Traditional Opera Costumes

Chinese Traditional Fashion
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4 Video Views·Jun 29, 2025
Today’s video documents the process of traditional opera costume production. It shows the different skills necessary for a costume maker to achieve a finished product, and how these techniques can be used for contemporary qipao (cheongsam) production.
Our Jiang Chunxin is a well-known figure in the field of costume drama.
For example, Mei Nanfang, Chen Yingqiu, Sun Huisheng and Shang Xiaoyun.
These are the four famous costumes.
I started to learn how to draw since 1961.
The design of the costume drama.
The pattern is drawn on the paper.
Someone specializes in embroidery.
The pattern is drawn on the paper.
Then the pattern is printed on the fabric.
After the fabric is printed, my husband is in charge of sending it out to be embroidered.
After the embroidery is done, we have to make the costume.
First, we need to make the pattern.
After making the pattern, we need to apply the glue.
After applying the glue, we need to trim the edges.
In this process, the most important thing is the nose.
The nose can determine the position of the dragon's pattern.
Second, it can express the brightness of the dragon's heart.
It is very bright.
Finally, we need to roll up the edges and trim the edges.
Finally, we need to trim the edges.
In this way, we can complete the process of making the costume.
I am 81 years old.
I started to embroider when I was 13.
The costume drama is easier than the costume of the dragon.
But the process of making it is also very complicated.
For example, we are now the emperor of the Kangxi Dynasty.
We have to make the costume of the emperor of the Kangxi Dynasty.
It took us 11 months to make the costume of the emperor of the Kangxi Dynasty.
There is a size of the costume.
The size of each costume has a rule.
After making the costume, we need to check the size, the pattern, and the color.
Finally, we need to iron the costume.
At that time, we didn't use the ironing machine.
We used the ironing machine.
The ironing machine is very important.
We can't burn the costume when we iron it.
Because the costume of the emperor of the Kangxi Dynasty is not good.
The costume of the emperor of the Kangxi Dynasty is not good.
So we need to iron the costume.
The president of the Xizhou Museum, Mr. Xie, said that traditional culture must be developed.
We have been doing this work last year and this year.
Mr. Xie's materials are required to make a book.
We have to go.
He has a reference material.
