Most guides to Hanfu hand the reader a glossary and stop there. The glossary is the easy part. What a reader actually needs is a check order: which feature to look at first, which features are secondary, and which single detail can date a garment once the family is settled. The four-part sequence below works […]
Shaanxi Ya’er’ai Industrial Group, one of the province’s largest Hanfu manufacturers, signed a lease of more than 2,000 square metres in the Chengjian Xinshidai tower on Dong Dajie, in Xi’an’s Beilin District, and registered a new subsidiary there, Shaanxi Jin Hantang Hanfu Makeup Co. The Beilin district government announced the move on 2 November through […]
Dinner theatre in China usually means one of two things: a hotel ballroom with a variety show, or a heritage town with a costumed photo set. Heyan Yunlan, inside a hot-spring resort in Jiashan county, Jiaxing, tries a third arrangement. Its menu is fixed, its cast is small, and the scripts are all local history, […]
Fifty couples married on the sky garden of the Hangzhou International Expo Centre on the morning of 1 November, all of them in the same Song-style wedding dress, with the Qiantang River behind them. The ceremony was organised by the Zhejiang Women’s Federation and ran through four rites: hand-washing, the lowering of the bride’s fan, […]
Hangzhou stages the 13th China Grand Canal Temple Fair from 12 to 15 November, and for the first time the programme spreads across eight waterside blocks instead of one. Entry is free; the canal boats are ticketed separately. If You Go Dates 12 to 15 November 2026, four days Venue Eight blocks along the Grand […]
About 12,000 track jackets closed with Pankou (盘扣) instead of a zip sold out in 27 minutes in North America, according to Adidas. The style carries a standing collar, a knotted front closure and the three stripes along the sleeve, and it was designed at the company’s Shanghai creative centre. Last year it was an […]
Nanjing’s Yunjin museum reopens in a new building on Jiangdong Middle Road in Jianye District on 10 November, and the reason to go is a single length of cloth. The 17-metre bolt of Ming-dynasty dragon-robe fabric that has anchored the collection since the 1980s will be shown along a curved wall at eye level, the […]
The 14th Xitang Hanfu Culture Week reaches its music day on 5 November, the sixth day of a nine-day run in the water town of Xitang, in Jiashan county, Zhejiang. Shangle, as the day is called, puts court-style ensembles into the covered lanes and along the canals after dark, and visitors are meant to find […]
A market pairing Yunnan’s dyeing, weaving and embroidery with Vietnamese ao dai and folk painting opened on 4 November inside the terminal at Kunming Changshui International Airport, in Yunnan. Arriving passengers walk into it before they reach the exit. Stalls Set Out by Sense: Eating, Smelling, Using, Playing The floor is divided into four rooms, […]
Inside the Guizhou Xiu Niang workshop in Majiang County, in Qiandongnan, Guizhou, computerised embroidery machines and hand stitchers share one production line. The machines run patterns in batches. The stitchers are finishing craft pieces against a Dubai order, and when the consignment ships it will go on display at Dubai International Airport. Machines and Hands […]
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