Characteristic species of Chinese footwear - lightweight shoes made of cloth, hemp, straw, thick-soled laminated sized paper or fabric.
In different periods leather or fabric boots were widely used, and their soft outlines resembled stockings. During Manchurian period these boots were officially replaced by hard boots on thick white sole and beveled at the front. The most solemn of them were crowned with canopies of hanging threads of jade beads, cords and ribbons sometimes flowing to the ground. In the Middle Ages simple headbands of black gauze came into fashion and were eventually varnished as well.
Manchurians brought relatively simple headgear: conical and wicker for summer and round with steeply twisted fields for winter. On the top of the hat a knob was inserted and the color of hat knob denoted one's rank. Chinese, who were not official, wore black hemispherical knobs, consisting of a band and six wedges with a button on the top. The people wore white headbands, felt and wicker hats.
Etiquette of hats wearing differed from European: all rituals, as well as an expression of deference necessarily required a headdress wearing. Men's hairstyles always consisted of a host of long hair, fixed with a pin at the top of the head.
During Manchurian domination the invaders obliged the Chinese to shave the front of the head, and to queue the remaining hair. Braid became a symbol of national oppression, and all people's uprisings against the Manchurian government began with the braid cutting.
Women's hairstyles were also based on hair knot, at different periods fixed with pins on top of the head, then at the back or front. In the X - XII centuries green, blue, black spots with attached jewels were glued on the temples, forehead and cheeks.
In the period of Ming Dynasty (XIV - XVII centuries) hair knot was fixed on the top of head. Hair was cut on the temples at a straight angle and on the forehead at the straight line being highlighted with ink. Hairstyle was often decorated with complex structures of pearls and jade, sometimes with figure of phoenix holding long, flowing pendants in its beak.