I object let Hanfu(ancient Han Chinese clothing) being national clothing - Page 3 - Political Forum

Slartibartfas · 03-14-2007, 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by winter6126

hehe,I remember a famous movie "Titanic",Jack kiss Rose's hand in the movie too.so romantic.
in China,if one man kiss an unknown woman.the woman would give him a slam on his face and call him "rascal",or call police to take the man to police station.haha,China is a conservative country

Good to know

Its funny enough that kissing hands is a very conservative thing here. So our most conservative people will even the more be used to kissing hands

Kissing in a way I wrote already above is nothing insulting or rude. I mean its very easy to make out the difference between this kind of greeting and the serious version of a kiss. For example would no one ever kiss another woman than his girlfriend on the neck. (or his future girlfriend

)

Luke · 03-14-2007, 08:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slartibartfas

Thats new to me. In fact suits are specially designed to make also people with not so broad shoulders to look broader. Of course adopted to the real measurements. Not in an extremely exaggerating way.

Regarding your second argument, I am sorry I fear I cant follow you with it. In how far are Chinese more grey faced than Europeans, especially northern Europeans? If you are talking about the hair color, I have to point out that you do not have to wear a black suit.

It seems furthermore that the Japanese had no problems with suits. Not that I ever heard of it.

Therefore I repeat my question from above, are you skeptical towards suits due to cultural reasons or due to practical reasons? It seems to me the former is the case.

No, I am not against suits. Traditional clothes are very inconvenient for everyday life. Since suits are not designed for Asians, we need to design our own clothes style that is both adaptable and convenient. Before that, western suits are fine.

Regarding the hair color and suit color, white suits or other shallow colors are very hard to keep clean and very difficult to match....

Slartibartfas · 03-15-2007, 06:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Luke

No, I am not against suits. Traditional clothes are very inconvenient for everyday life. Since suits are not designed for Asians, we need to design our own clothes style that is both adaptable and convenient. Before that, western suits are fine.

Regarding the hair color and suit color, white suits or other shallow colors are very hard to keep clean and very difficult to match....

You do not have to wear white suits. (That would in fact look quite funny). Already grey ones would do the job. I you are more into real colours, there exist also suits with decent colors as well.

But you know I do not really understand you argument here. I am black haired and have a quite pale skin moreover I really dont have broad shoulders. That does not stop me to think that dark blue or black suits fit me very well.

I think its something about national pride, about uniqueness, why Chinese would want a cloth to replace suits.
Nothing wrong with that, you do not have to hide behind other arguments.