A Study Of Chu State's Embroidery

The paper mainly studies the inherent cultural structure, cultural spirit, external formsand artistic characteristic of Chu State's embroidery. On this basis, the paper discusses itscultivated source, explores its inherent relations with ancient culture, studies thebroadcasting channel of Chu's embroidery and states its extensive and far-reachinginfluence in accordance with the observation and analysis on the time and space.Based on the above mentioned research contents, this thesis mainly carries out theresearch from two aspects:"Dao" and "Qi"."Dao" means the spiritual connotation of thetraditional culture, and "Qi" means the implements entity of the traditional culture. Basedon the large amounts of archaeological findings and connecting the brilliant achievementsof the research in ancient and modern on "Dao" in historiography, philosophy, aesthetics,literature, art theory, ethnology, mythology and so on, the author deeply analyzes anddiscovers the outer characteristics and inner cultural spirits of the embroidery art in Chukingdom. Therefore the aim of "understanding the Dao by seeing the Qi" is achieved.Based on the analysis and research, the paper discovers the differed artisticcharacteristic of embroidery between Chu and Northern Central Plains. Its inherent culturalstructure, cultural spirit is united with the ancient cultural of lower-middle reaches ofYangtze River, which embodies its own historical source. At the same time, for the sake ofthat the matrix of Chu's embroidery of is plural; the cultural characteristic of Chu'sembroidery presents the characteristic of plurality. Secondly, the major content of Chu'sembroidery is Phoenix&Loong culture, the special cultural content of which shows theploughing and sowing nature of Phoenix culture in southern China and the nomadic natureof Loong culture in northern China. The bizarre external characteristic of Chu'sembroidery presents not only the tendency of mysticism mainly represented by Miao nationality, but also the deep influence from aesthetic perspective of the rising Taoistculture, namely "learning from the universe","equality" and "aesthetic image". Thirdly,the gorgeous sculpt and the color of Chu's embroidery is inherited from its own culturaltradition, and the glorious characteristic is a masterly generalization and summation ofChinese traditional aesthetics. Fourthly, the reasons that the Chu's embroidery is therepresentative of highly developed Chinese embroidery are: the excellent embroiderytradition of Chu, the extravagant style of archons and large demand based on the "rush forfancy garment", the highly developed embroidery under the mercantile system.To sum up, Chu's embroidery is an extraordinary history chapter in ancient Chineseembroidery culture. It carries the essence of silk weaving culture and the wisdom of Chupeople. Its unique characteristic and artistic design becomes the model after ages and alsoprovides the rich resource for the development of embroidery art and transformation ofmodern culture.