“神仙姐姐”致力于汉服复兴

摘要：在大约两年以前，在中国的博客上龙佳言偶尔看了一个有关汉服的视频，但这件事激发了她生命里对汉服和汉服历史的热情。

About two years ago, Long Jiayan accidentally watched a video about hanfu, or Han clothing, on a micro blog in China. She didn't expect that it would inspire her life's passion to promote Han clothing and its history.

在大约两年以前，在中国的博客上龙佳言偶尔看了一个有关汉服的视频，但这件事激发了她生命里对汉服和汉服历史的热情。

Hanfu is the traditional dress of the ethnic Han people. However, few Han people wear it daily in present-day China. It can be seen occasionally in festivals, coming-of-age and religious ceremonies conducted by Taoist, Confucian and Buddhist monks

汉服是中国汉族的传统服饰，然而，很少的汉族人把她当作日常服饰来穿，穿汉服的人偶尔会在节日上，冠（笄）礼和道士、孔夫子和佛教的祭奠上看见。

It is often seen, however, in Chinese television serials and movies.

但是，汉服常常在中国电视剧和电影里出现。

"I absolutely fell in love with hanfu, including all of its connotations and cultural implications after watching the video," says the 24-year-old in Changsha, Hunan province.

“在看完视频以后我明显爱上了汉服，包括其制式的含义以及文化内涵。”这个24岁的女孩在长沙湖南省会这样说。

Long was so crazy about hanfu that she, who never learned sewing before, started to make an outfit only four days after she watched the video.

很长时间疯狂迷恋汉服的她，虽然完全没有学过缝纫，但是在看过视频后的四天，开始准备缝纫的工具。

"I searched for information about how to make hanfu and felt after my reading that it was not that difficult, so I just set to work on it," she recalls.

“我找了如何做汉服的信息，然后感到并不是很难，所以我开始着手做汉服，”她回忆说。

Long's baby was just 7 months old, so she could only make the clothes when the baby slept or when it was being cared by its grandmother.

龙佳言的孩子才7个月，所以她只能在孩子睡着的时间或者他被祖母照看的时间做汉服

But Long's idea didn't get any support from her family. "My mother-in-law said I had a 'mental disorder' and it was unnecessary and boring to do that," she says.

但是龙佳言的想法并没有得到家人的支持，“我的岳母说我一定是精神错乱了，做这些是不必要的而且一定很枯燥 。”

Long finished her first hanfu in only three days, even though she didn't have a sewing machine, and she wore it immediately.

即使没有一台缝纫机，在三天后龙佳言做出了她的第一件汉服，她马上穿上了这件汉服。

"Honestly, I don't know how I managed to keep that mental state then. I was fully at ease, though I had expected that people would look at me strangely," Long says.

“说实话，我不知道怎么保持这种精神状态，我感到很满足，但是我也预期到了别人会很奇怪的看着我，”龙佳言这样说。

Now Long wears hanfu at least half the time. Sometimes she also chooses to wear some modern items to go with her hanfu.

现在龙佳言至少有一半的时间都穿着汉服，有时她也会穿着有汉元素的衣服。

"When I wear hanfu on the street, some people even ask if I'm doing cosplay or wearing a costume rented from a photographic studio," she says.

“当我穿着汉服在街上的时候，一些人会问我是不是在Cosplay或者是在拍艺术照”，她说。

"But I was quite happy to hear that some children called me fairy sister," she says.

“但是孩子们喊我神仙姐姐的时候我感到十分高兴，”她说。

I'm the type of person who takes action. I spent all of my pocket money on the sewing machine and the cloth," Long says.

“我是那种马上采取行动的人，我花光了我口袋里所有的钱去买缝纫机和布料，”龙佳言说

Now Long has her workshop and has made several hundred hanfu, but learning how to stitch was not easy.

现在龙佳言有了她的工作室，做了几百件汉服，但是学习如何缝纫并不容易。

"What I can do is to turn to the pictures about hanfu and search for instructions some people post on the Internet. I bought some cheap cloth and tried to make hanfu with that," she says.

“我所做的就是找了一些汉服图片和一些人们贴在网上的简介，我买了一些便宜的布料然后尝试着做汉服，”她说。

Long has so far concentrated on the clothing's cut and form. "I plan to do myself print, dye and embroider on the clothes that I make. But that requires more effort as traditionally pictures are used on hanfu and some pictures cannot be used on some types of fabric," she says.

龙佳言一直以来关注汉服的裁剪和制式。“我计划在衣服上做自己的设计、印染、刺绣。但是这些需要更多的努力，当一些传统的图案用在汉服上的时候，这些图案不能被印在某些种类的纺织布料上，“她说。

In June last year, Long launched her online store. Many people have come to her workshop, tried her hanfu and taken pictures, but sales are low.

在去年七月，龙佳言在网上开了自己的商店，很多人去她的工作室，试穿她的汉服和看图片，但是生意不太好。

Long says she has been in debt of more than 10,000 yuan. Her suits mostly cost 300-400 yuan. "But many people still think they are expensive," Long says.

龙佳言说她一直以来有超过一万元的债务，她的汉服基本上在300-400元左右，“但是很多人仍然认为他们很贵，”龙说。

ometimes, she says, she has to spend more than one month browsing hundreds of webpages and looking into thousands of cloth types to find what she wants.

她说.有时她要花费一个月以上的时间浏览成百上千的网页和布料才能找到她想要的。

Long isn't alone in her dream to rejuvenate traditional Chinese culture through hanfu. At a festival where most people wore hanfu, she met Chen Jiaxin, who has launched various traditional ceremonies.

龙佳言并不是唯一一个有着通过汉服复兴汉族传统文化的人，在一个很多人都穿着汉服的节日上，她遇到了发起举办了不同传统庆典的陈佳鑫。

The two are now cooperating.

现在他们两个人正在合作。

Chen's activities need a lot of hanfu. I offer them the costumes they need so that they can make use of them to promote traditional culture," Long says.

“陈佳鑫的活动需要很多汉服，我给他们提供他们想要的服饰让他们能够用汉服去推动传统文化。”龙佳言说。