Meeting with HANFUSHE club參加紐約漢服社講座

         我於2020年10月參加了紐約漢服社的一次講座，講座開在曼哈頓的一個摩天大樓的會議室裏。這堂課清晰地告訴我漢服文化是什麽，和怎樣在中國大陸以外的地區發展的。

        會議有三個部分：講座、回答問題、互動環節。

        明亮小姐是紐約漢服社的社長、民族學碩士。一個三十歲左右的女子，她用幻燈片完成了一個很有條理的演講。

        她由自己的深藍色漢服叫什麽這個問題開場，答案是雲服。她關心每一個聽眾。她請每一個人簡短地介紹自己及對漢服的興趣。接著她展開自己的演講，一個關於漢服發展的大綱和重點服飾細節的介紹。

        在回答問題的環節中，明亮小姐反應很快。她總是能找出問題的關鍵並給出直接的回答。她是對自己專業有激情並深耕的內行人。

         參加漢服社講座的年輕人總共有十個，他們都對中華文化感到癡迷。他們是在紐約生活工作的年輕學生，職業人士。他們表達了對漢服活動的關心和自己熱愛漢服的故事。

         會議的主持人問相關問題，並準備了答題禮物。年輕人很了不起。他們中的一些人已經在新年時在紐約時代廣場完成了漢服跳舞的活動。年輕人很棒也很可愛。跟這些年輕人在一起我很自豪。他們是中國的希望。

        我喜歡和積極的年輕的男孩女孩一起分享漢服的知識。在兩小時裏，我像是在中國和許多著迷的朋友一起。雖然我覺得漢服社不是一個適合我的社團。我覺得年輕人選擇漢服更多的是愛美和角色扮演的需求，而我更願意深入了解漢唐朝的曆史知識和溫習中國文化。我沒有很多金錢和時間去專注於漢服服裝本身。我願意參加漢服的儀式祭拜和了解日其文化對國人日常生活的滲透。我願意參加清明節、寒食節、重陽節的漢服祭拜活動去紀念中國傳統。

        更多的我有身份認同的困難，我會有一些複雜的感情和立場來看待關於中美商戰，及香港人反中及政府的反抗。

        關於漢服有很多需要說的東西，關於中國人的身份和生活。這不是政治，是我們的身份和認同感。對我來說，這是有意思的一天。

                                               

         I took part in one of the interdiction lectures of HANFUSHE in New York, which was holding in a meeting office in a skyscraper in Manhattan in Oct.2019. The lecture and the meeting gave me a clear map about how the Hanfu culture developed in the countries outside China Mainland.

          The meeting include three parts：the introduction speech, the question answer period, and the dynamitic period.

         Ms.Mingliang ,the president of Hanfushe and a Master in Folklore study, a lady in her early 30s, made a well organized speech with a clear PPD.

        She began with a question about what was the name of her dark blue Hanfu, which turned out to be Yunfu. She was concerned about every audience. She invited everyone giving a short introduction for himself/herself about their interest on Hanfu. Then she set up her presentation, a whole guild line of HANFU development and detail-oriented introduction.

       During the question period, Ms.Mingliang was quick-responded, she always got the key point of the question and gave a straight answer. She was a young scholar who was totally addicted in her field.

        There were totally about ten young people who loved Hanfu and were fascinated in Chinese culture.  They were young professional or graduate students who studied in N.Y.

They showed their concern about the activities of HANFUSHE ,and expressed a lot of interesting story about their love for HANFU.

          The host of the meeting made some dynamic period by asking questions and a gift for a good answer. The young people they were amazing. Some of them had already done some HANFU dance in Times square on New Year Eve before.  The young people were amazing and lovely. I was proud to be with so many elegant and self-concerned young ones. They were Chinese’ hope.

       l liked the moment of sharing the understanding of Hanfu clothing knowledge with some young and active Chinese girls and boys. During the two hours, I was like being in China with some fascinating friends. While I still was clear that HANFUSHE  was not a club for me. I figured out the young people chose HANFU more as a way of playing or cosplay, while I preferred to know better about the Han dynasty and all Chinese culture. I did not have so many free money and time to focus on HANFU clothes. I preferred to take part in the ceremony with Hanfu and daily life it could be involved in. I would like to take part in the ceremony of Qingming Festival, Hanshi Festival, Chongyang Festival to memorize our Chinese tradition.

           Furthermore I felt a little embraced that I did not own a Chinese citizenship now. I had complicated feeling about the Chinese-America trading conflict, about the Hongkongese’s fight with the local government.

         There is a lot of thing which are needed to be talked about Hanfu, about our Chinese identity and life. It’s not a political stuff, it is our identity and status.It was an interesting day for me.