Traditional Chinese marriage

Chinese Xiuhe bridal suit in Beijing, 2022 A bride poses beside carved white marble balustrades in Beijing in a Xiuhe suit: a high-collared red jacket over a long red skirt, both thick with gold embroidery, topped by a gilded floral headdress. The Xiuhe is a 21st-century bridal design modeled on the much older aoqun, a jacket worn over a skirt that Han Chinese brides wore in the Qing era. It is a good example of how a tradition keeps being remade.