Research On Shen Congwen's Clothing Thought

The paper tries to make a breakthrough out of research status and makes a thorough introduction of one of the greatest modern Chinese writers Shen Congwen's studies on ancient costume.It explicates Shen Congwen's costume ideology and reveals his unique understanding of Chinese costume cultural development as well as his ideological value and significance by stating and extracting the connotation and characteristics of Shen Congwen's ideology of costume culture,costume aesthetics,costume display,and costume aesthetic education.Chapter One introduces the research background,research purpose and significance,research status,research method,etc.and highly approves Shen Congwen's achievements in the field of textiles with a unique research perspective,the academic nature of discipline crossover and integration as well as a unique and valuable academic style.His masterpiece Research on Chinese Ancient Costumes,full of patriotism and the ideal of the revitalization of Chinese national culture,sparkles with the glory of human nature and sets a good example of enhancing national cultural confidence and exploring the path of the revitalization of Chinese national culture.In the meantime,it is also the first masterpiece on research on Chinese ancient costumes since the establishment of the People's Republic of China,which is also the first work of costume history,laying a solid research and ideological foundation for later research in relevant areas.It is highly recognized in the academic circle.Chapter Two summarizes Shen Congwen's whole life and cultural identity and makes a point that Shen Congwen is not only a “cultural relic historian” and “image historian”,but also a “scholar of costume culture”.Chapter Three introduces and analyzes main findings and characteristics of Shen Congwen's costume research.It points out that there are unpublished articles written by Shen on textile display,costume and accessory system,image-building of drama characters and so on among nearly 30 articles composed by Shen in early 1950 s on silk,embroidery,textile pattern,dermatoglyphic pattern,dyeing and printing process,costume system,costume customs and more,which also lay an important foundation for studying Shen's costume ideology like his Research on Chinese Ancient Costumes.Chapter Four goes deep into Shen's costume culture ideology and reveals that Shen not only realized the beauty of costumes as substances,but also fully perceived the spiritual characteristics of costumes.He was aware that costume is a kind of national culture and spiritual culture and consciously finished the makeover from the beauty of costumes in written form to the beauty of costumes as signs and the beauty of costumes as spiritual display.Chapter Five discusses Shen's national costume aesthetics view: the beauty of costumes lies in life,nature and folk people and analyzes his costume aesthetics view: the beauty of costumes lies in materials,details,craftsmanship and fashionable design by introducing the ties between costume and aesthetics and the development and superficial characteristics of costume aesthetics ideology.Chapter Six begins with the relation between costume display and cultural practice and then deeply interprets Shen's ideology of shifting from advocating to displaying,making the past serve the present,serving the education and serving the society.Chapter Seven highly praises Shen's ideology and methodology of costume aesthetic education from three aspects,including the “psychological education theory” of costume aesthetic education,costume's “life” enlightenment on civilization,and costume's purification of humanity and puts forward Shen's costume aesthetic education ideology: educating people with beauty and purifying people with culture.Chapter Eight generalizes the origin,value and significance of Shen's costume ideology,uncovers how sustainable,unique and multidimensional his costume ideology is and summarizes the value and significance of Shen's costume ideology from the perspectives of the value of history of ideas,social influence and academic value.In the end,Chapter Nine summarizes Shen's costume ideology by comparison,thinking and analysis and strives to look into the contemporary value of Shen Congwen's costume ideology,illuminate Shen's academic status in the field of modern costumes and the discipline of costumes and put forward the author's ideas about the research topic.