In China, a tradition involves creating a child’s dress from begged cloth pieces to invoke blessings and protection, known as “Peh-kia-i.”
Variegated dress known as that of the “hundred families”.
Category: China
Traditional clothing from China. Chinese National Costumes
A Chinese woman of highest class.
The annexed Plate represents a female of the highest class in her finest habit.
Chinese wife with bound feet, 1891.
Chinese wife with bound feet, 1891.
Various opium pipes. Opium smocking in Shanghai 1899.
The native opium grown in China, is generally considered the most inferior, and the Indian opium, especially Malwa and Patna, the best.
China 1897. The dying coolie by Isabella Bird Bishop.
THE DYING COOLIE 1897.
Tien An Men parade. Chinese National Day 1954.
Chinese National Day. Tien An Men parade 1954. National Day, October 1- here in Pecking’s Tien An Men Square, Chairman Mao Tse-tung reviews the marching columns of the paraders. Source:… Read More
A Chinaman. Chinese Mandarin and the dog as a sign of dignity.
The dog is a sign of dignity both in China and Siam. It appears at the portrait VAN TA GIN in Barrow’s Travels in China wears on his breast.
Olunchun woman hunter under Chinese Communism 1950s.
An Olunchun hunts woman makes some purchases in a co-operative.
Chinese guys costumes. Types chinois.
Chinese guys costumes. Types chinois 1834. Gallery: Asian costumes by Auguste Wahlen. Manners, customs and costumes of all peoples of the world.
Chinese lady and her servant costumes.
Chinese lady and her servant costumes. Dame Chinoise et sa suivante, 1834. Gallery: Asian costumes by Auguste Wahlen. Manners, customs and costumes of all peoples of the world.