Hanbok Is Korean Dress; Hanfu Is Han Chinese Dress Hanbok is the traditional dress of Korea. Hanfu is the historical dress of the Han Chinese, worn across roughly three thousand years of dynastic change. The two names arrive in English as near-homophones, and that is a translation accident rather than a claim about the garments: […]
Jiayu county in Xianning, Hubei, began its seventh Jingchu Rural Culture and Tourism Festival on 6 November with a procession that filed out of Erqiao Park and turned along the ring road beside the lake. Three days of performances, markets and cooking contests follow at the park and three satellite sites. At a Glance Dates […]
Inside the Shanghai pavilion at the China International Import Expo, Jiang Manzong (江满宗) held up a Pankou and explained what it was: the knot made for the first edition of the expo, shaped as a magnolia, the city flower, and left on the table for visitors to try. Jiang is the fourth-generation inheritor of the […]
One hundred and eighty-seven objects from the Palace Museum in Beijing went on show at the Hong Kong Palace Museum on 4 November, arranged around a single idea: a year at the Qing court, told season by season. The exhibition, Qing Court in Four Seasons, fills Gallery 2, the largest room in the building, and […]
Five embroiderers from Chuxiong, in Yunnan, sat in a circle at the China International Import Expo on 6 November and worked in sequence: running stitch, insertion stitch, shuttle stitch, seed stitch, gold thread. A camellia took shape under the lights. What they were finishing was a limited edition made for the fair, a Calvin Klein […]
China’s apparel exports reached 120.7 billion US dollars in the first three quarters of 2026, up 4.8 percent year on year, with September alone rising 23.9 percent to mark a fourth consecutive month of relatively fast growth. At the 140th Canton Fair the category that drew the densest queue of overseas buyers was not basics. […]
The fourteenth Xitang Hanfu Culture Week closed in Xitang, an ancient water town in Jiashan, Zhejiang, after a main programme that opened on 31 October and three relayed theme days running from 2 to 5 November under the theme Fourteen Years of Rhythm, a Return to Xitang. The figures published around the event describe a […]
Shaoxing opens a three-day city walk through its old town from 14 to 16 November, with a stamp book, a spendable brass-style token and a schedule built around Lu You, the Southern Song poet whose family home sits in the Yuecheng District. Thousands of Hanfu wearers are expected to walk the route across the weekend. […]
The eleventh Guang’an Longan Pomelo Tourism and Culture Festival ran for two days in Guang’an District, Sichuan, from 7 to 8 November. Its daytime programme was built on orchards, a rural race and a pomelo contest; its evening programme put 25 families in Hanfu into a Song-style market with lanterns, and closed with molten iron […]
Nine women stand in a garden courtyard, all in red. Their coats share one cut, one length and one collar, and the gold pattern on each is different. Eight centuries on, that combination is the most useful thing in the picture. What the Beizi Is in This Scroll A straight-collared, open-front outer coat, slit at […]
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