Chinese headwear have a long history. According to some scholars,
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
used to be called "the Kingdom of Headwear" by people due to its variety of colourful and artistic style of hair ornament.
There were various categories for headwear including (), (), (), (), and ().
Chinese people also wore
Chinese hairpins. Chinese women, in particular, like to use flowers (either natural or artificial) as hair decorations for centuries; they also wore
shubi in their hair and sometimes wore the
honggaitou
A (), also shortened to () and referred to as red veil in English, is a traditional red-coloured bridal veil worn by the Han Chinese brides to cover their faces on their wedding ceremony before their wedding night. The is worn along with a ...
on their weddings.
Types of Headwear for males
Types of headwear for females
See also
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Chinese hairpin
() (also known as ( or ), () or () for short) and (钗) are generic term for hairpin in China. (with the same character of ) is also the term used for hairpins of the Qin dynasty. The earliest form of Chinese hair stick was found in the Ne ...
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Hanfu
''Hanfu'' () is the traditional styles of clothing worn by the Han Chinese. There are several representative styles of ''hanfu'', such as the (an upper-body garment with a long outer skirt), the (an upper-body garment with a long underskirt ...
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Honggaitou
A (), also shortened to () and referred to as red veil in English, is a traditional red-coloured bridal veil worn by the Han Chinese brides to cover their faces on their wedding ceremony before their wedding night. The is worn along with a ...
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List of Hanfu
A list of Hanfu, the historical clothing of the Han Chinese, in category of different clothing style. This page also addresses provides a list of garments. Informal wear
Types include tops and bottoms, long skirt, and one-piece robes that wrap a ...
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Shubi - Chinese comb
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Tian-tsui {{Short description, Traditional Chinese feather art
Tian-tsui (Chinese traditional: 點翠, Chinese simplified: 点翠, pinyin: diǎncuì, "dotting with kingfishers") is a style of Chinese art featuring kingfisher feathers. For 2,000 years, the C ...
References
{{Types of Han Chinese clothing
Hanfu
Chinese headgear