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How to treat the cultural differences between China and the West from the perspective of dress etiquette?

Western culture is more open than eastern continental civilization, and the integration of foreign cultures is one of the important factors for its development and growth, and it is a simile culture. One is located in the Far East and the other is located in Western Europe. The differences of regional cultural origins between China and the West determine the differences of costume culture.

The Yellow River civilization in China includes agricultural civilization. Since ancient times, China people's personalities have been as broad and gentle as the earth, forming a China culture characterized by implication and tolerance. Coupled with the long feudal social and political system, it has created its own developed cultural system. The origin of China clothing culture, like China culture, developed and flourished in a relatively fixed geographical environment, with a single and distinctive feature.

The origin of western costume culture comes from the interweaving and influence of different civilizations in its vast geographical environment, which is formed with the great migration of nationalities. After the great migration from the northern Germanic nationality, the western costume culture is gradually in the process of continuous integration, accumulation and sublation, forming a positive personality. The west has constructed an aesthetic culture system completely different from the eastern aesthetics. In terms of clothing aesthetics, westerners especially admire the beauty of the human body, attach importance to expressing the gender differences of the human body, and are not afraid of expressing sexiness, which is completely different from the eastern Confucian culture, and often regard clothing as an important part of human body art.

Especially when Pythagoras used mathematical equations to calculate the proportion of human body and study the golden ratio of human body, the difference between the realistic style of western human body and the freehand style of oriental artistic conception was revealed. In addition, based on three-dimensional cutting, western clothing mostly presents three-dimensional effect, emphasizing three-dimensional sense and sense of fit, pursuing the maximum fit between body and clothing, and pursuing the adaptation of dressing style to the overall shape. At the same time, various three-dimensional decorations such as knots, skirts, ribbons and tailoring are used to decorate clothes. Although the patterns and patterns on the fabrics used are simple, even many clothing materials are monochrome fabrics, but the styles are naturally coordinated, which is easy to arouse the aesthetic pleasure of the viewers.

Aesthetic consciousness is a person's ability to reflect different aesthetic objects in his own aesthetic activities, including aesthetic perception, aesthetic feeling, aesthetic taste, aesthetic ideal, aesthetic standard and other different aspects, commonly known as aesthetic feeling. He is a conscious activity after aesthetic activities enter the stage of human psychological thinking. Clothing aesthetic consciousness is the aesthetic feeling that people feel through clothing in aesthetic activities and express with thinking ideology.

First of all, the differences between China and the West are manifested in following different development routes of harmonious beauty and natural formal beauty.