Pien Fu

A popular traditional Chinese garment is called Pien Fu. There were two components to this ancient Chinese ceremonial outfit. The other is a long tunic, while the first was a skirt. Each of the colors used to create this distinctive outfit had a particular meaning. For example, the colors green and red stood for prosperity and the season of summer. This clothing was worn with the pine - a cap with a cylindrical shape.

The upper garment, known as jiangshapao, was red and reached all the way to the knees. This was often worn over a red hongchang skirt that stretched all the way to the ankles. Wearing a qun under an upper garment was reserved for ceremonial events. The wearer wore a crimson bixi over the hongchang. An inner garment known as zhongdan was worn beneath the crimson outer garments. A yugui was held in the wearer's hands and was decorated with yupei, daxiaoshou - a ribbon-like adornment - and the dadai belt. The bian, also known as pibian, was a cylinder-shaped guan (headwear) that rounded out the ensemble.

The royal court donned this two-piece outfit as a ceremonial garment. When conducting official business or meeting with court officials, the emperors donned the bianfu, which was only second to the mianfu in the Zhou Dynasty.