摘要：在大約兩年以前，在中國的博客上龍佳言偶爾看了一個有關漢服的視頻，但這件事激發了她生命里對漢服和漢服歷史的熱情。

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.

在大約兩年以前，在中國的博客上龍佳言偶爾看了一個有關漢服的視頻，但這件事激發了她生命里對漢服和漢服歷史的熱情。

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

漢服是中國漢族的傳統服飾，然而，很少的漢族人把她當作日常服飾來穿，穿漢服的人偶爾會在節日上，冠（笄）禮和道士、孔夫子和佛教的祭奠上看見。

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

但是，漢服常常在中國電視劇和電影里出現。

"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.

“在看完視頻以后我明顯愛上了漢服，包括其制式的含義以及文化內涵。”這個24歲的女孩在長沙湖南省會這樣說。

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.

很長時間瘋狂迷戀漢服的她，雖然完全沒有學過縫紉，但是在看過視頻后的四天，開始準備縫紉的工具。

"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.

“我找了如何做漢服的信息，然后感到并不是很難，所以我開始著手做漢服，”她回憶說。

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.

龍佳言的孩子才7個月，所以她只能在孩子睡著的時間或者他被祖母照看的時間做漢服

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.

但是龍佳言的想法并沒有得到家人的支持，“我的岳母說我一定是精神錯亂了，做這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.

即使沒有一臺縫紉機，在三天后龍佳言做出了她的第一件漢服，她馬上穿上了這件漢服。

"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.

“說實話，我不知道怎么保持這種精神狀態，我感到很滿足，但是我也預期到了別人會很奇怪的看著我，”龍佳言這樣說。

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

現在龍佳言至少有一半的時間都穿著漢服，有時她也會穿著有漢元素的衣服。

"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.

“當我穿著漢服在街上的時候，一些人會問我是不是在Cosplay或者是在拍藝術照”，她說。

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

“但是孩子們喊我神仙姐姐的時候我感到十分高興，”她說。

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.

“我是那種馬上采取行動的人，我花光了我口袋里所有的錢去買縫紉機和布料，”龍佳言說

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

現在龍佳言有了她的工作室，做了幾百件漢服，但是學習如何縫紉并不容易。

"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漢服圖片和一些人們貼在網上的簡介，我買了一些便宜的布料然后嘗試著做漢服，”她說。

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.

龍佳言一直以來關注漢服的裁剪和制式。“我計劃在衣服上做自己的設計、印染、刺繡。但是這些需要更多的努力，當一些傳統的圖案用在漢服上的時候，這些圖案不能被印在某些種類的紡織布料上，“她說。

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，龍佳言在網上開了自己的商店，很多人去她的工作室，試穿她的漢服和看圖片，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.

龍佳言說她一直以來有超過一萬元的債務，她的漢服基本上在300-400元左右，“但是很多人仍然認為他們很貴，”龍說。

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.

她說.有時她要花費一個月以上的時間瀏覽成百上千的網頁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.

龍佳言并不是唯一一個有著通過漢服復興漢族傳統文化的人，在一個很多人都穿著漢服的節日上，她遇到了發起舉辦了不同傳統慶典的陳佳鑫。

The two are now cooperating.

現在他們兩個人正在合作。

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.

“陳佳鑫的活動需要很多漢服，我給他們提供他們想要的服飾讓他們能夠用漢服去推動傳統文化。”龍佳言說。