Korean Costume

Korean Costume

Korean costumes, Korean traditional customs, one of the national intangible cultural heritage.

Korean men's clothes are short, trousers are long and fat, and they also wear cantilevers. Some people also wear Taoist robes or Korean robes. Daopao was a common dress of scholar bureaucrats and scholars in the past, and later became a formal dress for men when they went out. Long robes can be worn as overcoats, which can be divided into single, clip and cotton.

Korean women's short dress and long skirt. The tunic has a long white belt with a bow under the right shoulder. Long skirts have long wrinkles. There are three kinds of skirts: wrapped skirt, bobbin skirt, long skirt, short skirt and apron. Short dress, called "zegaoli" in Korean, is a kind of clothes with oblique collar, no buckle, knotted with belt and covering only the chest; long skirt, called "Qima" in Korean, is loose and elegant with thin pleats at the waist. This kind of clothes are mostly made of silk, and the colors are very bright. Young women generally like to wear skirt, short skirt, old women often wear wrapped skirt, long skirt. In winter, the middle-aged and old women wear cotton (leather) jacket on top.

On June 7, 2008, Korean costumes were listed in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list with the approval of the State Council.

historical origin

Most of the Korean nationality in China was a minority nationality gradually formed during the period of the Northeast occupation, which was forced by Japan to migrate from the Korean Peninsula to the northeast as political immigrants. Clothing is a symbol of national culture. The Korean nationality is one of the ethnic minorities in China, mainly living in Yanbian Prefecture, Jilin Province. Its rich and colorful national costumes are the embodiment of the ideology and spiritual outlook of the Korean people. Its culture has a deep origin with the culture of the Korean Peninsula. Korean clothing presents the characteristics of plain, elegant and light, giving people a beautiful image and enriching the treasure house of clothing art.

At the end of the Three Kingdoms period, noble men wore wide trousers, short jackets, and belts around their waists, while noble women wore long skirts and hip length jackets. Later, influenced by Mongolia, women's coats were shortened and their skirts were raised to the waist. In the 15th century, women's skirts were lifted up again, tied under their armpits, and their tops were shortened, which was similar to the Korean clothing worn by women.

In the early days of Chinese Korean people, most of them lived in remote mountain villages, and their clothing materials were mainly self-made linen and homespun. At the beginning of the 20th century, with the infiltration of capitalist economy and the input of modern culture, woven fabrics, silk, satin and other fabrics began to be introduced, and the colors of clothing also became diversified. Especially since China's reform and opening up, economic and cultural exchanges with North Korea and South Korea have been strengthened, which has promoted the development of Korean clothing.