The origin and characteristics of Chinese traditional costumes

I. Origin

National costumes are formed in a specific social life and natural environment, and conform to the living habits and aesthetic sense of the nation.

Hanbok is one of the oldest national costumes in the world. The earliest appearance of Hanfu was during the Yin and Shang Dynasties, before there was any archaeological evidence to support it.

About 5,000 years ago, China in the Neolithic period of the Yangshao culture, the production of primitive agriculture and textile industry, began to weave linen to make clothes, and then invented the sericulture and silk spinning, the people's clothing and costumes are becoming more and more complete.

After Yin and Shang, the crown and costume system was initially established, and during the Western Zhou Dynasty, the costume system was gradually formed. In the late Zhou Dynasty, due to the political, economic, ideological and cultural have undergone drastic changes.

The crown and costume system was included in the scope of the "rule of etiquette", and became the expression of etiquette, and since then China's clothing and costume system is more detailed. Objective Han Chinese people in certain historical stages of national costumes such as Chinese flag dress, cheongsam, waistcoat, etc. can never be called "Hanfu", because they do not have a normal evolutionary process of convergence with the real Hanfu.

Second, characteristics

Traditional Chinese clothing design is abstract, more distinctive, more identifiable exaggeration, more intense, and more freedom.

The national costumes are formed in the specific social life and natural environment, which are in line with the living habits and aesthetic consciousness of the nation. Its national characteristics are mainly manifested in the shape, style, color, material and clothing pieces and other aspects.

The design and refinement of the image of national costumes should be more abstract, more distinctive and more identifiable. In the design process, the designer's mode of thinking should be romantic and dynamic way of conceptualization, with a keen image perception.

The aesthetic characteristics of national costumes are more exaggerated, stronger and more free than other forms of theater. In shape and color, abstraction and exaggeration are its most distinctive features.

The modeling of national costumes is stricter than other forms of theater to adapt to the requirements of the actor's movement, the actor in a large dynamic higher requirements, the performance of the material also has a greater space.

Extended information:

Traditional clothing Hanbok has two basic forms, namely, the upper garment and lower garment system and the garment system.

The system of clothes on top and clothes underneath is said to have begun in the legendary era of the Yellow Emperor, "Yi - the Department of Rhetoric," which reads, "The Yellow Emperor, Yao, Shun, and the world's rule of the world in the clothes, cover from the Qiankun." This legend can be unearthed in Gansu in the pottery culture of colored pottery culture, be confirmed. This can be said to be the basic form of the earliest system of clothing in China.

The clothing system, according to the "interpretation of the name - interpretation of the clothes": "Where the clothes on the said clothes. Clothes, according to also, people rely on to avoid cold and heat. Under the said clothes. Clothing, barrier, so since the barrier also." The shape of the upper garment is mostly cross-necked right overlooking, the lower garment similar to the shape of the apron, the waist tie, the lower tie open. This kind of clothing system had a great influence on the later generations.

The system of clothing attached to a garment, anciently known as Shamyi, was first created in the Zhou Dynasty. According to a note in the Book of Rites - Deep Clothing, "The name is Deep Clothing, which means that the clothes are attached to the garment and purely used for picking." Shamyi is similar in structure to contemporary dresses, with the top and bottom garments sewn together at the waist, and the collar, sleeves, and train edged with other fabrics or embroidered edges.

The form of the deep garment influenced the dress of later generations, with the Han Dynasty's matriarchs using it as a dress, and ancient robes and shirts using this form of garment affiliation.

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