Gentleman Ship-An Aesthetic Ideal Of The Clothing Description In The Book Of Shi Jing

The Chinese culture, broad and profound, is well-established, of which clothing culture holds the important position all the time. The clothing in Shi Jing had shown the situation of the time from Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period, during which ritual music system of Zhou Dynasty obtained further development. Under such political situation, the clothing must have had something to do with this system, and it must have shown the requirement of this system. With such requirement, the clothing in Shi Jing inevitably had the difference with different people, which consists of an organic constituent of such system culture. At the time, the thinker proposed the principle"the acme of perfection"and the aesthetic ideal"gentleman ship", which symbolizes persons'different status and the different status, also demands relevant morals and clothing to match with.This article starts with the clothing of Shi Jing in the angle of study of culture and history .The Zhou Ren's aesthetic pursue is also discussed in this article. It outlines the splendid clothing culture of Zhou Dynasty society.The aesthetic ideal"gentleman ship"manifests in the constructive ideal of difference between goodness and poorness----king's robes clothing as goodness and the common people's short brown as poorness; the utensil ideal of difference between Zhang and Cai. There are 12 Zhang and Cai in different order. The color ideal is that red is honored, black is respected and that white is fashionable. The cloth quality ideal is that Qiu is respected, Jin is expensive and that Ge is regarded poor. Qiu and Jin is the symbol of status. All the common people wear the clothing of Ge. The decorated ideal is that jade is compared to be virtue."Gentleman ship, acme of perfection" is the unification of internal and external beauty, which should be our life pursue goal.