Exploration Into The Evolution And The Innovation Of Han Nationality Women's Wedding Dress

Marriage ceremony is a great ceremony in all ages, meanwhile the wedding dress plays a significant role in marriage ceremony. Han nationality, as a major nationality, creates innumerous and colorful costume art, which is an extraordinary treasure in Chinese costume culture.Women's wedding dress of Han nationality experiences evolution over the long history, and has completely westernized up to the present. There is another change at the back of wedding dress evolution, that is to say, the evolution of the culture. This evolution mirrors folk custom and social system in an epoch, records historical and social life, and contains aesthetic values and national spirits. Women's wedding dresses of Han nationality have differences at different dynasties and periods. The wedding dress emerged at the presence of Zhou dynasty's dress, developed during from Qin to Song dynasty, reached a summit at Ming and Qing dynasty, and then became a basic pattern in daily life. However, when the Revolution of 1911 broke out, our country encountered changes which have never been seen for thousands of years, and chinese costume culture start to be violently challenged by western costume culture. Han nationality's wedding dress has greatly changed during the period of Republic of China with just a few decades, in which women's wedding dress experienced the first great revolutionary period. After the foundation of New China, with changes of political system, women's wedding dress makes a series of changes, and we call it the second innovative period. After the innovation and opening up, science and technology make great progress, the cultural communication is increasingly convenient, and everything western bought about the third revolution of wedding dress.Although the global and modern steps speed up, dressing western costume in daily life has become main stream all around the world, however, many nations remain their own traditional costumes very well, such as sari in India and kimono in Japan. Most of countries and nations still dress traditional costumes to take part in marriage ceremony which is of vital importance in our life. Recently, people are apt to agree with the national and traditional costume culture, pay more attention to traditional wedding dress, while remaining and promoting national characteristics of wedding dress is raised to into the agenda. Today we should conceive aesthetic culture of Han nationality's wedding dress in global view based on our tradition and culture, absorb and assimilate design concepts of western costume according to our national situation, summarize and clean up special thoughts and culture of women's wedding dress, which are used to guild the application on wedding dress design, and are worth learning by people from other countries and areas.