Editing Han Chinese (section)

=== Fashion ===
{{Main|Chinese clothing|Hanfu}}
[[File:Gu Hongzhong's Night Revels, Detail 1.jpg|thumb|A [[Song dynasty]] Chinese painting ''Night Revels of Han Xizai'' showing scholars in scholar's robes and musicians dressed in a [[Hanfu]] variant, 12th-century remake of a 10th-century original by [[Gu Hongzhong]].]]Han Chinese clothing has been shaped through its dynastic traditions as well as foreign influences.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Chinese Clothing: Costumes, Adornments and Culture (Arts of China) |last= Yang |first=Shaorong |publisher= Long River Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-59265-019-4 |page=3}}</ref> Han Chinese clothing showcases the traditional fashion sensibilities of Chinese clothing traditions and forms one of the major cultural facets of Chinese civilization.<ref name="Brown, 2006 79">{{Cite book |title=China, Japan, Korea: Culture and Customs |last= Brown |first=John |publisher= Createspace Independent Publishing |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-4196-4893-9 |page=79}}</ref> [[Hanfu]] comprises all traditional clothing classifications of the Han Chinese with a recorded history of more than three millennia until the end of the Ming dynasty. During the Qing dynasty, Hanfu was mostly replaced by the Manchu style until the dynasty's fall in 1911, yet Han women continued to wear clothing from Ming dynasty. Manchu and Han fashions of women's clothing coexisted during the Qing dynasty.<ref>{{Cite book|script-title=zh:中国古代服饰史|last1=Zhou |first1=Xibao |author-mask=Zhou Xibao (周锡保)|publisher=中国戏剧出版社|year=2002|page=449|isbn=978-7-104-00359-5}}</ref><ref name="Yang2004">{{cite book|author=Shaorong Yang|title=Traditional Chinese Clothing Costumes, Adornments & Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nx5JDiacrH4C&pg=PA7|year=2004|publisher=Long River Press|isbn=978-1-59265-019-4|page=7|quote=Men's clothing in the Qing Dynasty consisted for the most part of long silk gowns and the so-called "Mandarin" jacket, which perhaps achieved their greatest popularity during the latter Kangxi Period to the Yongzheng Period. For women's clothing, Manchu and Han systems of clothing coexisted.|access-date=13 October 2018|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726001213/https://books.google.com/books?id=nx5JDiacrH4C&pg=PA7|url-status=live}}</ref> Moreover, neither Taoist priests nor Buddhist monks were required to wear the queue by the Qing; they continued to wear their traditional hairstyles, completely shaved heads for Buddhist monks, and long hair in the traditional Chinese topknot for Taoist priests.<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward J.M. Rhoads|title=Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861–1928|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QiM2pF5PDR8C&pg=PA60|year=2000|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=978-0-295-98040-9|page=60}}</ref><ref name="Gerini1895">{{cite news |author=Gerolamo Emilio Gerini|title=Chŭlăkantamangala: Or, The Tonsure Ceremony as Performed in Siam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vstMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA11|year=1895|newspaper=[[The Bangkok Times]]|pages=11–|access-date=13 October 2018|archive-date=10 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110112359/https://books.google.com/books?id=vstMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA11|url-status=live}}</ref> During the Republic of China period, fashion styles and forms of traditional Qing costumes gradually changed, influenced by fashion sensibilities from the Western World resulting modern Han Chinese wearing Western style clothing as a part of everyday dress.<ref>Mei Hua, ''Chinese Clothing'', Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 133–34</ref><ref name="Brown, 2006 79" />

Han Chinese clothing has continued to play an influential role within the realm of traditional East Asian fashion as both the Japanese [[Kimono]] and the Korean [[Hanbok]] were influenced by Han Chinese clothing designs.<ref>{{Citation |title=Elizabeth LaCouture |journal=Journal of Design History |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages = 300–314 |doi=10.1093/jdh/epw042 |year=2017 |last=Lacouture |first=Elizabeth}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DaTpAAAAMAAJ |title=J. Liddell, The story of the kimono, EP Dutton New York, 1989 |isbn=978-0-525-24574-2 |last=Liddell |first=Jill |year=1989 |publisher=E.P. Dutton |access-date=21 May 2020 |archive-date=3 August 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803014911/https://books.google.com/books?id=DaTpAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Stevens|first=Rebecca|title=The kimono inspiration: art and art-to-wear in America |publisher=Pomegranate|pages=131–42|year=1996|isbn=978-0-87654-598-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Dalby |first=Liza |author-link=Liza Dalby |title= Kimono: Fashioning Culture |publisher=University of Washington Press |pages=25–32 |year=2001 |location=Washington |isbn=978-0-295-98155-0}}</ref><ref name="Evenson">{{cite encyclopedia|editor1=Annette Lynch|editor2=Mitchell D. Strauss|author=Sandra Lee Evenson|title=Hanfu Chinese robes|encyclopedia=Ethnic Dress in the United States A Cultural Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tiEvBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA135|date=2014|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-0-7591-2150-8|pages=135–36|access-date=14 September 2018|archive-date=3 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803020933/https://books.google.com/books?id=tiEvBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA135|url-status=live}}</ref>