page_title: Vietnamese clothing
section_title: Bách Việt (Baiyue) period
hierarchical_section_title: Vietnamese clothing / History / Bách Việt (Baiyue) period
caption_attribution_description: English: An statue of a man, dating from State of Yue, located in the State Museum of Zhejiang province, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
context_page_description: Vietnamese clothing is the traditional style of clothing worn in Vietnam.
context_section_description: The Han Chinese referred to the various non-Han "barbarian" peoples of north Vietnam and southern China as "Yue" (Việt) or Baiyue, saying they possessed common habits like adapting to water, having their hair cropped short and tattooed. The Han also said their language was "animal shrieking" and that they lacked morals, modesty, civilization and culture.
  During the Vietnamese Trung sisters' rebellion (Khởi nghĩa Hai Bà Trưng - Đánh đuổi Tô Định) against the Han dynasty's First Chinese domination of Vietnam, the Han Chinese administrator of Jiaozhi (Vietnam), Sū Dìng (蘇定 Tô Định) only managed to escape to China and avoid being discovered by the Vietnamese rebels by shaving his long hair to blend in with Vietnamese along the way since shaving hair was a common custom of Vietnamese men of that era but not of Chinese men as Nguyễn Khắc Thuần recorded.
caption: Statue of a man with typical Yue-style short hair and body tattoos, from the state of Yue among the non-Chinese Baiyue peoples of southern China and north Vietnam.
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