As for stipulating the ch'i-p'ao as national dress, some held that the ch'i-p'ao, which was Manchu after all, was not representative of China. But after 268 years of Manchu rule, the clothing of China was completely different from the clothes of the Song and Ming Dynasties. Resurrecting the long dead would not be easy.
製定國服時，雖有人認為以滿服為國服不具代表性，但中國經滿人統治二百六十八年，服裝早已異於宋、明時期，如要強行打破習俗，再行復古，實在不容易。