In the new costume drama Where the Mask Ends (嫁金钗), Tian Xiwei (田曦薇) wears a Han-style look that has caught many viewers’ eyes. Most period shows fill hair with phoenixes, silk flowers, and long gold tassels. Her leaf ornaments are quieter. They look clean, soft, and easy to keep watching. Many people assume the crew […]
Why would a princess wear a peach on her head? In Tigers Sniff the Rose (尚公主), Meng Ziyi (孟子义) plays Mu Wanyao (暮晚摇), a royal woman whose peach-shaped crown catches the eye at once. It looks strange beside the familiar phoenix crowns and flower-hairpin crowns of many period dramas. The design is not a writer’s […]
Photos from Where the Mask Ends (嫁金钗) show Tian Xiwei (田曦薇) in a long robe whose hem curls and falls in loops. Fans quickly called it Quju (曲裾); some press notes said the first costume borrowed “classic elements of a Western Han deep robe.” The label spread fast. Yet a photo, a caption, and a […]
At Shanghai (上海) airport, Yang Mi (杨幂) wore a green-and-white look that many viewers first took for a simple modern top. A closer look revealed a light cross-collar shirt shaped by the Song dynasty. The piece can be closed like a soft V-neck blouse or opened like a short outer jacket, a detail that changes […]
Viewers of Where the Mask Ends (嫁金钗) keep pausing on the long bead chain hanging over Tian Xiwei’s chest. Some call it a modern accessory; others insist every Han lady wore one. The truth sits between those claims. Han tombs and museums do contain beaded neck ornaments, often single-strand or multi-strand pieces. The show’s extra-long, […]
Dress history has an awkward problem that its exhibitions rarely show: the same garment can be named three ways across three dynasties, and the same sleeve can be drawn convincingly at a shape the fabric could never hold. On 16 October, the 2026 International Symposium on Chinese Ethnic Costume Culture met in Beijing to argue […]
Steam does something to rice that no oven imitates. At the Zhuanqiao cake fair in Shanghai’s Minhang district, the smell inside the marquee is wet fir and hot sugar, and the queue for it forms at eight in the morning. The event, an annual Double Ninth folk-culture programme, ran from 16 to 18 October at […]
Autumn-winter 2026 collections in the Neo-Chinese category changed their specification sheets before they changed their patterns. The Mamianqun hem moved from ankle to mid-calf, the standing collar came down to three or four centimetres, and the Pankou left the placket as a detachable module. Read as styling, these look like taste. Read as production documents, […]
A leather bag is a poor place to start a lecture on the Central Plains. That, in short, is what one Chinese label learned in Paris. On 10 October, inside the M SPACE talk programme at Shanghai Fashion Week, a forum convened by Yicai gathered three brands from unrelated corners of the market, a bag […]
The chestnut sellers are back at the east gate, and the ridge behind them has started to turn. Beijing’s Xishan National Forest Park opened its fifteenth Red Leaf Culture Festival on 15 October, running to 15 November under a theme that pairs maple colour with Guofeng performance. The Guofeng and heritage-craft programme begins with an […]
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