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No, Hanfu is the worlds newest COSPLAY\LARP! Its made up!
>No, Hanfu is the worlds newest COSPLAY\LARP! Its made up!
No, Hanfu is the worlds newest COSPLAY\LARP! Its made up!
>No, Hanfu is the worlds newest COSPLAY\LARP! Its made up!

Hanfu is fake as fuck and is a recent cosplay trend.

Long story short, some Chinese were upset with the ACTUAL TRADITIONAL CHINESE clothes that was selected for world leaders wear during the APEC meeting 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).

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.

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 drives many Chinese to (wrongly) claim they invented everything.