Traditional Chinese Uniform

China is among the four ancient civilized countries in the world, and its enchanting cultural system has been formed over a period in excess of 5,000 years, of which the traditional Chinese clothes have been an enormously important part as they have reflected the great changes in different historical stages of ancient China's economy, politics and culture.


Many people ( including Chinese ) would mistake the Qi Pao as a typical Chinese traditional clothes:

Actually, Qi Pao cannot be a representative of traditional Chinese clothes, because it derived from Mongolian clothes in Qing Dynasty, the ruler of Qing Dynasty came from Man Zu who were not regarded as orthodox Chinese people.


In terms of orthodox, most Chinese people would take Tang clothes as a classical Chinese clothes, because Tang dynasty was a golden age for the development of clothes (both in design and style) due to political stability and economic prosperity, which saw the unprecedented interaction between the Han culture and the culture alien to Chinese borders.  Chinese people feel proud of that era:

Han dynasty is also a giant nation before Tang. Hanfu features a loose yi with wide sleeves and an open-crotch shang.

Zhongshan suit was designed by Sun Zhongshan (or Sun Yat-sen) by combining the Western-style suit and Chinese clothes, which has become extremely popular among the Chinese people since its inception, especially during the Republic of China (1911-1949), and it features four pockets, five bigger central buttons in the front and three smaller cuff-buttons on either sleeve.