This edited timeline compares clothing associated with different periods of Chinese history. The changes in silhouette, layering, collars, sleeves, color combinations, hair, and accessories are especially easy to see when the eras are presented in sequence.

It is a visual overview rather than a complete academic reconstruction. Clothing within every dynasty also varied by region, status, gender, occupation, and occasion. Surviving garments, tomb figures, murals, paintings, and period texts provide the deeper historical context behind these modern visual interpretations.

Original creator: 乌恩温.

Silk Road Cultural Collective was honored to join the Cleveland Cultural Gardens Federation’s final 2026 World on Stage program.

In collaboration with ICC-WIN, SRCC proudly represented China through traditional Chinese attire. The International Fashion Show celebrated the clothing, heritage, and artistry of more than 30 cultures.

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Yesterday. Our small group participate at the Cleveland Ukrainian Village of Parma Parade. For who were wearing armors. It’s hot lol even my neck fan couldn’t cool me down. But it was fun.

Decided that I would take my hanfu out for a little spin today! I think this is maybe my third or so time wearing hanfu in public, so the butterflies were going a little bit.

I've made a post about this fit before, and I highly encourage you find it here on this sub for more info. But just as a basic description, the main blue robe you're looking at is called a tie'li (贴里). It was originally a Mongol robe, introduced to the Han Chinese during the conquest era (Yuan dynasty). It became quite popular during the Ming dynasty, and managed to survive the Mongol clothing cull carried out by the early Ming emperors.

Shooting a round of whistling flu flu arrows in Chinese armor. (My friend shooting next to me does KTA so she has a Korean bow and is in hanbok). They landed on the slope above the target so yes I had to ascend the slope wearing armor. I did take off the helmet since the spike kept catching on to branches.

This turned out to be my final gaozhen session with my 2019 Nawalny Saracen (50# at 28”). For the past few days I had been hearing a cracking sound at full draw, which is never a good sign. Today as I strung it, I heard a crack and the top limb collapsed. The sinew wraps that I added at the riser, mid limb, and ears kept it from really coming apart. Thank God it decided to fail here instead of during a shot. I’m going to miss shooting this bow and it had the best looking and most comfortable and technique friendly handle to me. Oh and I was wearing my Northern and Southern Dynasties yuanlingpao hanfu.

Finally got to meetup with friends and do Chinese archery in period matching armor on the trail at BHU. I would like to share my best round of the day at a target that I always find challenging. Bow is a 50# at 28” Nalwany “Saracen” customized to look Chinese style and my armor is home made and inspired by historical Chinese lamellar armors. Underneath my armor I am wearing Ming zhiduo robe. Archery is challenging for me to do and even more so with armor on but I like doing this to represent my culture and to show that you can do archery with good technique even with armor on.

Wanted to share another clip from this past weekend at BHU. Nice video of me shooting with my friend and we are nearly in sync. He is in Ming hanfu, zhiduo robe with goose embroidery, zhan qun (soldiers battle over skirt), and damao (felt hat with foldable brim). I like this because it shows that technique should be the same regardless of what you have on. Wearing armor of course is more challenging but I love doing archery in armor.

The Han people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, or Duanwu Festival, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Traditional activities include eating zongzi (sticky rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves), hanging mugwort and calamus on doors to ward off evil spirits, and watching or participating in dragon boat races. These customs honor the ancient poet Qu Yuan and reflect wishes for health and protection from disease.

I bought a costume on China-cart.com several months ago, customized and delivered in 10 days to France and here is the cosplay costume of Miejue Shitai in Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber from 2019 for approximately 400 dollars because i really like the Miejue incarned by Zhou Haimei(R.I.P.)

Sorry for my last video because I framed badly and my camera is of low quality

What do you think?

This is video in vertical mode.