Many countries around the world boast distinctive national costumes. Japan has the kimono, Scotland has the kilt, Germany has the lederhosen and the US has jeans. But what about China? While home to ...

Late this May, I met a friend of mine for a day out on the town. It was a reassuringly normal experience after months of COVID-19 stress: Just the two of us hanging out, grabbing lunch, and snapping ...

To say Hanfu is not new is an understatement. This traditional style of clothing – a robe or jacket paired with a skirt worn by the Han people of China - is 3,000 years old, but a new wave of young ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Li Doudou, dressed in "Hanfu", leaves an apartment block for a performance of the "guqin" traditional musical instrument, in Hebei ...

Dressed in long robes, a crowd of young people wander around pavilions and royal gardens, with their flowing sleeves and heavily embroidered skirts gently swaying in the breeze. They are not actors ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vogue has waded into an ongoing cultural dispute between Chinese and Korean netizens after posting a photo of a traditional dress ...

A student from the Confucius Institute of Belgrade poses in hanfu in the Serbian capital in September last year. [Xinhua] Serving as more than just fabric, the traditional Chinese hanfu continues to ...

On weekdays Hu Xin, 21, wears a dark blue suit with a red tie and a court pin on her collar for her job as a civil court clerk in southwest China’s Sichuan province. Only on weekends can she find ...

As spring arrived in April across Beijing, it wasn’t just the multitude of blooming flowers that caught the eye. In a phenomenon that is rapidly growing in popularity over the last two years, spring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo credit: Shiyin To say Hanfu is not new is an understatement. This traditional style of clothing – a robe or jacket paired ...