The course and process of China's clothing culture

China's clothing has a long history, from primitive society, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Spring and Autumn Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Song, Liao, Xia, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Ming and Qing Dynasties to modern times, all of which have attracted worldwide attention with distinctive features.

clothing in primitive society

The Spring and Autumn Annals of Lu, Shiben and later Huainanzi written by people in the Warring States Period mentioned that Huangdi, Hu Cao or Bo Yu created clothes. From the aspect of unearthed cultural relics, the origin of costume history can be traced back to the late Paleolithic period in primitive society. A bone needle and 141 drilled stone, bone, shell and tooth ornaments were found in the cave man site in Zhoukoudian, Beijing (about 19, years ago). It was proved that simple clothes could be sewn by using natural materials such as animal skins. The history of Chinese costume culture originated from this.

About 1, years ago, it entered the Neolithic Age, with the invention of textile technology, and from then on, clothing materials were made of hand-woven fabrics, and the form of clothing changed and its function was improved. Cloak-like clothing, such as full-length clothes and single clothes, has become typical clothing, and the accessories are becoming more and more complicated, which has a great influence on the formation of clothing system. After the appearance of textiles, through-head clothing has developed into a stereotyped clothing style, which has been widely used in a long period of time, a very vast region and many ethnic groups, basically replacing the Paleolithic component clothing and becoming a rough type of human clothing. In the Neolithic Age, besides general clothing, crowns, boots, headdresses and ornaments were also found from some pottery relics.