WEDDING DRESS |chinese traditional wedding dresses| vlog part 2

Traditional Chinese wedding dress is a collective term which refers to all the different forms and styles of traditional wedding attire worn by the Han Chinese when performing their marriage ceremony, including the traditional Chinese marriage. There are various forms of traditional Chinese wedding dress in the history of China.[1] Since the Zhou dynasty, there have national laws and rules which regulated the different categories of clothing and personal accessories; these regulations have created various categories of clothing attire, including the traditional wedding attire of the Chinese people.

Wearing red wedding dresses has been a Chinese wedding tradition since the Ming Dynasty over 650 years ago. In Chinese culture, the bride wears a red wedding dress such as a Qun Kwa or a cheongsam on her wedding day to celebrate the joy and happiness of the marriage.

The main color of Chinese wedding dress & decoration settings is bright red, the traditional and sacred color.  As you may know red is the most favored color by Chinese as it represents happiness, vigor, life and bright delighted mood in Chinese culture. To be used in Chinese weddings, red is also considered as a symbol of good fortune that drive evil spirits away. This is different than that in the west where the wedding color is dominated by pure white and black. The traditional Chinese wedding dress in northern Chinese usually is one piece frock named Qipao(旗袍), which is red mainly and embroidered with elaborate gold and silver design. Brides in Southern China prefer to wear two-piece dress named Qungua or QunKwa(裙褂), as they are otfen elaborately adorned with gold dragon and phoenix,so they are often called longfeng gua(龙凤褂) namely dragon phoenix coat in mordern China.