Garment collars in hanfu are diverse and come in several shapes, including jiaoling, duijin, yuanling, liling, fangling, tanling. Some forms of collars were indigenous to China while others had been a
Jiaoling youren, Ming Dynasty
Jiaoling zuoren, Xiongnu leather robes, Han dynasty
Han woman wearing Jiaoling zuoren, Ming dynasty
Xianbei women wearing a zuoren robe, Northern Wei
Hanfu, also known as Hanzhuang or traditional Chinese clothing, are historical Chinese clothings worn by the majority Han Chinese people from at least the 2nd millennium BC to the mid-17th century AD
Garment collars in hanfu
…Garment collars in hanfu are diverse and come in several shapes, including jiaoling (cross-collars, overlapping collars at the front which closed on the right or left sides…
A Chinese woman wearing a reconstructed Aoqun, a popular style of female dress from the Ming dynasty
The Night Revels of Han Xizai, a Song-era painting after an original by Gu Hongzhong
Court musicians in Qixiong Ruqun; decorative stone relief, Five dynasties.
Wanli Emperor in Mianfu, late 16th century