How to deal with the differences between Chinese and Western traditional dress culture

The Difference Between Chinese and Western Dress Culture

The gap between China and the West can be broadly divided into: skin color, language, education, diet, etiquette, clothing, time, life ** sex, interpersonal communication, social system, religious beliefs.

I. Comparison of Chinese and Western ways of thinking

The biggest difference between Chinese and Western aesthetics comes from the cultural difference, which lies in the different ways of thinking. This difference has become more and more obvious since the formation of Hegel's philosophical system in the West, and different ways of thinking lead to different ways of behavior.

Hegel's philosophy has three characteristics

I. The idea of dynamic dialectics, which is its most prominent feature.

II. Dialectical reason, i.e., thoroughgoing rationalism and logic.

Three, built on the first two features, that is, the "three unities" of logic, epistemology and ontology,

in Hegel the three are reduced to one thing.

Western culture's mode of thinking focuses on logic and analysis, while Eastern culture's mode of thinking exhibits the intuitive wholeness that also characterizes traditional Chinese cultural thinking.

Because of the influence of this traditional culture, Chinese people tend to pay special attention to the aesthetic intuition, pay attention to the cognitive process of experience and feeling, and often in the interaction with this experience and feeling to "judge oneself". In essence, stereotypes tend to ignore the differences between individual things, exaggerated cognitive attitudes related to another social group, often with feelings ** color, and accompanied by fixed creed. Among all the stereotypes, some of them are correct, while others are wrong, which can directly affect intercultural communication and cause communication errors.

Moreover, people's aesthetic ability arises in the process of socialization and is inevitably linked with values. Every culture has its own unique value system, which can help people distinguish between beauty and ugliness, goodness and evil, which is people's philosophy of life, moral standards and behavioral norms.

But it can not be separated from the specific culture and the existence of each culture, each culture's standard of judgment is different, this culture thinks it is good, another culture may think it is not good, but they are in their own cultural system has its own reasonableness of existence, can never be understood as a kind of value standard is advanced, while the other kind of value standard is backward.

Taking the Chinese and Western cultures as an example, in the Chinese culture, people respect modesty and courtesy, and seek to settle down as things go along, and do not like to compete and win, and at the same time, the social atmosphere tends to block the individual who stands out too much, as the so-called "behavior is higher than the crowd, the people will be wrong". In Chinese culture, collective orientation dominates, and the pursuit of personal development is considered a serious form of individualism and is inevitably condemned. In Western culture, individualism is highly prized, and "settling for what comes" is seen as a lack of enterprising spirit, synonymous with laziness and incompetence, and undesirable to both society and the individual. The idea of humanism is rooted in their hearts, and people advocate independent thinking, independent judgment, relying on their own abilities to achieve personal interests, and believe that personal interests are supreme.

Chinese people pay attention to modesty, and in socializing with others, they emphasize "humility and respect for others" as a virtue, which is a phenomenon of politeness that is characteristic of Chinese culture. When others praise us, we will often be self-deprecating to show that we are modest and courteous. Western countries do not have such a cultural ** habit, when they are praised, they will always be very happy to say "Thank you" to show acceptance. Because of the cultural differences between the West and the East, we think that Westerners are overconfident and have no modesty; and when Westerners hear Chinese people dismissing others' praises of them in this way, or when they hear them dismissing their own accomplishments, or even devaluing themselves to the point of being worthless, they are surprised and think that the Chinese people are dishonest.

More often than not, there are a lot of people in China who make a lot of trouble over a little bit of face. Westerners don't have the concept of face, but in Chinese society, which is imbued with Confucian culture, this is too important. Confucian culture attaches great importance to face. A good example of this is that a scholar can be killed but not humiliated. Westerners can't figure out why they would sacrifice their lives for something so nebulous. But the Chinese look at it very seriously. Even now in Chinese society, if one treats someone with respect, it is to give them face. To do something for someone is to give them face. Any kind of politeness or praise is giving face. If someone does not give them face, they will be upset. So the Chinese do things on the basis of people.

Specific examples of cultural conflict between China and the West:

1 Privacy conflict

The Chinese people's concept of privacy is relatively weak, the idea that the individual to belong to the collective, together to pay attention to the unity of friendship, mutual concern, so the Chinese people are often willing to learn about other people's pain and suffering, the other side is willing to be frank and honest. Westerners, on the other hand, pay great attention to personal privacy, personal space, not willing to mention too much to others about their own things, and even more reluctant to let others interfere. Therefore, in the privacy issue of the two sides often conflict, for example: Chinese people often ask each other for the first time to meet the age, marital status, children, occupation, and even income, in the eyes of the Chinese this is a kind of politeness, but in the eyes of the Westerners think that these questions violated their privacy.

2 conflict over time

The Western view of time and money is linked together, the idea that time is money is y rooted, so they cherish time, often in life, time to do a careful arrangement and planning, and developed a good ** habit of going to appointments on time. In the West, to visit someone, must be notified or agreed in advance, and explain the purpose of the visit, time and place, by agreement before proceeding. The Chinese belong to the multi-directional time ** habit of the country, the use of time has a great deal of discretion, generally not as strict as the Westerners in accordance with the plan, Westerners often feel uncomfortable with this.

3 catering ** the conflict of vulgarity

The Chinese people have always had a good tradition of hospitality. In the social occasions and the banquet, the warm Chinese people often toast each other smoke and wine. When the Chinese host a banquet, even if the table is full of delicious food, the host always ** customarily say a few words "more tolerance" and other polite words. The host will sometimes use chopsticks to guests in the bowl of food, with a variety of ways to persuade guests to eat more food, drink more wine. In western countries, people emphasize respect for personal rights and privacy, so they will not do things that are difficult for others. When you are eating, you will never be forced to eat what you want to eat, and they will not use all kinds of ways to persuade the guests to drink, and they will not want you to get drunk.

Second, the aesthetic difference

Chinese aesthetics and Western aesthetics are two different ideological and cultural systems of aesthetics. They each have their own different social background and cultural environment, each have their own different history of development and traditional ** and so on, so all kinds of lead to the difference between Chinese and Western visual aesthetics.

Ancient Chinese aesthetics favored the expression of the heart, based on the words of love, which makes the traditional Chinese aesthetics pay more attention to the pleasure of aesthetics and weakened its realistic content, and a lot of the use of writing, lyrical way, so there are sufficient conditions to make the Chinese aesthetics tends to the expression of the artistic mood. As a result, in the visual arts, China created its own calligraphy art, especially in the content and artistic creation of Chinese paintings, using figures, landscapes, flowers and birds as the subject matter, reflecting the ancient Chinese people's understanding of nature, society, and the political, philosophical, religious, moral, literary and artistic aspects associated with it.

Western ancient aesthetic heart is more in favor of performance, based on imitation of realism, so that the Western traditional aesthetics focus on aesthetic authenticity, enhance its realism, the use of imitation, reproduction methods, so there are sufficient conditions to tend to realistic theory of art. Therefore, the invention of drawing, oil painting, and its expression in sculpture, all reflect its high demand for the existence of reality, mathematical and physical proportions, focusing on the visual form, the structure of the object and the essence of the construction.

Three, the difference between Chinese and Western clothing aesthetics

From the emergence of human society, people have produced a subjective reflection of beauty, with the continuous development of aesthetics and the sense of beauty, also appeared as an aesthetic sense of expression of the art of clothing. The aesthetic ideal refers to the concentrated expression of the aesthetic pursuit formed by a specific nation in a specific historical stage, and is the highest crystallization of the material civilized life and ideology of a certain society in the field of aesthetics.

Chinese clothing aesthetic culture is roughly on the basis of the Yellow River civilization, formed in a relatively fixed and closed regional environment compared to the West. With the continuous progress of civilization and the change of dynasties in the Central Plains, Chinese clothing culture has a high degree of development. It has a strong inheritance. Western clothing aesthetic culture is built on the basis of the Mediterranean civilization, across the three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa block, successively mixed a variety of different regions, different periods of civilization.

With the continuous migration of different races in Asia, Europe and Africa three continents, the culture continues to move, exchange and collision until the fusion, and ultimately formed a European Christian culture as the center of the clothing culture. And due to the continuous cultural integration, western clothing culture shows a strong complexity and inclusiveness. Relative to the Chinese clothing culture is more diverse.

Western culture is more open than the eastern continental civilization, the integration of foreign cultures is one of the important factors in its development and growth, is a kind of metaphorical culture. One is located in the Far East and the other in Western Europe. The different cultural origins of the Chinese and Western regions determine the different clothing cultures.

China's Yellow River civilization contains an agricultural civilization, since ancient times, the Chinese people's character is as wide and gentle as the earth in general, the formation of the characteristics of the implicit tolerance of Chinese culture. Coupled with the long feudal society and political system, it has constructed its own developed cultural system. The origin of Chinese clothing culture as Chinese culture is in a relatively fixed geographical environment to develop and prosper, with a single and distinctive features.

The origin of western clothing culture comes from the intersection and influence of different civilizations in his vast geographic environment, and is accompanied by the formation of the great migration of peoples. Western clothing culture after the great migration from the northern Germanic peoples, gradually in the continuous integration, continuous accumulation, continuous abandonment of the changes, the formation of an active and positive character characteristics. The West has constructed an aesthetic culture system that is very different from the Eastern aesthetics. In clothing aesthetics, Westerners especially advocate the beauty of the human body, pay attention to the performance of the human body sexual differences, no taboo to show sexy, which is very different from the Eastern Confucian culture, often clothing as an important part of the body of art to see.

Especially when Pythagoras used mathematical equations to calculate the proportion of the human body, the study of the human body's golden section ratio, more revealing the difference between the Western physical style and the Eastern mood of the realistic style. In addition, the western clothing based on three-dimensional tailoring, most of the three-dimensional effect, emphasizing the sense of three-dimensionality and sense of fit, the pursuit of the maximum degree of fit between the body and the clothing, the pursuit of dress up the style of the overall modeling compatible, while using a variety of three-dimensional ornaments such as flower knots, ruffles, ribbons, cutouts, etc. decorative clothing, the use of fabric on the pattern, patterns, although simple, and even many of the clothing production materials are monochrome fabrics, but the style is natural and harmonious, easy to use.

These are the most popular and most popular of all, but the style is natural and harmonious, easy to provoke the viewer's aesthetic sense of pleasure.

Aesthetic consciousness is a person in their own aesthetic activities, the ability to present the different aesthetic objects reflect, including aesthetic perception, aesthetic feeling, aesthetic interest, aesthetic ideals, aesthetic standards, and other aspects of what is commonly referred to as the sense of beauty. He is aesthetic activities into the psychological thinking stage of people's consciousness activities. Clothing aesthetic consciousness is people in the aesthetic activities through the clothing felt, to think about the ideological expression of the sense of beauty.

First of all, the differences between China and the West are manifested in the different development of the beauty of coordination and the natural form of the law of beauty.