Interpretation Of Intrinsic And Aesthetic Cultural Characteristics Of Cheongsam

Dress is a significant culture carrier and value carrier in the Chinese traditionalculture.It not only manifests effiectively the material standard of living of a specifichistorical period,but also an important form of language sign owing to its cohesion ofabundant cultural connotation.Our country posses the cultural deposits which runs along history of fifty thousand years.Also,as the oriental land of courtesy,our nationattaches much importance to the function and value of dress in social lives and enjoysthe laudatory title of “the King of Dress”.In a variety of Chinese costume groups,cheongsam,as a vital branch,is a classicdress that has the most Chinese traditional characteristcs,and that best represents thefeature of our nation and that fully shows the beauty of oriental women.It enjoys thegood reputation of “National Costume”,“Exotic flower of the Orient”,etc.Cheongsamhas experienced a historial development about three hundred years,which varies fromits original appearance,to the traditional style of Qing Dynasty,to the transformedform in the Republic of China,and finally becomes the current cheongsam.It is moreof an art work filled with strongly aesthetic interest and ideal that a kind of practicaldaily necessities.Its inner aesthetic cultural characteristics are graduallyinterpreted.Cheongsam can’t only be as a kind of material signs,and it reflects culturalconnotation and convention of an age.It insinuates the traditional aesthetic intensionof China,and manifests the beauty of harmony and charm in Chinese traditionalaesthetic.And as a material language of oriental female beauty,cheongsam fully showsthe unique charm and temperament of Chinese women in its special shape and designstyle.Meantime,cheongsam is an important model of form beauty,that is,it creates anunique and colourful visual sign system in its beauty of colour,shape,decoration andhandicraft,which display the rules and laws of form beauty.In a word,as a costantlygrowing culture sign,cheongsam is coming into the vision of numerous audience bothat home and abroad,and is gradually developed into an object that is worth commonattention and appreciation.So cheongsam is worthy to be deeply interpreted inacadamic area.