#tang dynasty hanfu

[kitsunebishake]

a pair of quick sketches for two friends because I am insufferable and won't accept money without giving people something in exchange

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[imfromthemiddlekingdom]

Man do I have feelings about Valinor elves in Hanfu. I design them and I make them to sell and I can just envision how well some of the Finweans would carry them. Like, 唐装 (tang dynasty styled) on idril??? Or on Turgon??? Or on Miriel??? Gods I’ve been designing some lately with Aredhel in mind and oh lord, it is going to be one of my best works.

[naomiwielant]

Gone with the rain mania continues...(and will go on for a long time 'cause I'm shipping this drama VERY HARD)

I started watching this drama because of the cute mv showing Moxi & WJG. I was really shipping them when I started this drama (God, I know better now).

Then fangirl hysteria started when we got more Moxi & Chen Wende moments...

Now that the drama is finished (and they really pampered us with a remaining 15 minutes of Moxi & Chen Wende cuteness (and yesss we got another kisss as welll), I give Xiao Wu some thoughtful consideration as well (probably the most likable character of all). Am I the only one (please don't tell me I'm really the only one) who thinks they should create a spin-off/side story and make him end up with a like-minded girl that has good manners and who is well versed in poetry? I'm really falling in love with this character! Is it because I got too invested with the novel, do I feel the urge to write some fanfiction or is it just due to a lack of sleep (since I'm binging this drama everyday till 3 am and I still can't let it go)?

DAMN I love that this drama has to many handsome ML's to choose from...

[xzyumi]

tang dynasty miku

[cnladies]

LIU SHISHI 刘诗诗 in Tang Dynasty hanfu 『 PHOTOSHOOT2 』 | 2024 Spring Festival Gala - CCTV

Liu Shishi: more photos here 2024 Spring Festival Gala: more photos here

[naomiwielant]

Tang dynasty aesthetic

[Hanfu · 漢服]Chinese Traditional Clothing Hanfu in different periods of the Tang Dynasty BY Artist: @末春 & 左丘萌 in Book《 中国妆束-大唐女儿行 /China Fashion》 

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“中国妆束-大唐女儿行” attempts to re-interpret the real fashion of women’s make-up at that time with the view of the Tang Dynasty people based on the Tang Dynasty cultural relics found in archaeological excavations and compared with the records in handed down historical materials or unearthed documents.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ 清华大学出版社; 第1版 (July 1, 2020)

Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2020

Language ‏ : ‎ Chinese

Amazon: 中国妆束：大唐女儿行 (Chinese Edition) Kindle Edition

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[hanfugallery]

chinese hanfu in tang style by 青泠谷

[prettiest-liarr]

i absolutely LOVE seeing traditional/folk clothing from different countries/regions of the world so here r a few of my favorite folk clothes and their country/region :)

top left: hungary traditional folk clothing

top right: traditional aspara dancer from cambodia

bottom left: chinese hanfu inspired from (i believe) the tang dynasty

bottom right: caucus region (specifically armenia, i believe) traditional clothing

[naomiwielant]

More Gone with the Rain madnesssssssssssssssssssss...

I’m Bai Moxi, a girl who loves to dream. Whether I can realize my lifelong dream, I don’t know yet. But I’m the leading role of this play. A leading role won’t live a terrible life, right?

Gone with the Rain (2023) 1.01

[niteshade925]

April 13, Xi'an, China, Shaanxi Archaeology Museum/陕西考古博物馆 (Part 5 - Tang dynasty, Song dynasty, and later):

Happy Mid-Autumn to everyone!

First up is again an undisputed star of the museum, the gold crown of Li Zhui/李倕. Li Zhui was the 5th generation descendant of Li Yuan/李渊, aka Emperor Gaozong of Tang, the first emperor of Tang dynasty (618 - 907 AD). It's speculated that this crown was what the Tang-era term "轻金冠" (lit. "light gold crown") was referring to. The crown itself wasn't just gold, however, it also had parts of silver, copper, and iron, decorated with pearls, mother of pearl, agate, turquoise, rubies, amber, ivory, and glass.

And it wasn't just a crown either. There were other pieces that were part of her outfit:

Various Tang-era gold and silver thread embroidery pieces found in the crypt of Famen Temple/法门寺, the plaque is visible in many of these so I won't be naming them all. There's a saying among Chinese archaeologists: "dry things last a thousand years, wet things last ten-thousand years, half-wet half-dry things last half a year" ("干千年，湿万年，不干不湿就半年"). This refers to the conditions the artifacts/remains were in over time, stable conditions usually preserve artifacts and remains better than changing conditions. Fabric-based artifacts are notoriously hard to preserve, especially in Xi'an's "half-wet half-dry" climate, so these are a rare sight:

Note that the bird and flower design on the right is actually not an embroidery, but designs woven straight into the fabric:

The gold threads used in these embroideries were made by wrapping long strips of gold foil around thread through the turning of these hook-shaped tools.

The gold threads produced from the above process were mainly used in two ways, either woven into the fabric (top), or embroidered onto fabric (bottom). The kind of embroidery here is called cujinxiu/蹙金绣, which uses gold threads and a technique that is similar to couching

Models of the microscopic structure of different types of silk fabric found in Famen Temple. In common usage today, the term sha/纱 often refers to light, almost see-through polyester fabrics, but in the past this term refers exclusively to a type of light silk fabric. However, the other ones listed here (ling/绫, luo/罗, juan/绢, jin/锦) almost always refer to silk fabrics.

Different types of motifs/patterns found on artifacts throughout time. Left is the evolution of juancaowen/卷草纹 ("curled plant motif") from Tang dynasty to Jin dynasty (1115 - 1234). Right is the evolution of lianhuawen/莲花纹 ("lotus flower motif") from Northern Song dynasty (960 - 1127) to Yuan dynasty (1206 - 1368).

Left: evolution of juhuawen/菊花纹 ("chrysanthemum flower motif") from Tang dynasty to Yuan dynasty. Right: evolution of mudanwen/牡丹纹 ("moutan peony motif") from Tang dynasty to Yuan dynasty, and the evolution of youyuwen/游鱼纹 ("swimming fish motif") from Northern Song dynasty to Yuan dynasty.

This is another one of my personal favorites, a Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644) bronze vessel with cloisonné enamel (called 掐丝珐琅 or jingtailan/景泰蓝 in Chinese). This type of vessel is called a gui/簋.

Song-era green-glazed porcelain from Yaozhou Kiln Site (耀州窑), so it's called yaoci/耀瓷 for short. This particular style is made by carving designs onto the piece before glazing and firing. I have attempted something similar when I took that wheelthrowing class years ago, but I failed lol

A Northern Song-era stone dui/敦 from the tomb of Lü Dalin/吕大临. The calligraphy here is in kaishu/楷书 script.

Also from the tomb of Lü Dalin, the left is a wine flagon with a dedicated holder used to warm the entire vessel along with the wine inside. The right is a incense burner with a swastika on top. Note that swastikas are very common in Chinese Buddhism, and is taken to mean "myriad" or "infinity" (the swastika is pronounced wan/萬, which literally means "ten-thousand", the figurative way of saying "infinity" in Chinese).

The process of making tea in Song dynasty, called diancha/点茶, which generally involves these steps: grinding the tea into a powder, sifting the tea powder, putting tea powder into a tea cup, pouring in hot water, and whisking the tea with a chaxian/茶筅 to create a light foam before drinking. In Song dynasty, the literati would hold contests among themselves to see who could make the perfect tea using the diancha method. This complex and time/effort consuming method was gradually phased out within China by the time of Ming dynasty, but deeply influenced Japanese tea making methods.

Left: a small porcelain piece depicting a mother lion and cub. The Chinese depiction of lions, called shi/狮, largely comes from a combination of the mythological suanni/狻猊, and the rare real lions that were given to China as gifts in the past. Right: a pottery dragon from Yuan dynasty, if I remembered correctly.

Also the previous part on Han dynasty (202 BC - 220 AD) artifacts was getting way too long, so I put these two pictures here at the end. In ancient China, many round coins had a square hole in the middle, and these holes were used to string the coins up for easier storage and counting. Such strings of coins are called minqian/缗钱, and this is why the quantifier for coins in ancient China is usually chuan/串, guan/贯, or diao/吊. In usage, chuan is not a strict quantifier, but 1 guan or diao = 1000 coins.

A modern recreation of a Han-era painted lacquer box, this red pattern on black background look is very characteristic of Han-era painted lacquerware:

Painted pottery statue of a Buddhist deva:

The painted wall murals of a Yuan dynasty tomb, viewed from below:

And this concludes the posts for Shaanxi Archaeology Museum! The next museum (also the last one) will be Shaanxi History Museum, specifically the new Qin-Han dynasties museum.

[cnladies]

LIU SHISHI 刘诗诗 in Tang Dynasty hanfu 『 PHOTOSHOOT1 』 | 2024 Spring Festival Gala - CCTV

Liu Shishi: more photos here 2024 Spring Festival Gala: more photos here

[chinesehanfu]

[China History]How were “luxury toiletries” made and created in ancient China 1,250 years ago?［Eng Sub］

This episode is set in the second year of the Tang Dynasty Tianbao era (743 AD), during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. It tells the story of a maidservant of the emperor's beloved concubine, Mei Fei 梅妃 (also known as Jiang Caiping/江采萍), who created the "Dendrobium Pearl Bath Bean/石斛珍珠澡豆" that Mei Fei/梅妃 had developed. According to the "Beiji Qianjin Yaofang《备急千金要方》" (Essential Formulas Worth a Thousand in Gold for Emergencies) by Tang-dynasty physician Sun Simiao:

洗面药：猪胰（五具切细）、毕豆面（一升）、皂角（三挺）、栝蒌实、葳蕤、白茯苓、土瓜根（各五两）；上七味捣筛，将猪胰拌和，更捣令匀，每但取洗手面，白日白净如素。

【Translation】：

"Facial wash medicine: pig pancreas (cut into fine pieces), beanstalk powder (one sheng/升), Gleditsia sinensis Lam(three pieces), Trichosanthes real, flourishing, white Poria cocos, and five taels each of soil melon roots; mix the seven ingredients, grind and sift, then mix with the pig pancreas, and grind together. Use the resulting powder for washing hands and face, making them as white and smooth as porcelain during the day"

(Note: The video also incorporates a segment on the tribute pearls from Hepu, filmed with the process of "opening oysters and harvesting pearls," though the historical accuracy of the video may have some artistic liberties, so viewers should be mindful of this).

The recipe for the "Dendrobium Pearl Bath Bean/石斛珍珠澡豆" was highly sought after by the imperial concubines and princesses of the time, who affectionately referred to Mei Fei as "Hu Zhu Fu Ren/斛珠夫人" (Lady of Pearls). Not only was she skilled in traditional Chinese medicine, but Mei Fei was also a talented dancer. She was one of the eight great female talents in the Tang Dynasty, having choreographed the famous Tang court dance "Jinghong Dance/惊鸿舞" (Dance of the Scared Swan).

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🧚🏻‍Production & Model/Makeup：@曾嚼子

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[naomiwielant]

Tang dynasty aesthetic

qixiong shanqun by 纨绮汉服工作室

[newhanfu]

Tang Dynasty Hanfu Modeling

From Hanfu Photographer-Liu Qi

[rongzhi]

Women wearing Tang Dynasty hanfu modeled after the depictions of patrons in the mural art of the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang (敦煌莫高窟).

They are posing in front of the Longmen Grottos (龙门石窟) in Luoyang, Henan.