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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Tang Dynasty style wedding held in Beijing


The news reporter said this is a Han Dynasty style wedding, but actually this is a Tang Dynasty wedding. Because the bride wore a Gao Yao Ru Qun (高腰襦裙) which was popular in Tang Dynasty.




Nowadays, Chinese brides and grooms normally wear Chinese Cheungsams and Mandarin jackets, or western style suits, at wedding ceremonies. So newlyweds wearing Tang Dynasty style outfits to get married make for a really eye-catching sight.

A truly old fashioned wedding took place in Downtown Beijing on Monday. The newlyweds suited up in the type of ancient costumes worn by Chinese people during the Tang Dynasty, about two-thousand years ago.

The couple followed the procedures of a historic Chinese wedding, first by freeing captive fish, and then having the groom recite the wedding oath in traditional verse.

The bride also put her and the groom's hair into a sachet, a step which is very unique to a Han style wedding as well.

The groom said, "This wedding satisfies our love for traditional Han culture. I hope our move can help promote traditional Han culture."

The Tan Dynasty style wedding is a testament to the revival of traditional Chinese culture. There are now Han culture clubs throughout the country. Members avidly wear old style costumes and play traditional musical instruments. But the ancient costume wedding is quite a fresh phenomenon.



 P.S.
Gao Yao Ru Qun (高腰襦裙) means a kind of high waist skirt. It is a unique women's dress which was popular in the Sui and Tang  Dynasties. in ancient times, most women's jacket dresses skirt beam is notvery high, Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties period, and the emergence of a skirt around his waist the very high waist skirt, called the waist of some clothing in the history ofmulti-jacket skirt, according to the research it is nowgenerally called the chest-jacket skirt change (only the status quo). Chest-jacket skirt but be careful, in fact, chest-waistskirt and jacket jacket skirt are two different concepts, the above-mentioned [that is, "is the chest-waist jacket skirtjacket skirt," saying it] is just the status quo. Real sense, thehigh waist skirt jacket chest interpersonal line (that is, beltedposition) is in the chest, waist, between the lower chest andwaist between. The chest-jacket skirt above the waist line isin the chest, between the two is actually very gooddistinction. But the same point is chest and waist areavailable to pay or receive breasted.
This is a Gao Yao Ru Qun of Sui Dynasty.

And this is a Gao Yao Ru Qun of Tang Dynasty

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