She realized that few of her acquaintances had heard of hanfu, and all the information she got about it came from Baidu Tieba and the website hanchc.com, where a movement to rejuvenate hanfu germinated.

The dress on which contemporary hanfu clothing is based appeared as long as 5,000 years ago and prevailed through different dynasties in Chinese history until the Manchu established the Qing Dynasty in 1644. The Qing regime banned the wearing of Han clothes, and for the masses the custom of dressing in such clothing gradually disappeared.

Four years after Wang came across the Baidu Tieba group, she attended a hair-pinning ceremony, a traditional rite that marks Han girls' passage into adulthood, at the Jinan Fuxue Confucius Temple, built during the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and restored as a tribute to Confucius in 2005.

Such activities have frequently been organized by hanfu aficionados in recent years to promote the traditional culture and clothes of Han people.