China has accepted western fashion and technology as it has developed these years, but a lot of young people are turning to the past for their clothes choices and putting on traditional "Hanfu".
Hanfu is the traditional clothing of the Han people who lived in China before the Qing Dynasty. It has been around for about 3, 000 years and changed greatly across different dynasties.
As the government encourages the renaissance (复兴) of traditional culture, Hanfu is getting more and more popular with the teenagers. Every year, we can enjoy different Hanfu shows around the cities. And now quite a few Hanfu clubs have been set up in universities. Members usually wear Hanfu at their graduation ceremonies or during holidays. Some even wear Hanfu on regular days, too. And these fans created a special day—China Haniu Day to celebrate traditional Chinese clothing. It falls on the third day of the third month in Chinese lunar calendar (阴历).
In modern China, the Hanfu lovers are from history fans, cartoon fans to clothes fans "Clothes are the basic part of culture, so both the traditional clothes and modern clothes play the same role in culture," said Zhang Jun, a famous reporter. "If the people and the country do not even understand our traditional clothes or don't wear them, how can we talk about other important parts of our culture?"
