#southern northern dynasties

[peekofhistory]

I don't often see this article of clothing depicted when discussing Hanfu, but this is a Liangdang (裲裆). It's essentially an early vest. Historians speculate that it was initially worn on the inside as an undergarment, then gradually people started wearing it on the outside as well. The size and shape of it also changed from being small and square-ish to long enough to reach knee-length.

I feel like this would be a fun and cute Hanfu outfit to throw together for a day out. Since it's usually worn with pants, it's easier to walk around. I think it's also a piece that can be incorporated into modern-day wear too, through some shorts on, a pair of sneakers, and you're good to go :D

(A friend suggested I include a comparison to other civilizations' history when discussing Chinese Dynasties. She said when her European friends taught her history, she found it easier to relate it to Chinese Dynasties since she was more familiar with that. Below the cut, there's a chart where I compiled Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, and British History into a timeline, hopefully it helps a little.)

[chinesehanfu]

[Hanfu・漢服]Chinese Northern and Southern Dynasties(386–589 AD)Traditional Hanfu

【Historical Artifacts Reference 】:

▶China Northern and Southern Dynastie(220-589) Male Pottery Figurine,Unearthed from the tomb of Xue Huaiji(薛怀吉) the Northern Wei Dynasty at Xisiya, Wanrong, Shanxi,China.

▶2.China Dunhuang Murals of the Western Wei Dynasty,<The King and Nobles>

▶3.China Dunhuang Murals Cave 257 of the Northern Wei Dynasty,<Noble Elder>

▶4.China Dunhuang Murals of the Western Wei Dynasty,<The king interrogates the robbers>

The robber was defeated and captured, and was stripped of his clothes (a few pieces of clothing were thrown on the ground); the king sat in the hall, and the ministers stood under the hall, interrogating.The robber kneeling in front of him; the robber was sentenced to have his eyes gouged out.

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Recreation Work by : @裝束复原 & @桑纈

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[tchai-castor]

This was an attempt at drawing a woman dressed in traditional clothing in an art nouveau style. The clothing is based on the northern and southern dynasties of China

[izscha]

Do you think Wuya ever changes up her hairstyle? I can't even imagine her in braids or buns or something.

Maybe when in her earlier days of being a young maiden/before wrecking havoc as the Heylin Witch, Wuya played around with her hair for some time

I experimented with some traditional Chinese hairstyles to see if she'd look good in any (and tbh I think she looks good in a bun hairstyle!)

[trisshawkeye]

For entirely unrelated fic research reasons, I stumbled upon this great academic book chapter on gift giving and associated letter writing in early medieval China including letters from Cao Cao and Lady Bian to the parents of Yang Xiu, letters from Cao Pi dissing the fruit of the Shu and Wu regions, and letters from the later Liang Dynasty on the qualities of oranges (making reference to previous Three Kingdoms writings while doing so). There's also a fun little story right at the end about the possible ways of interpreting a gift of cloves from Cao Cao to Zhuge Liang.

With much appreciation to the author for having the chapter publicly available on her academic website!

[lgbtlunaverse]

[starsilversword]

Ugh. Why is it so difficult to find info on men's clothing? 90% of the websites I visit are about women's clothing only. Sometimes with a very small paragraph or two on men's clothing. Ugh. Whyyyyyyy.

[blue-lock-rocky]

life update: i’m watching thousand autumns because im a geek who’s into the novel’s historical background

[chadlesbianjasontodd]

earthenware figure of horse with rider. northern wei dynasty, 386-534.

the british museum only notes that the figure was purchased from private collector george eumorfopoulos; it might have been originally taken from a tomb.

[cepheusgalaxy]

Is there somebody here who rlly likes Chinese History bc I'm really confused in the timeline here

[peekofhistory]

I researched for two hours about the knee coverings (Bixi) and then found out I was researching the wrong thing OTL 😭

The pleated half-sleeves are super cute. I love throwing it on with any Hanfu outfit from this period just to add some flair. Essentially people were trying to go for "flowing, floating, whimsical" so the long sleeves, the draping knee coverings, the trailing waist ties (didn't draw it in) was all to emphasize you're walking on air.

[chinesehanfu]

[Hanfu · 漢服]Chinese Northern and Southern dynasties(420-589 AD) Hanfu Photoshoots

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📸Photo：朱山尽_

💄 Makeup：@南夕叙 ​​​

👗Hanfu： @十九觅原创设计汉服

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[eagleoftheninth]

松果sir on Weibo

Reconstructed noble attire of the Xianbei people, an ancient nomadic culture from the steppes of what is now Mongolia and northern China. The Tuoba clan of the Xianbei controlled most of northern China during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period from the 4th to the 6th centuries CE, calling themselves the Northern Wei dynasty and overseeing a widespread fusion between Chinese and steppe cultures — as well as adopting Buddhism (then still mostly seen as a foreign faith associated with the Silk Road) as an official religion.

盥薇（破防版）on Xiaohongshu

(A/N: Xiānbēi is the modern Mandarin pronunciation of 鮮卑, a word whose pronunciation in Han/Early Middle Chinese was closer to what these people called themselves; according to UniMelb historian Hyun Jin Kim, the original name was probably pronounced something like Särbi.)

[angstandhappiness]

NEAT

historical chinese fashion for men by 老八捌

[panicinthestudio]

Bodhisattva, April 2, 2012

Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin), Northern Qi dynasty, c. 550-60, Shanxi Province, China, sandstone with pigments, 13-3/4 feet / 419.1 cm high (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Smarthistory

Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin), ca. 550–560

Northern Qi dynasty, China

Sandstone with pigment

H. 13 ft. 9 in. (419.1 cm); H. with base 14 ft. 9 in. (449.6 cm)

Large-scale sculptures of bodhisattvas wearing extraordinary jewelry epitomize stylistic and iconographic innovations in Chinese sculpture from the second half of the sixth century. The astonishing jeweled harness adorning this bodhisattva is made up of two long strands of pearl-like clusters and multifaceted beads. Some elements, such as the triangular pendants, have Chinese precedents. Others, such as the pearl cabochons, derive from Central Asian traditions. The appearance of such elaborately figural sculptures, which later became standard in Chinese Buddhist art, attests to a growing devotion to Avalokiteshvara in the second half of the sixth century. It is possible that the jewels refer to a passage in the Lotus Sutra in which the historical Buddha Shakyamuni and another bodhisattva extol Avalokiteshvara’s great compassion and presents him with a pearl necklace as a symbol of his benevolence. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

[ryin-silverfish]

how does rebirth and reincarnation work in Buddhism

do memories carry over and Can personality traits or characteristics also stay the same

or does being reborn erase everything and basically reboot a person

is everyone reincarnated or just some people and what causes rebirth

if you don’t want to explain it can you please reply with links to websites where I can find information on the topic

Disclaimer: Everything I write here is less Indian Buddhism, and more "sinicized Buddhist concepts", aka "Chinese adoptation of the ideas of karmic laws and reincarnation, with a bunch of tweaks".

-There are 6 paths of rebirth: Heavenly/Deva, Asura, Human, Beasts, Hungry Ghosts, Hell. In practice, because of unfamiliarity with the Hindu Asura ("wrathful demigods"), it often gets simplified into 5 paths instead.

-Based on one's karma (consequences of one's causes), one is reborn into one of these Paths after death. The first 3 are commonly seen as the "3 good paths", while the last 3 are the "3 bad paths".

-Technically, even being reborn as a celestial being does not free you from suffering, since, despite the incredibly long lifespan of celestials and the pleasures they enjoy, their stay there is still not infinite, and they'll be reborn into a lower path once their Good Deeds Bank runs out, so to speak.

-However, in lay practice, being reborn in the Heavenly path is often considered "Good enough".

-Similarly, in more doctrinal Buddhism, the concept of "non-being" and the lack of a permanent, eternal self is a big thing (where there's no continuation of the self between each life, memory-wise or personality-wise).

-Yet after its spread to China, it was adjusted to fit, and syncretized with existing beliefs about souls and ancestor worship, and honestly, folks pretty much assumed that there is a...soul thingy that gets reincarnated, and some sort of continuation exists between each life.

-In Northern-Southern dynasty and Tang legends, there are a lot of tales about people who remembered their past lives, or people who suffered misfortune/got a lawsuit from ghosts in the Underworld bc of bad things they did in another life.

-However, in the latter case, they often don't remember. It is kinda implied that reincarnation itself blurred/erased their memories, but never explicitly explained.

-The much later Ming-Qing addition of Mengpo and her amnesia soup could be seen as a "fix-it" to that question: people don't remember their past lives bc the amnesia soup is mandatory, and the few who remembered are folks who had found a way to avoid drinking it.

-Like all folklore stuff, it's far from universally adopted, and in Liaozhai, you can still see tales like Lian Xiang's, where the fox spirit in question died, reincarnated into a human body, and remembered her old ghostly rival-turned-best-friend upon seeing her again.

-In vernacular novels and tales about reincarnated immortals and celestial deities, like JTTS and JTTN, it's more common for the protagonists to remember their original self from start to finish, or recover their memories after being informed of that fact and settle on working their way back into their old position.

-As for "does everyone have to go through reincarnation?" Unless you are a Buddha, a Bodhisattva, or Arhat, technically yes.

-After Daoism adopted the Buddhist ideas of karma and reincarnation, there were also works that suggested, by attaining immortality, you wouldn't have to reincarnate again...

-But I personally saw that as more of a "immortality just means no natural death, not unkillable" situation——the immortal in question won't have to reincarnate bc they can no longer die of old age, but if sth comes along and kill them, or they got demoted by the Heavenly Emperor for breaking celestial laws, their soul will still re-enter the cycle.

-Lastly, what causes rebirth? Well...existing. As long as you are within the Realm of Desire and a being of the Six Paths, you are subjected to the cosmological cycle, and to Buddhists, the only way out is attaining enlightenment.