How Hong Kong brides made this Chinese wedding dress their own
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For Hongkongers, a beautifully crafted kwan kwa, or traditional Chinese wedding dress, symbolises love, happiness and power. Red satin often provides the background for a rich embroidery of silver and gold threads, with each set taking three months to a year to complete. Wing Lung Embroidery in Hong Kong has been selling Chinese wedding gowns in Kowloon’s Shanghai Street for 50 years. Its owner, second-generation wedding seamstress Ng Lan Fa, has been running the family business for more than a decade. She explains why they only sell the traditional dragon and phoenix design and why the black kwan kwa is no longer in fashion.
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You need a community that remember and cherish its roots in order to appreciate this wedding dress and made it go mainstream. Too many regions is not able to escape the ravage of time and cultural erosion.
Sorry, it's pretty popular in China to have both traditional dress and western wedding dress.
Growing up, you appreciate the beauty of tradition more than before.
I've always wanted to don a long feng qun kwa if I were to get married...these stunning embodiments of history and blessings are so precious and I believe the world should strive to preserve as many aspects of enriching culture and traditions as possible.
I grew up with TVB dramas. Watching the kuan kwa tradition persists in Hong Kong gives me so much delight. 🥰🥰
Love the random old footage of Hong Kong throughout the vid.
Off topic, happy that the shop and camera person focused a little on the cat🖤
as someone whose bridal shopping now for a wedding in hong kong and bali 2024, this dress is gorgeous. I'll prob rent tho since it's only for 1 event and we also have to budget for 2 banquets+ceremony, 2 locations, 3 other wedding gowns, hotel for guests,etc.
I love the beautiful craftsmanship of these dresses.
Tradition and workmanship are relevant to the present. It should not be forgotten.
Such a shame the wedding dresses are not made in Hong Kong anymore as an English person married to a lovely Chinese husband i loved my Chinese wedding dress and it was made in Hong Kong and yes we are still married 45 years and blessed with beautiful daughter and son
Congrats ❤
It's really attractive wedding gown. I love it.
The cat 😍😍😍
beautiful dress!
Beautiful pattern
Preservation of dressmaking ❤❤❤
Amazing work!
Wow so beautiful and time consuming to make.
I love King of Kwa than the Queen one, and totally agree the traditional Kwan Kwa and Taobao products are difference, traditional Kwan Kwa hand embroidery with meticulous, they are beautiful than Taobao more and more
Fascinating and fun
Thank you so much for the great upload, big like
Lovely
I want one and use it for important occasions, here in Rome where I am based
Nowadays, peope tend to hire these dress, rather than buying it. As it is really expensive.
Love
Kama
Namaste
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Curti
Young chinese people are realizing you don't need an old white priest to get married but a girl who loves u🤔
🎶🍀🎉🎉
Will be nice for them to have the wedding dress for the period of Ming to represent most Hong Kong ethnicity of Han instead of the Qing who have been banned them from wearing their own traditional Hanfu costume .....Thats why the Han people who have let the Manchu know they can banned them from wearing their own Hanfu during their reigned and will never be able to get rid of their Hanfu costume wearing for their Han chinese funeral where you can be able viewed it in filmed during the 70 and 80 era .....
Why is their civilization so advanced?
If you can speak pronounce English correctly, you can speak pronounce Cantonese correctly.
Not I. I struggled to learn Cantonese and my pronunciation was awful. My friend who was teaching me, scolded me often 😂
I wish I could speak it now 😞 I've so many places I want to visit and so much food to experience! 🤤
I live in China. Sorry for the Covid!
Everything is miserable here but no one dares to complain.
Seriously if there is next life, I wish to be born in any other country, except China.
Everyone wishes to be born Indian 🤭
Imbecile.
Gman, I Don't think so. Eeew.
@@stephanieyee9784 🤭🤣 jealous of India are we 😉
I've always wanted to live in China. I had the opportunity to when I was 20 in 1980. I was so bad at pronouncing Cantonese and I thought I'd never catch on. Then my friend, whose family I would be working for in Hong Kong, told me I'd need to learn Mandarin too! I gave up and stayed in Canada, something I regret now.
Duplicate Copy of Japan & South Korean Dresses!!😮😮😮
Duplicate? A lot of East Asian similarities have their origins in China
Japanese and South Korean custom dresses were influenced by China over the thousand of years they were colonized by Chinese Empires.
Duplicate? The most ignorant comment of the day 😂
Do you mean your parents look like you?
China existed long before either Japan or Korea.
ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE WORK. 👍♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️