Zhang Ailing loved the qipao the most in her life, and the reason was for the equal rights of men and women

Zhang Ailing, who has loved the qipao all her life, wears her beloved qipao at the waist in the most widely circulated and classic photos, leaning upwards. She wrote in the Book of Changing Clothes: "After the Republic of the Five Nationalities, women across the country suddenly adopted the qipao in unison, not to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty's promotion of restoration, but because women deliberately imitated men. They were first influenced by Western culture and were intoxicated by the theory of equal rights for men and women, but the situation around them was too far from the ideal, and under shame and indignation, they rejected everything feminine and were eager to kill the root nature of women. Therefore, the chuxing qipao is strict and square, with a Puritan style. ” .

Wang Yuqing, the author of "Examination of Women's Robes in Past Dynasties", also agrees with this statement: "The qipao, which was popular for more than half a century, turned out to be a by-product of the new wave women's struggle for women's rights and equality."

Zhang Ailing herself's view of the color matching of the cheongsam is also quite fashionable and radical, she said, "Chinese xin learned the two rules of 'contrast' and 'harmony' from the West - contrast is red and green, harmony is green and green." As everyone knows, the conflict between the two different greens is very obvious; the more the two greens are just pushed a little, the more disturbing it is to see. Red-green control, there is a welcome irritation. The comparison of the ancients is not absolute, but a jagged control." This may have something to do with the fact that she was born into a classical family but received a modern education.

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At that time, the qipao in the fashion industry also became a symbol of women's liberation and bondage. Cuts that highlight women's figures, verdant fur decorations, and sometimes new foreign fabrics have become new elements of the cheongsam. The cheongsam of fashionable women on the beach has influenced the dressing trend of women across the country.

It should be said that the qipao is a clothing standard that is improved from the flag dress but flourished in the Republic of China and has been developed into a traditional costume represented by Chinese women. Influenced by the cutting style of Western clothing and the demand for women's liberation, many female intellectuals in the late Qing Dynasty wore men's clothing, hoping to break the inequality between men and women, and these trends of thought added together, so the qipao was born - a new costume with Chinese cultural spirit and Western-style clothing advantages, but not traditional Han women's clothing.

There are different theories about the origin of the qipao, some saying that "the original women wore short clothes in the Qing Dynasty, did not wear the qipao, the qipao began after the Republic of China", but the "Examination of the Robes of Women in Past Dynasties" believes that the robes worn by Chinese women go back to the Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang, Song, and Ming dynasties, and were not only worn by the flag women of the Qing Dynasty. It is believed that the qinu robe has an impact on the national flag robe, but does not believe that there is a direct inheritance relationship between the two, so it is not appropriate to think that the national flag robe is called the "flag" robe, and also advocates that the qipao be renamed "qipao".

The qipao was designated by the Republic of China as one of the national dresses in 1929.

After the founding of New China, the qipao was gradually revived in the 1980s and 1990s, and the qipao was designated by the State Council as the dress for female diplomats, and in various diplomatic occasions and some important meetings that can represent China, Chinese women wearing qipao has also become a representative and beautiful lens.