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The significance of Chinese traditional dress to Chinese traditional culture

Traditional Chinese dress culture as an important part of China's outstanding traditional national culture.

China has been known as the "ancient country of clothing". The Chinese nation has nurtured a bright national culture in the long history, and the dress culture, as an important part of China's excellent traditional national culture, reflects the social development of the time and the pursuit of people's spiritual values and ideological and cultural heritage.

Guo Moruo said, "Clothing is the representation of culture, clothing is the image of thought." China's traditional dress through the accumulation and intermingling of generations, constantly enriched and developed, fused with different periods of people's aesthetic thinking and aesthetic interests, forming the unique dress culture system of the Chinese nation.

In today's economic globalization and cultural diversification, China's traditional dress culture shines in the world stage of clothing culture. The aesthetics of traditional dress culture is subtly influencing the dress psychology, hobby and aesthetic style of Chinese people. The study of the aesthetic thought of China's traditional dress culture has an important value for promoting the rapid development of China's dress culture industry.

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1. "Social Beauty ": marking the prominent aesthetic idea is the basic feature of China's traditional dress culture.

In China's traditional society, Confucianism is the orthodoxy of social rule, and the dress concept of Confucius, a representative figure of Confucianism, has a great influence on the concept of dress in later generations. "Kegel and return to propriety," "WenQiBinBin, and then gentleman," Confucius's concept of dress to benevolence and righteousness as a moral paradigm, to rank, order and etiquette to constrain dress, emphasize the dress of the political and ethical consciousness, highlighting the norms of social etiquette.

2. "Natural beauty": the aesthetic idea of being spontaneous is the spiritual pursuit of China's traditional dress culture.

The beauty of nature is an important aesthetic idea of China's traditional dress, and Taoism is the main philosophical school of China's ancient society. The representative figure Laozi said, "Man is lawful to the earth, the earth is lawful to the sky, the sky is lawful to the Tao, and the Tao is lawful to nature." Heaven is nature, man is part of nature, and heaven and man are united in nature. This idea of "unity of heaven and man" is the basic spirit of China's philosophy and the philosophical basis of the aesthetic idea of naturalization of China's ancient costumes.

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