Thread: Dressing up for festivals in China

Half the fun of any festive occasion is dressing up for it.
If you are in China during the Spring Festival, there’s nothing like wearing a traditional Chinese costume to get into the spirit of the celebration.
For women, it’s got to be a qipao (literally, “banner dress”). This was the traditional dress worn by women of the Manchu during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The qipao has survived many small stylistic changes, from the original loose fitting gown with a high neck and closed collar to today’s more form-fitted and sensual designs made from embroidered satin or silk.
For men, it’s the Tangzhuang the traditional Chinese dress. The tangzhuang consists of a pair of long loose trousers with embroidery at the bottom and a long loose jacket with embroidered buttons and sleeves and a high closed collar and neck.

I think you should dress like a Chinese, or I think it depends on what festival they're celebrating. You need to be just one of them .

Chinese clothing is the clothing, ancient and modern, worn by the Chinese people. It has varied by region and time, and is recorded by the artifacts and arts of Chinese culture.

Dynastic China

Traditional Chinese clothing is broadly referred to as hanfu with many variations such as traditional Chinese academic dress. Depending on one's status in society, each social class had a different sense of fashion. Most Chinese men wore Chinese black cotton shoes, but wealthy higher class people would wear tough black leather shoes for formal occasions. Very rich and wealthy men would wear very bright, beautiful silk shoes sometimes having leather on the inside. Women would wear bright, silk coated Lotus shoes under their bound feet. Male shoes were mostly less elaborate then women's.

I think it really depends on the location because most Chinese nowadays are modern and they only dressed up during special festivals like Chinese New Year and Spring Festival.