“Next year would be the 600th year of the Forbidden City, and to reveal the 600 years of history and secrets of the palace, the 2020 “Calendar of the Forbidden City” is themed around the buildings, cultural relics, people and anecdotes instead of the usual Chinese zodiac animals. More than 8700 rooms in the palace complex are grouped under 10 categories and 365 points are extracted for the compilation of the volume. What is there to see? What’s the wedding ceremony of an emperor like? How did the imperial concubines spend their days? How luxurious is the retirement house of Emperor Qianlong……2020 is the 600th year of the Forbidden City”
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On 25th May 2019, in the North-eastern China, Liaoning Province, in which is held at its capital at the Shenyang Palace Museum… promoting the event is the Industrial Museum of China, alsoChina National Textile and Apparel Council.. In which it was the first season partaking of the China’s Qipao Cultural Festival, in which it was the third season of the Shenyang International festival to be held at the Liaoning Province Capital…
During the Qipao Fashion Show, there was ten China international well known designers whom were show casing there collections during the event…. In which historically Shenyang is the birth place of the Qing Dynasty 1636-1912…. In which Qipao is termed for Qing Dynasty Clothing that the Manchu ethnic wore…… in which the Shenyang Palace Museum was an imperial palace towards two Qing Dynasty emperors. During the event it which was an eight day forums, with exhibitions also related workshops illustrating the birth place of the Old Capital of Cheongsam where the Qing Dynasty- Qipao was inspired from..
Before that Shanghai 1930’s Qipao-Cheongsam revolution, the Manchurian Cheongsam was the fashion of choice of the Qing Dynasty (1636-1912) throughout as it standardised that style during the dynasty.. Replacing the previous clothing standard Hanfu – Han Dynasty clothing style, in which also is form fitting towards the women’s silhouette but with a higher degree of freedom of flare of personal, individual style…
The Qing Dynasty Qipao- Cheongsam also have that sense of individual style but it’s more rigid, bold practicality uniformed for the occasion, in which each piece of clothing is hand crafted like, studied in this current Chinese made television production of “Story of Yanxi Palace” to the incredible sense of handcrafted detail of that era of Sixth Year of Qianlong… where the material hand crafted sewn with the necessary details and sewn methods of the that era with modern methods of creating television and movie wardrobe.. Each wardrobe clothing brings those extra layers of the character’s storyline – or multiple stories into that scene that the wardrobe creates represented that person’s individuality…
Empress Ula Nara Ruyi (乌拉那拉•如懿) 如懿傳 Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace- Qianlong Emperor (25 September 1711 – 7 February 1799)
When you watched through the various scenes of the two Qing Dynasty based television series that was broadcast this year of 2018, in which set in the middle of the Qing Dynasty period of 如懿傳Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace- Qianlong Emperor (25 September 1711 – 7 February 1799) the fourth Qing Dynasty Emperor in which the fifth followed in the series of 延禧攻略Story of Yanxi Palace Yongzheng Emperor (13 December 1678 – 8 October 1735) in which are the most watched series in the Asian Communities globally….. in which both storylines carried onward respectively of each other..
Among both series, there was one continuous uses of a timeless wardrobe accessory among many that story tells the scene is the umbrella, in which is an Chinese invention in which was constantly used in everyday life also beyond today, in which was constantly used in rainy, snowing scenes in如懿傳Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace also 延禧攻略Story of Yanxi Palacewithin, and outside of the palaces of the Forbidden City, During those time periods of Qing Dynasty and before…….
Chinese Traditional umbrellas are made out from forest bamboo’s found exploring to find which trunk is the best to craft out from. In which finding that best bamboo to craft out from is an art form to which Master Silk Umbrella craftsman Song Zhiming has been making Silk Umbrella for more than a few decade now.. In which he uses the finest silk obtained from his Home city Hangzhou also the Embroidery aswell to transplant craft fully onto the Bamboo framed umbrella in which is crafted to open the ribs with steel wires to join the bamboo frames together..
Chinese Traditional silk Umbrellas comes in two parts the bamboo, also the silk, embroidery silk that forms the artwork canopy shade of the Umbrella. The Bamboo is sourced from it natural environment in which grade is best to use to crafted out from.. With the traditional tools that been used for many thousands of years ago with modern tools to hand craft the details.. The secondary part is the Silk or with fine silk or embroidery. In which is bound by glue, proxy onto the bamboo canopy rib frame works then its’ dried out, traditionally in which this case a dried hot iron does the work. But in traditional methods a small pot of amberic coal that forms the iron helps to dry out the glue, binding the silk to the bamboo frame stronger, with additional frame work to strengthen the canopy.. in which does the applications of protectively sheltering from the rain, sunshine.. In which is the designated function of an elegant hand carried artwork that accessorize your wardrobe..
Traditionally hand crafting the Silk Bamboo Umbrellas is the Master Silk Umbrella craftsman Song Zhiming has been making Silk Umbrella for more than a few decade now.. In which he uses the finest silk obtained from his Home city Hangzhou.. in which he’s also the representative inheritor of China’s intangible cultural heritage in which his art works in creating hand Crafting West lake Silk Bamboo Umbrellas founded him Song Zhiming’s Xihu Silk Umbrella Skills Master Studio, in developing a factory studio to hand craft to catering towards international and local domestic fashion.. With the traditional embroidery silk, or the non-traditional silk with the same craftsmanship to cater for a modest tier market in which will gather more sales due that the frabic is rain proof than the traditional one in which decorative to shade out from sunlight…. The ones that are traditional canopies ones are rainproof is made out from a mixture of oil layered lacquer hemp paper interwoven so it can be used in rain…
During the week of 17th November 2018 across the Already Tomorrow In Hong Kong, from Hong Kong, Macau, Zhuhai Bridge is the Macau in which on that week that the MGM Theatre at MGM COTAI in which explored a Symposium which was tittle hosting “ living heritage to explore Traditional Culture”in which attached over five hundred people in traditional, ancient Chinese Culture also various art forms of intangible heritage… in which during the symposium there was various in-depth articles, talks in between various featured speakers and the audiences in which how to coexist Chinese Heritage merging with Modern creative innovation in transferring that concept towards the future generations from the past, present to the presently soon..
One of the various asspects of the symposium is the highly acclaimed watched Chinese made Qing Dynasty period drama” Story of the Yanxi Palace”series that’s attracted an international viewership attention is the Story life premise of Empress Xiaoyichun- 孝儀純皇后, Wei Yingluo, Consort Ling (令) in which she is the wife, consort of Qing Dynasty Qianlong Emperor – in which she is story played by Actress Wu Jinyan….. Started as an imperial seamstress towards becoming a mother to the future Emperor…
During the symposium the featured speakers, the guest of honoured explored the featured television series “Story of the Yanxi Palace” that features timeless handmade Qing Dynasty Qipao wardrobes… In which Ms Bi Hong, collector and expert in Qing Dynasty culture and fashion, Mr. Zhang Bin, Ms Emily Chan, spoken in very in depth of creative innovations of preserving that tailoring craftsmanship also integrating those ancient tailoring with innovative modern tailoring methods today in which was wardrobe tailored for the series.. In which the Symposium analysed the historically every aspects of elements symbolism of each piece of the wardrobe within exhibition that held in co-junction duration of the symposium ….
In which the collection of the symposium exhibition collection shown the tour continued with an exhibition of the exquisitely crafted costumes from the “Story of Yanxi Palace” which are on display for the first time ever in Macau. The Chinese couture includes costumes worn by the Emperor Qianlong, Consort Ling, Empress Fucha Rongyin and Consort Xian… From the wardrobe, towards the jewellery created for each piece of the characters storytelling allowing the view enticed back few hundred years ago towards wearable embroidery in which can be found today in a simpler form the modern Qipao which innovative revolutionised in 1930’s Shanghai…..
Cfensi.Wordpress.com source credit -天盛長歌 The Rise of Phoenixes 倪妮 Ni Ni – as Feng Zhiwei (凤知微)Wei Zhi (魏知)- with the television wardrobe with Tang Dynasty influences..
The intense television production is adapted from the Tiangui Guiyuan novel , That story telling in between to Phoenixes in which they become two conflicted lovers one from an exist dynasty Tiansheng also from its fallen Cheng Dynasty in which the two overcoming assortments of adversary throughout internal turmoil that lies within the Tiansheng imperial family, through the power struggles within, the corruption, in which the two conflicted lovers of the Fallen Cheng Dynasty Princess Feng Zhiwei (凤知微)Wei Zhi (魏知)- played by 倪妮 Ni Ni , also with the current Tiansheng dynasty sixth Prince- Prince of Chu- Ning Yi (宁弈)- Played by Chen Kun 陳坤……
天盛長歌 The Rise of Phoenixes – two conflicted lovers of the Fallen Cheng Dynasty Princess Feng Zhiwei (凤知微)Wei Zhi (魏知)- played by 倪妮 Ni Ni , also with the current Tiansheng dynasty sixth prince Ning Yi (宁弈)- Played by Chen Kun 陳坤……
Besides among its 天盛長歌 The Rise of Phoenixes television wardrobe is brilliantly impressive in which each wardrobe piece details the interpretation of the character it wears storytelling that scene in which it portrays, the production of the television wardrobe is intensely detail, in manufacturing of the garments in still using traditional techquie among with the modern sewing the elaborate Hanfu style era garments… in which the Garment wardrobe designer- Artistic team is inspired manage by William Chang…. With hundreds of hours handcrafting various characters wardrobes with incredible detail realism among that team followed assisted by the enormous wardrobe designing is Lu FengShan, Fang Sizhe…
Among with the incredible details is the handcrafted craftsmanship of jewellery crafted for the production from scratch in which to suit for the required character’s headwear fashioned to characters wardrobe storytelling..
