Costume in Qing Dynasty: Qizhuang

During the Qing dynasty, Manchu style clothing was only required for scholar-official elite such as the Eight Banners members and Han men serving as government officials.

When the Manchurians established the Qing dynasty, the authorities issued decrees asking Han Chinese men to wear Manchurian attire and shave their hair into pigtails. The resistances against the hair shaving policy were suppressed. Some Han civilian men also voluntarily adopted Manchu clothing like Changshanon their own free will. By the late Qing, not only officials and scholars, but a great many commoners as well, started to wear Manchu attire As a result, Ming dynasty style clothing was even retained in some places in China during the Xinhai Revolution.

Throughout the Qing dynasty Han women continued to wear clothing from Ming dynasty.[Neither Taoist priests nor Buddhist monks were required to wear the queue by the Qing; they continued to wear their traditional hairstyles, completely shaved heads for Buddhist monks, and long hair in the traditional Chinese topknot for Taoist priests.