Dandong Culture

"Magpie Dress" in Yunnan In the Yunnan local dialect, a small intermontane plain is called a bazi. Baofengba in Puning County is a village inhabited by the Hans. When I saw Luo Meiying, the township leader, she wore a typical peasant dress: a black cloth scarf wrapped apron on her head, a white tight jacket covered with a b ...
Chinese Cheongsam (QIPAO)
The cheongsam is a female dress with distinctive Chinese features and enjoys a growing popularity in the international world of high fashion.The name "cheongsam," meaning simply "long dress," entered the English vocabulary from the dialect of China's Guangdong Province (Cantonese). In other parts of ...
Chinese Dress Adornments
Food, clothing, shelter and tranportation are usually regarded the four most basic neccessities of life by Chinese people.In ancient society people lived in crude caves, naked. During the New Stone Age they invented bone needle and began to sew simple winter dress with leaves and animal skins. With ...
Colours and Clothing
ColoursIn Chinese culture there are three central colours: red, black and white.Red, being the colour of blood, symbolises the positive aspects of life such as happiness, wealth, fame etc. Red is always associated with good luck.Black, being the colour of faeces is associated with dirt, sin, evil, d ...