Ruqun

Ruqun
A Chinese lady wearing an aoqun, a style of ruqun popular among Chinese women during the Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty.
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	襦裙
Simplified Chinese	襦裙
Literal meaning	Jacket and skirt
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin rúqún
Korean name
Hanja	襦裙
Transcriptions Revised Romanization yugun

Ruqun (Chinese: 襦裙;) is a set of attire in Hanfu which consists of a short jacket typically called ru (Chinese: 襦; pinyin: rú) worn under a long Chinese skirt called qun (Chinese: 裙; pinyin: qún).^[1] However, when use as a general term, ruqun can broadly describe a set of attire which consists of a separated upper garment and a wrap-around lower skirt, or yichang (Chinese: 衣裳; pinyin: yīcháng), in which yi (Chinese: 衣) means the "upper garment" and the chang (Chinese: 裳) means the "lower garment".^{[2][3]: 27 [4]} In a broad sense, ruqun can include the shanqun (Chinese: 衫裙) and aoqun (simplified Chinese: 袄裙; traditional Chinese: 襖裙) in its definition.^{[5]: 48–50 [6]: 47–50, 54 [4][7]}

As a set of attire, the ruqun was worn by both men and women;^{[2][5]: 48–50 [6]: 47–50, 54} it was however primarily worn by women.^[8] It is the traditional Hanfu for the Han Chinese women.^[9] The aoqun and/or ruqun is the most basic set of clothing of Han Chinese women in China and has been an established tradition for thousands of years.^{[6]: 47–50, 54} Various forms and style of Chinese trousers, referred broadly under the generic term ku, can also be worn under the ruqun.