Fujin (headgear)

Fujin
Painting of Tang Xianzu with Fujin
Portrait of Song, Si-Yeol, wearing bokgeon, mid-Joseon
Chinese name
Chinese	幅巾
Literal meaning	Width of cloth
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Fújīn
Korean name
Hangul	복건
Hanja	幅巾
Literal meaning	Full-width hood
Transcriptions Revised Romanization Bokgeon

Fujin (Chinese: 幅巾; lit. 'Width of cloth') is a type of guanmao (冠帽), a male traditional headgear generally made from a black fabric in China and Korea.^[1] The fujin is a form of hood made on one width of cloth, from which its Chinese name derived from.^[1] It was usually worn with Shenyi in the Ming Dynasty. The fujin was later adopted in Joseon where it became known as bokgeon (Korean: 복건; Hanja: 幅巾) and became known as the 'hat of the Confucian scholars'.^[1] The fujin also influenced the development of other headwear such as the futou.^[2]