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Hanfu is fake as fuck and is a recent trend but guess why young Chinese made it up...

Long story short, some Chinese were upset with the "Manchu" clothes that was selected for world leaders wear during the APEC meeting in China back in 2001. The clothes in question is called the "magua" and has ties to back when China was under Manchu rule and this rubbed them the wrong way since so much of Chinese clothes and culture actually comes from Manchu's (yeah, China isn't the originators they like to convince ignorant westerners of).

The Manchus subjected the Han Chinese into a lot of humiliating clothes and hairstyle to mark them as subjects to the Qing (Manchu) Dynasty and this humiliation has not been forgotten to this day.

Thus some Chinese nationalists decided to recreate a 'modern take' on what they basically wished Chinese clothes looked like and recreated a bunch of traditions and rituals to go with it--aka, they are larping.

Basically, they are role playing a China that never existed but they wish did as a coping mechanism to assuage their shameful humiliation by the Manchus.

You can also blame the CCP for destroying China's history and culture during the "Cultural Revolution" for motivating these Chinese to engage in fantasy cosplay as they lost touch with their true past history and its caused a great deal of confusion in China as to what their actual history and customs are and where they come from. This is also what drives many Chinese to (wrongly) claim they invented everything.

Picrel is the Manchu clothes that ultimately kicked off the fake 'hanfu' movement in China.