Chinese traditional garments reproduced on anime costumes. Learn the unique artistic and cultural elements from the traditional costumes and applied them to anime costumes design, is a significant feature of China's cartoon clothing design. The animation works with a historical theme or classic-style, mostly based on traditional dress style. Han Dynasty’s Kuanbo long-sleeved, Tang Dynasty’s Hu Dress, Song Dynasty’s Beizi, and Qing Dynasty’s cheongsam, etc., all of them are unique Chinese traditional costumes styling.
In the creation of "Proud generals" , a large number of elements are borrowed from traditional Chinese opera costumes, character modeling use Peking Opera facial makeup and Peking Opera costumes, the general’s image shape has exaggerated and simplicity of treatment, this demonstrates his mighty, confident, stubborn overall image and personality traits. Another example is the three-dimensional full-length animations "Qin moon". It is a masterpiece launched specially for home and abroad, for all ages legendary martial arts, it once again leads the audience into the magnificent and colorful world of ancient China. This cartoon used a lot of elements of traditional Chinese costumes during the Qin Dynasty, such as the Qin Dynasty fashion styling elements--robes, it conveys the comic characters background of the times, costume design permeated with a deep sense of the style of the Qin and Han Garments.
Long history of Chinese civilization for thousands of years, there are many myths and legends, historical events, folk tales, fables and other traditional fiction stories in Chinese history. These stories provide a broad space and material source of inspiration for the animation; also provide fertile ground for cultural rise of Chinese animation. In the process of Chinese animation industry going to the world, this historical and cultural heritage will become the most valuable asset; they are an inexhaustible source of power and creative to animation. In addition, the unique Chinese way of thinking, values, spirit of the times, provide a complex cultural destination to the animation industry, it the spiritual home of the animation industry. The traditional national culture in China animation consumes major act as aesthetic, decorative, publicity and signs, etc.. National culture can not only decorative animation costumes, but also can make up for the lack of style and color aspects.