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Hi, I’m glad you appreciate my blog ^^ Thanks for the question, and sorry for taking ages to reply! (hanfu photo via weibo):

So, I received this ask (and similar asks) many years ago, but put them off because I wanted to focus on positivity & education and avoid negativity & controversy, especially given how limited awareness of hanfu was in English-language online spaces at the time. Now that hanfu awareness has progressed and stabilized up to a point, I'll answer these asks.

As I stated in my post here, "the hanfu movement is not a monolith. Ever since its inception in 2003, the hanfu revival movement has been a grassroots, bottom-up movement with members of various backgrounds, ideologies, and opinions". There is a variety of motivations, which I wrote about in my posts here and here. According to these posts, the main motivations behind the hanfu movement include affinity and interest in hanfu culture and traditional Chinese culture, aesthetics, and self-expression. Included in this is pushback against Western influences, which is explained in my post here. There are some motivated by ideals of Han supremacy, but that is not the main driving force of the current hanfu movement. There is a more in-depth discussion on this topic in this post.

As for safe ways of participating in the movement, I would just say find like-minded people/organizations that share the same motivations and values as yourself.

As for what I think about the term "huafu", I wrote in my post here that I find it "useful as a short catch-all term for Chinese clothing that isn’t limited to the currently accepted definition of hanfu". I think it's helpful and convenient to have an umbrella term for Chinese clothing that covers both hanfu and ethnic minority groups' clothing. Of course, the term "huafu" is not and should not be a replacement for the term "hanfu".

For more references, please check out my hanfu movement and huafu tags.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.