As one of the Hanfu revivalists, I joined in the Vancouver Hanfu Culture Society in last year. We always have some activities to promote the culture of Hanfu. For example, we took part in the parade which was held in the Vancouver Chinatown on Feb. 2rd, 2014. Through these various activities, more are becoming aware of  and more people start to be interested in the traditional culture of Han ethnicity.  nationality. We believe that Hanfu will become well-known by more and more people because because it is a beautiful piece of clothing. thing.

There is a difference in meaning of nationality and ethnicity.  I am ethnically Chinese but of Amerian nationality.

The Revival Of Hanfu

The Hanfu movement is an unofficial national revival movement which is held organized by mainly young people.   (although there are some older people, most of them are young) ones. who are the Han Chinese. This movement is not just pure about dressing up, going with the some trend of the moment or exercising one’s individuality. The more important meaning main idea is to get to a stage where Hanfu becomes into an acceptable part of clothing that can be worn dress code without having the need to justify why it was worn and to to others for wearing it as well as be part of reviving cultural traditions.

Hanfu is the traditional costume of the Han Chinese, and it is representative of the traditional culture of the Han nationality, for thousand of years before it was displaced legally by the Manchu style of dressing.  so we The young wanted it to promote the traditional culture of Han nationality throughout wearing Hanfu by reviving it. Some Hanfu revivalists advocates suggested that Hanfu should be worn  Chinese to wear Hanfu for during holidays, weddings, birthday parties, and so on. Then there are others advice Han Chinese advocate that it should be worn wear Hanfu in everyday life, daily.  but it is impossible because people changed their habits of life, and everything is not like 400 years ago any more It is an uphill battle since people do not change their habits or return to the past of four hunred years easily.

In fact, there are also some people who oppose the Hanfu movement. The main reason is they think the revival leans too far in the direction of a narrow nationalism, is too nationalistic and that people it focuses on looks more than anything else content. Hanfu can only could represent the Han nationality, ethnicity and it couldn’t stand for cannot be representative for the other 55 nationalities fifty five minorities in China, although even though the Han ethinicity is made up of more than 91% of the nation's population.  nationality has the most of Chinese people. This also is one of the main reasons why the Chinese Central Government’s official Website portal used a portrait of a woman in Hanfu to represent the Han nationality Chinese on the introductory page of the 56 ethnic groups. but However, the Chinese Olympic Committee wisely rejected to the use of Hanfu for as the official clothing dress for the Chinese 2008 Summer Olympics. [Yes, the Hanfu is styled differently in different dynasties.  I believe the Tang style is the most daring and colorful.]