Evolution Of Ancient Chinese Costumes

Clothing is the result of human unique labor. It is not only the crystallization of material civilization, but also the implication of spiritual civilization. Through ignorance, barbarism and civilization, human society has been moving slowly for hundreds of thousands of years. After our ancestors closed their eyes with apes, the animals and leaves had been hovering around in the wind and rain for countless years. At last, they had difficulty in stepping into the threshold of the civilized era. They knew how to hide the body and warm the body and create a material civilization. However, the pursuit of beauty is human nature, and clothing is to people, such as gold in Buddha, its role is not only in covering up the body, but also beautifying the function. Almost from the day of the origin of clothing, people have deposited their life customs, aesthetic tastes, color preferences, and all kinds of cultural mentality and religious concepts into their costumes, thus forming the spiritual civilization connotation of clothing culture.

Chinese clothing, like Chinese culture, is formed by the infiltration and influence of all nationalities. Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, especially after modern times, a great deal of assimilation and melting of the outstanding cultures of the world's foreign cultures has been able to evolve into a whole so-called Chinese dress culture with Han nationality as its main body. This is the conclusion of American anthropologist English Fei: "a cultural project is the result of external infiltration, or the product of natural independent invention. This issue is very critical for those who focus on historical heritage, and it is also important for those who use comparative research methods. We can say for sure that in all cultures, more than ninety percent of the content comes first in the form of cultural infiltration. To understand the diverse styles, unique styles, bright colors and exquisite workmanship of Chinese costumes, the primary task should be to know a bit about the development path of ancient Chinese costume, so that we can open up the details of Chinese costume culture through browsing.

The achievements of Archaeology and ancient anthropology after the founding of new China have traced the origin and development of Chinese ancient costume culture back to the upper cave age of primitive society in the late Paleolithic age. In the distant past, humans began to hide and protect their bodies and keep warm by hunting hide. In summer, leaves are picked up to protect the sun from heat. This indicates that human beings have just emerged from the animal realm, and the prototype of primitive costumes has emerged. The clothing culture, which is characterized by sewing, is found in the remains of the cave man. The clothing is no longer a simple use of natural materials, but also evolved into a structure suited to the needs of human life, creating a precedent for the Chinese nation's dress culture.

The historical origin of ancient Chinese costumes will be attributed to the Three Sovereigns and five emperors if they are sought from the classics. This era, compared with the remains of archaeological excavations, should be in the boom period of the matriarchal commune in primitive society five thousand or six thousand years ago. The objects unearthed in this period include spinning wheels, bone needles, pendants, and so on. Pottery painting on painted pottery unearthed in Gansu, Central Plains, has vividly and vividly depicted the shape of the upper part of the coat.

During the Shang Dynasty, the rapid development of social productive forces produced many material civilizations. There are mulberry, cocoon, silk and so on visible pictographs from oracle bone inscriptions, which can prove the development degree of agriculture at that time. From the Shang Dynasty's weapons and bronze tomahawks, there were also the silk stripes and the fragments of silk fabrics. In the Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscriptions, we can see that Wang, Chen, mu, Nu, Yi and Wang Ling and so on. With the development of productivity and social division of labor, clothing and costumes began to brand the times, and became the tools of the ruling class "Zhao Ming Xi, Bian Wei Wei". The differentiation of production relations between the humble, the humble and the humble has prompted clothing to form its own hierarchy.

Zhou Dai was the period when China's crown dress system was gradually improved. At this time, the written records of the costumes were very often seen in the inscription of bronzes, as well as the records of costumes and "tigers" (Mao Gongding) and "female Qiu Bao Dian" (Zhou, Bo Cai Wengui). With the emergence of hierarchy, the distinction between the upper and lower classes, and all kinds of etiquette came into being. Reflected in the costumes, there are a dress, a costume, a military uniform, a mourning dress, and a wedding dress. These clothes adapted to the emperor and the common people, and even were used in the feudal society of two thousand years since the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

During the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, the system of Zhou Dynasty was not fully respected. The rise of seven countries is independent. In addition to the western part of Qin, which is different from the other six countries, all the other six countries are all impressed by their hobbies and extravagance, and the prevailing contention of a hundred schools of thought. The three thousand guests in Chunshen Jun are all pearl guests. The guards of the Wei Palace are dressed in black military uniform; the red tape of the Confucianists, the long sleeves, the sleeves, the square shoes and so on. Clothing in the early Han Dynasty was not forbidden by the people. Although the Western Han Dynasty had the dress system of the eighth imperial edicts, it was not clear that most of them were dressed in seasons, such as Chun Qing, Xia Chi, Qiu Huang and winter soap. The daily dress of women in the Han Dynasty was jackets under skirts.

Since the Wei, Jin and southern and Northern Dynasties, the northern nationalities have taken the costumes of the northern nationalities to this area because of the northern nationalities. At the same time, a large number of national costume culture also affected and assimilated the costumes of northern nationalities. The women's daily clothes are still worn above their shirts and skirts. Skirts and skirts can also be used as shirts in the tuxedo.

Sui unified the whole country to redefine the Han dress system, but it is also difficult to get rid of its influence from north to South unification. Only by the establishment of the imperial empire in the Tang Dynasty did its long rule and its powerful national strength make its dress system inherit the past dynasties, and the way of the later generation crown clothing system, showing the same prosperity as its society. The Tang people have frequent contacts with all the nationalities in the northwest. There are many ethnic groups living in the mainland with the Tang people. Therefore, the costumes of Hu people in the Tang Dynasty are often seen in the cultural relics of this era. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, women's daily costumes were shirts, jackets, and skirts. Skirts are most popular in red, followed by purple, yellow and green. Women's shoes in the Tang Dynasty tended to be toe shaped and similar to men. The court men serve the left and right sides with cotton boots, and the dancers also wear boots. Women's everyday clothes are numerous, such as coat, shirt, robe, waist towel, chest, skirt, trousers, knee pants, socks, boots and so on.

The vast land in the Northern Song Dynasty was reduced to the nobility's ruling territory, and ancient Chinese costumes were interacted by their political and economic factors. "Continuation of the rule of reference" records: "Ling'an customs, since ten years, clothing disorder, as Bian Bian......" It can be seen that Kyoto is still in Northern Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, most of the women's daily costumes were lined with jackets, shirts, backs, half arms, skirts and trousers. Its fabrics are Luo, yarn, brocade, silk and silk. In particular, the skirt is quite styled, and its texture is mostly in Luo gauze. The color of pomegranate flowers is red in its color. Pleated skirt is also a characteristic of the skirt at that time. There are six, eight, and twelve different skirts.