Ethnic Costumes And Colors Of Ethnic Costume Culture

The symbolic function of color evolves along with the evolution of history.

One of the most important and inevitable trends is that the color of clothing has been freed from the historical burden of animal instincts or totem, religion and history, and has become a foil for people to beautify their lives and display their national psychological characteristics.

This is a kind of civilization and progress in the history of human development, because the further development of mankind, the spiritual connotation of aesthetics will be increasingly enhanced, and the demand for dress color will be higher.

The color beauty of clothing is a very important problem.

Some scholars who have studied color have proposed seven rules of color matching: unified method, foil method, ornament method, echo method, block method, buffer method and cohesion method.

Generally speaking, the solemn and simple style is often made up of deep colors, and the light and clear style is often composed of light color series.

People pass the ingenious choice and collocation, through the pition between color and color, produce a feeling similar to the beautiful melody in music, this is the extremely high realm of using color.

In addition, the psychological role of color also includes: contraction and swelling, generally speaking, black and dark have a sense of shrinkage, while white and light color have a sense of expansion; when people see red, orange and yellow, they often associate with the same color of the sun, fire and so on, and produce warm and warm feeling.

Through long-term life practice, all ethnic groups consciously or unconsciously used these functions of color.

Color has its own personality.

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Many ethnic women's costumes are mostly made of colorful, red and green fabrics and have strong national characteristics.

For example, the waistcoat women's underwear of the Yi nationality "Nie Su" branch of the Yi nationality in Mount ershan, Xinping and Shiping County, Yunnan, is made up of two contrasting colors. The whole body is mainly red, red and black, mixed with green, blue, white, and so on.

The back is decorated with five colored strips of cloth and embroidered with rainbow patterns of various patterns, indicating that the sun is shining around.

The colors of ethnic costumes reflect different styles and characteristics, giving people different aesthetic feelings.

The Dulong costume gives people the impression of simplicity and rugged; Miao, Yao, Buyi and other ethnic costumes are exquisite workmanship, colorful and extremely decorative. They use yellow, red, blue, green, white and other contrasting colors. They use colorful weaving, embroidering, picking, dyeing and other techniques. They are colourful and harmonious, with many patterns and no disorder. They show the unique artistic talent and aesthetic psychology of women, and become a powerful tool for all ethnic groups to express their aesthetic feelings and aesthetic ideals.

It can be predicted that with the development of ethnic minority society, the color of national costume as an aesthetic symbol will have the following three characteristics:

1, utilitarian and practical clothing color will continue to move forward in the direction of aesthetics.

Because of the great differences in the social development of ethnic minorities, the concept of "beauty" in many ethnic costumes is mainly derived from their own cultural concepts, that is, "goodness" and "truth" are beauty, and the aesthetic laws of colors do not really play a role, and there is great hope for a breakthrough in the future.

2, the beauty of national costume color is instinctive and unconscious.

With the deepening of color practice, people will have a further understanding and grasp of the nature and law of colors. They will free themselves from their instincts and accomplish a leap in the use of colors to achieve a real sense of self consciousness.

3, the color of ethnic costumes will gradually move from expression group aesthetic consciousness to expression of individuality and freedom of expression. This is a symbol of social equality, civilization and prosperity.

In short, with the development of society, the aesthetic needs of the members of the society who come from animal instincts are summoned and the rules of color aesthetics begin to play a role.

This phenomenon of consciously adjusting dress colors based on aesthetic needs is very common in national costumes.

In order to add some color to their costumes, add some beauty to them, and follow certain rules and rules of color, they create the "meaningful form" of clothing color.

The finishing work of national costume art

Women of all nationalities in Yunnan are not only skilled craftsmen, but also masters of embroidery.

They start with beautifying themselves, and embroider beautiful designs on the hat, collar, cuffs, chest pocket, waist, shoes and satchel, which can best display decorative arts, and give beautiful meaning to them.

Walking into the national folk handicrafts Museum of Yunnan National Museum, this kind of folk art, which is not only practical but also appreciative of value and beauty, will come to us.

Embroidery, known as the "Facade" of national costume art, can be divided into simple embroidered pieces, such as handkerchiefs, scarves, decorative embroideries, and accessories such as cuffs, collar, chest pocket, collar and so on.

Embroidered pieces of different nationalities have their own characteristics.

Embroidered tablet of Zhuang vest.

There are embroidered birds, butterflies, flowers, embroidered flower patterns with white cloth stickers, and the flower and bird patterns of silk embroidery are separated. The composition is symmetrical and extremely exquisite. There are also applique embroidered waistcoat.

Lock embroidery is an embroidery technique of Zhuang, Yi, Bai and other ethnic groups in Yunnan. First embroidered patterns on embroidered pieces, then use different colors of silk thread to "lock" the edges of the patterns, and the stereoscopic feeling is very strong.