit of “buying new clothes, getting a manicure, and perming your hair”, horse-faced skirts suddenly emerged and became many people’s “New Year’s shirts” and also became the number one item in many people’s wardrobes. A piece of Hanfu. According to Taobao data, during the Double 11 period in 2023 alone, Taobao sold more than 730,000 horse-faced skirts, which could…

The horse-faced skirt is the most popular ancient costume this year. In the first two months of this year, sales of horse-faced skirts in Cao County, Heze, were close to 550 million yuan. On March 26, a reporter saw at a horse-faced skirt manufacturer in Wenzhuang Village, Yandianlou Town, Cao County, that more than a dozen workers were busy making horse-faced skirts in preparation for the upcoming sales peak. April will usher in another sales peak for horse-faced skirts This company, Cao County Jiang Yishan Clothing Co., Ltd., started selling horse-faced skirts in July last year. The person in charge of the company, Zhao Ru, watched as the average daily sales of horse-faced skirts increased from twenty to thirty orders to over 100% within two months. Thousands of orders. In Zhao Ru's view, the surge in sales is not only due to the cost-effectiveness of the product itself, but also to the fact that he provides consumers with a better service experience as much as possible, such as using SF Express to deliver goods to their doorsteps. In the past month, Zhao Ru has just added a new production workshop in Wenzhuang Village, Yandianlou Town. "As long as the demand…

The horse-faced skirt can be called “the first skirt in spring”. Previously, #400 college students returned to Caoxian town to sell horse-faced skirts# became a hot search topic. As one of China's major Hanfu production bases, Cao County in Heze City, Shandong Province, has ushered in a "tremendous wealth" with the popularity of horse-faced skirts this year. According to reports, starting from the year before, as of February this year, the sales of the Year of the Dragon New Year greeting clothes mainly produced in Caoxian County have exceeded 300 million yuan. A Hanfu horse-faced skirt merchant in Cao County said that offline sales increased dozens of times during the Chinese New Year, and a single online live broadcast account could also have an average daily sales of 200,000. After the Spring Festival, the popularity of horse-faced skirts has not diminished, and it has become a fashionable item for many people’s daily shopping and commuting. Picture source: Tu Chong Creative So, how did the horse-face skirt become so popular? Why is the horse-faced skirt “out of the circle” among so many styles of Hanfu? How did Caoxian County catch this "vast wealth"? The particularity of horse-faced skirt First of all,…

At the beginning of the Year of the Dragon, Caoxian County in Heze, Shandong Province became popular again. Topics such as "Caoxian Horse Face Skirts sold for more than 300 million yuan during the Chinese New Year are still in short supply" and "College students return to Caoxian County to start a business" were frequently searched. So what exactly is the charm of Hanfu in Caoxian County? Let’s start with the entrepreneurial experience of Wei Pingan and his wife Wang Qingqing. The couple are college students who returned to Caoxian County in 2019 to start a business. Last year, the turnover from selling horse-faced skirts reached tens of millions. How the horse-faced skirt became a sought-after "New Year shirt" During the Spring Festival this year, sales of Hanfu, mainly horse-faced skirts, in Cao County exceeded 300 million yuan. Almost all Hanfu manufacturers in Caoxian County are operating at full capacity, and Wei Ping'an and his employees are working overtime day and night. This time, the two dragon-patterned horse-faced skirts produced by Wei Ping'an have become hits. Wei Ping'an: Because this year's Chinese New Year is the Year of the Dragon, we specially designed two more beautiful horse-faced skirts with dragon…