What are the three characteristics (connotations) of traditional costumes in China?

First, the cultural connotation of China's traditional costumes

Clothing is an important element of human life and an important part of human civilization. It meets the needs of people's material life and represents the culture of a certain period. Clothing design, fabric selection, color matching, etc. They all recorded the level of productive forces and social conditions in a specific period, and reflected people's ideological culture, religious beliefs and aesthetic concepts.

China traditional costume culture is not an isolated cultural phenomenon, it is the unity of material and spirit, and it is also the materialized form of subjective beauty attached to the material carrier. It not only advocates the expressive force of symbols, but also pays attention to aesthetic pleasure, pays attention to the creation of formal beauty and the expression of emotional concepts, makes the connotation and expression perfectly unified, and shows the artistic taste of national aesthetics with the beauty of scene blending and image unity. Taking the color in China traditional costume culture as an example, its cultural connotation also evolves with the development of society and the changes of the times, and presents distinct aesthetic characteristics of stage, nationality and times. China's traditional costume culture is rich in life colors, has the characteristics of hierarchical identity and is endowed with specific ethical significance. For example, in the Shang Dynasty, five colors of cyan, latosolic red, yellow, white and black taken from nature were regarded as aristocratic colors, and it was stipulated that only clothes of slave owners and nobles could use these colors, and "green refers to the text, red refers to the chapter, black refers to the marrow, black refers to the gift, and multi-color preparation".

Second, the aesthetic implication of China's traditional costumes

1, moderately harmonious "sense of beauty"

The implication and elegance of China's traditional costumes are consistent with China people's orientation of peace, satisfaction and moderation. The Confucian Doctrine of the Mean and China's Doctrine of the Mean both emphasize "harmony but difference", which is clearly reflected in China's traditional costume culture. China's traditional national costume is not as precise as a suit, and it is also different from that of ancient Greece and Rome. Instead, it adopts a "semi-fitness" style, that is, it advocates an implicit beauty that is inclusive and does not limit the human body. Investigate its reason,

As a virtue, "peaceful temperament" has been respected by the ancestors of the Chinese nation since ancient times. The so-called "life must be full, and besides, it is extravagant", and the true meaning of pursuing happiness is "spiritual happiness and leisure are better than material progress". This is reflected in the clothing culture, that is, paying attention to randomness, leisure and harmony, without excessive prominence, exaggeration and deliberate modeling, giving people a subtle, peaceful and mysterious aesthetic feeling in peace. China's traditional clothing makers (tailors) rely on intuition and experience in the process of designing and making clothing, and present an implicit "rational beauty" in "fitness", instead of the western "rational beauty" based on mathematics and physics.

2. Pursuing the "implicit beauty" of artistic conception

Implication belongs to the artistic beauty of China traditional literature. This technique usually embeds the author's emotional expression into the image and artistic conception of the work, so as to achieve the artistic effect of inspiring association and lasting aftertaste, and show the artistic realm of "there is a scene in love and affection outside the scene". This is similar to the freehand brushwork in Chinese painting, that is, it does not stick to the objective reproduction of things, but emphasizes the appreciation of some subtle and implicit beauty and the publicity of "emptiness" in the relationship between reality and reality. When introduced into the artistic creation of costume culture, designers pay special attention to the beauty of "unsigned, super relaxed and smart", and do not deliberately pursue the accuracy of numerical values or the objective aesthetic feeling in pure form, but advocate the implicit expression of emotions with infinite image beauty. For example, taking off robes, clever modeling or abstract and implicit clothing patterns such as animals, geometric patterns, flowers, branches and vines are combined with realism and variation to convey an intention related to politics or ethics.

Third, the inheritance and expansion of China's clothing culture.

China is called "the kingdom of clothing". Throughout the development history of China's costume civilization, we can know that "harmony" and "unity" are the essence of China's traditional costume culture. Since its birth, China's costume culture has followed the production principles of warmth and aesthetic expression, symbol display and symbolic expression, highlighting individuality and happiness and auspiciousness, in order to achieve the harmonious unity of costume and nature, costume and society, costume and people to the greatest extent. The blending of scenes and images is the most precious aesthetic quality of China's traditional costume culture. For example, as a basic element of China's traditional costume culture,

"Signs highlight culture" is mainly used to mark and express people's ideas about rank, occupation, age and gender in production and life, from the clothing signs of primitive tribal leaders and hunting heroes to the official clothing signs of feudal emperors, from the clothing signs of civilian military attaché s to the clothing signs of modern military uniforms, professional clothes and evening dresses. All of them show the aesthetic connotation of "marking highlights culture".