Traditional Chinese clothing hanfu finds new life

江苏 戚莉莉

汉服因社交媒体的普及和人们对传统文化的热爱，在年轻一代的推动下焕发新生。

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1 Dressed in long robes, a crowd of young people wander around gardens, with their flowing sleeves and heavily embroidered (绣花的)skirts gently swaying in the breeze.They are not actors on a movie set, but hanfu enthusiasts at a themed event in Beijing.

2 Benefiting from the growing popularity of social media and a craze for traditional culture, hanfu, a traditional style of clothing once worn by the Han people, has enjoyed a new life thanks to a new wave of young Chinese fans.

3 At first, people who wore hanfu in public were occasionally greeted with mockery,while more passers-by asked about their clothing style.“More young people are taking to wearing adapted hanfu as they believe a good way to preserve tradition is to adapt it to modern life,” says Liu.

4 Yang Kunning was born in the 1990s and works in public relations.She is fond of sharing her love for hanfu online.She opened an account on the video-sharing platform and posted videos featuring herself wearing the traditional attire.Thousands of comments and likes pour into her channel as viewers find her videos attractive and creative—blending traditional culture with modern dance movements.“Social media has made hanfu culture popular in China and abroad,” says Yang.“Traditional culture has no national or ethnic boundaries.”

5 Companies and factories also smell the massive potential in hanfu-related industries.Caoxian County, Heze City, East China's Shandong Province, is one of the major hanfu manufacturing centers, gathering over 2000 enterprises and promoting the increase of employment.Over 600 clothes-processing companies have their own designs with intellectual property rights.In addition to domestic clients, a number of companies in Caoxian County reported a rise in foreign orders this year.

Reading Check

Detail1.What contributes to a new life of hanfu?

A.Hanfu-themed events.

B.Youth's love for traditions.

C.Hanfu-related industries.

D.The popularity of social media.

Inference2.Which can best describe Yang's attempts to popularize hanfu?

A.Productive.

B.Academic.

C.Controversial.

D.Conservative.

Detail3.What benefit may hanfu-related industries bring about?

A.Improving traditional designs.

B.Protecting intellectual property rights.

C.Creating more job opportunities.

D.Attracting foreign investment in China.

Inference4.In which column is this text likely to appear?

A.Travel.B.Culture.C.Science.D.Amusement.

Language Study

Ⅰ.Difficult sentence in the text

Dressed in long robes, a crowd of young people wander around gardens, with their flowing sleeves and heavily embroidered skirts gently swaying in the breeze.身披长袍，一群年轻人在花园中漫步，他们飘逸的衣袖和精美的绣花衣摆随着微风轻轻摇曳。

【点石成金】本句中，Dressed in long robes 为过去分词短语作伴随状语；with their flowing...the breeze为“with+宾语+非谓语动词”构成的with的复合结构，在句中作伴随状语。

Ⅱ.Text-centered chunks

be dressed in 穿着……

enjoy a new life 迎来新生

craze for traditional culture 对传统文化的热爱

in public 公开地

adapt...to modern life 使……适应现代生活

thousands of comments and likes 成千上万的评论和点赞

blend traditional culture with modern dance movements 将传统文化与现代舞蹈动作相结合

foreign order 海外订单