#hanyuansu

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Chinese hanfu | Hanyuansu inspired by ming dynasty style and lolita fashion by 听力菇

[redsugarx]

Styles from the Steppes: California Steppes Photoshoot (Esther)

Nav: Photoshoot Duo/Esther/Tara // Background & Influences // Styling Background // Macaron Design Background // Ferghana Design Background

"Call her briar rose or smth tho bc those 12 ft long braids kept picking up thorns on the hills" - Yulan

Pt. 2 of our AAPI series: Meet Esther, our model for the Macaron set! 🍬

A born-and-raised Bay Area resident of Chinese-Mongolian heritage aptly born in the Year of the Horse, Esther works in software engineering and enjoys baking, thrifting, and bouldering in her free time. We chose Esther for this look to help represent the bridge between Mongolian / northern steppe heritage and the Central Plains influences that shaped this style of hanfu.

Our Macaron set is named after a Chinese horse pun: “馬卡龍” is the transliteration of “macaron,” but literally reads “horse-card-dragon.” Keeping with the dessert theme, we designed this set in pastel confectionary colors and styled Esther with pastel eyeshadow shades to match! 🍭

Historically, this outfit draws from Northern Dynasty dress and the legacy of the “胡服騎射” policy — “wearing Hu (non-Han) clothing and shooting from horseback.” During the Warring States period, King Wuling of Zhao promoted the adoption of cavalry-friendly clothing elements associated with non-Han horse-riding peoples of the northern steppes, many connected to the lands of present-day Mongolia and Inner Mongolia. Over time, these styles became integrated into Hanfu. The pants in the Macacron set, for example, are a hybrid of hundred-pleat skirt and lantern pants, literally “百褶燈籠褲” or hundred-pleat lantern pants. The belt is made of imitation Songjin brocade, and features a pattern of golden horses galloping through waves, humorously titled “馬上有錢” 🧧

For styling, we gave Esther dramatic 12-foot-long twin carabiner braids, a modern nod to braided hairstyles long associated with many nomadic steppe cultures for beauty, identity, and practicality on horseback. And if you catch a glimpse of her nails, they’re hand-painted press-ons featuring horse artwork from a small studio in Inner Mongolia!

For AAPI Month, we’re celebrating the many ways heritage moves: across borders, across generations, and across the stories we choose to wear. 🐎

CREDITS Model: Esther Sue (ig: @/esthers_ue) Hair: 糖糖 Tangtang (me, ig: @/tang.tang.mm) Makeup: 玉藍 Yulan / Chlobalt Blue (ig: @/chlobaltblue) Photography & Editing: Hong Majaya (ig: @/hongwithcamera), Sylvia Gong (ig: @/sybiashoots) Horses: Giddyup Productions (ig: @/giddyup_productions) Weapons: Christabel Choi (ig: @/christabel_choi), Haydon Fu (ig: @/fuhaydon), Kevin Wong (@ktw-shu) Additional Assistance: Faye Sun Location: Sunol, California, USA Clothing: Cloud9 Hanfu 九雲閣 (ig: @cloud9hanfu), 馬卡龍 Macaron LNY26 Earrings: 金马贺岁 by 黛组学DaiStudio Braid extensions: 梦想成真假发 Shoes: 清欢阁 Nails: 蒙古马 by TanghesNail 指尖造物

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP shows that multiple aesthetics can be created by layering hanfu and accessories. (cr 司微)

[ziseviolet]

Ting Xun/听旬 Summer Collection

Ting Xun/听旬 is a Taobao shop that offers refined, understated modified hanfu, hanyuansu, and guofeng looks that are meant to blend seamlessly into the activities of daily life - such as working in an office, going on an outing, or attending a cocktail party. It provides many options for those who want to incorporate hanfu elements into their regular wardrobe.

[petit-piaf]

I fw 汉洋折衷 so hard, I’m sorry I’m that kinda silly fairy girl.

Apron and bonnet: Miss Point

Bijia (比甲 ) and Ao (袄): from Pu Ti Xue (菩提雪)

Mamianqun (马面裙) : Yuanshan Dai (远山黛原)

Shoes: unsure of shop I’m sorry!

Necklace: handmade

[ruanbaijie]

we celebrated chinese new year recently and I decided to change things up a little by running around to different places on the different days I had to dress up to take pictures!

eve: black xinzhongshi collared shirt + calf-length mamianqun

day 1: red song dynasty top + black and red rose mamianqun

day 4: black xinzhongshi mandarin-collared shirt with green tassel + black and green phoenix mamianqun (i was lowkey trying to channel slytherin vibes here cos yknow year of the snake lol)

lantern festival +1 (my company had our cny dinner on this day we missed the final day by a day hahahah): white short-sleeved cross-collared top + blue twin phoenixes mamianqun

the three Ts that are clearly my biggest weaknesses: tumblr, tattoos, and taobao

anyway did up a little video on tiktok (here) documenting my hanfu/ hanfu-inspired cny outfit evolution from 2019 to 2025 (the wonders that adult money and make up tutorials on xiaohongshu can do)! accidentally typo-ed 2019 (should be year of the 🐖) instead 🤡 side note: the song is a really cute and 火 cny song produced by a group in malaysia (our neighbours!) for the year of the snake

[the-woods-call-me]

( Teddy Bear Coord )

Koemi is a Fairyland Cupid Multihead on an Obitsu 24cm body

[princess-piaochong]

i draw my OCs once in a blue moon.

song dynasty-inspired setting, but i gave up on historical accuracy so all these are more hanyuansu than hanfu if it can even be called that.

Li Yinlan | Lai Yamlan | 黎荫兰 (purple)

Glasses technically only spread to China in the Ming dynasty, centuries after the Song, but given this is a setting where there was no Yuan dynasty equivalent and people have lasers and electrified swords, glasses probably aren't the most pressing matter in terms of historical accuracy.

All 3 women are from the south, specifically the (equivalent of the) Pearl River Delta i.e. Guangdong and Hong Kong among others. Some parts of their design allude to the history and culture of this area, including the Baiyue and their successors. For Yinlan, it's swords - the Yue were known for their swords, even now through artifacts such as the sword of Goujian, and stories such as that of the swordswoman Yuenü.

Primarily purple/lilac/blue colour palette to allude to her connection with the ocean.

Her hair is tied in double buns, albeit with a bit left over. Besides unintentionally looking like Sailor Moon, this alludes to her maybe not being the most mature person despite her genius; double buns were primarily worn by girls below the age of 15, and till this day still are an easy way to visually indicate youth and innocence in historical dramas. For reference, Yinlan keeps the hairstyle well into her 20s.

Wu Luxin | Ng Loukyan | 吴鹿欣 (red)

A very masculine, rough, almost gangster-esque woman. Basically she's a tough butch according to Song dynasty standards, wearing more masculine colours and having a more simple hairstyle.

Tattoos were considered barbaric in dynastic China (and there is still a stigma against them even to this day), and were associated with the southerner Yue tribes. Of which they're all descendants of. However, there were also many heroes in culture who were famously tattooed, such as the general Yue Fei.

Ouyang Qinghui | Auyeong Qingwai | 欧阳青慧 (green)

Qinghui is very green, while Luxin is very red. These two colours tend to indicate feminity and masculinity respectively - Qinghui is the soft femme, Luxin is her brave butch girlfriend.