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The order of wearing a man’s Tang hanfu suit

Futou (幞头, headscarf)

Round collar shirt

Ku (袴, pant)

Zao Xue (皂靴, boots)

Banbi (半臂)

Tang round collar robe (圆领袍)

Gedai (革带, belt)

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chinese hanfu by 栗夏鹿

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recreation of historical chinese fashion by 此画怎讲

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陆曼陀

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yuanling pao + banbi + yuanling shan by 襦一坊汉服工作室

The black yuanlingpao was made from 香云纱/xiāngyúnshā gambiered Guangdong silk.

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SANCAI GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF A HORSE

TANG DYNASTY

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chinese hanfu by 改名妞妞妞

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Hanfu Couple Photo

The Princess of Tang Dynasty

from: Ba Chong Ta (八重塔)

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Chinese artist 涂志伟 Tu Zhiwei

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This painting, Ladies with Flower Pins 簪花仕女图, traditionally attributed to the famous Tang Dynasty artist Zhou Fang 周昉 (about 730-800) is often used as an example of the High Tang fashion. Many portrayals of Yang Guifei in art and on tv are based on it.

However, recent researches consider it doubtful that Ladies with Flower Pins dates to the Tang Dynasty era:

The earliest mentions of this painting appear during the Song Dynasty. Back then it was believed that it was created after the fall of Tang. Only several hundred years later, during the Qing Dynasty, this painting was attributed to Zhou Fang and thus dated to the Tang Dynasty.

In recent years similar hair ornaments were unearthed in tombs of ladies of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (907-979) - a turbulent era between Tang and Song. Similar clothes and hairstyles appear on tomb figurines, and on murals in Dunhuang, dated to the same period:

There are no murals, figurines, or paintings created during the Tang Dynasty that portray similar fashions. 

During the restoration it was discovered that initially this painting was a folding screen, but later it was partially repainted and transformed into a single piece. This is another argument against Zhou Fang’s authorship since he didn’t paint folding screens.

The book 中国妆束: 大唐女儿行 (about Tang Dynasty female fashion) presumes that Ladies with Flower Pins was created in the Southern Tang state.  The Southern Tang shouldn’t be confused with THE Tang: the Tang Empire ended in 907, and the Southern Tang state existed in 937-976 during Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

For comparison, here are paintings that were undoubtedly created by Zhou Fang and show fashions of the so called High Tang period:

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