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Explore The Ancient Chinese Wedding Dress Of The Ethnic Element

Posted on:2011-06-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B Y YinFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360305489518Subject:Art of Design
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Into the 21st century, China has experienced the globalization both in cultural and economic. The modern culture faced a difficult choice is whether completely degenerated or a selective retention.Wedding dress and cultural development is also hovering at the crossroads, with a long history of Chinese culture in the modern wedding dress has undergone great changes, economic and cultural development and lifestyle change to the traditional wedding dress dress features and increase the gap between modern civilization large, increasingly by "wearing a phoenix coronet Xia Pei, sitting Bataidajiao" into the church, wedding, sports cars, diamond rings, concise fashion popular in China, Western-style wedding dress, wedding dress the modern mainstream, people lamented that the change Chinese wedding clothing lopsided.Facing the wedding dress situation in China nowadays, it's urgent for us to think about the question that how to protect and develop traditional Chinese wedding dress, or we belonging to a country carried thousands of years history. Considering the neigbouring countries around us:South Korea, Japan and India. They do very well in traditional wedding dress protection which not only become the mainstream of their country but also spread around all over the world as a special culture. It is worthy of our reference and study. So we appeal to research the cultural characteristics of our traditional wedding dress, in order to find a suitable way with modern design gimmick to China's reality needs of it. Then I put forward the view of how to display the national characteristics of traditional wedding ceremony and how to adapt to the modern people's preferences from the following aspects.Firstly:analysis and clear the traditional wedding dress development in China. Every dynasty has its own traditional wedding dress features and characteristics of marriage. What's more, there are not only relations but also differences between the wedding customs and wedding dress because of the dynastic change. The Chinese traditional wedding dress have a great change specially after the period of the Republic of China which has a great difference in the culture and the style of wedding dress compared with before. The wedding dress also presents a different picture,so we can have a clear understanding of the developing process of Chinese wedding dress and analyze the cause of the forming and evolution through the development.Second:Analysis the social background about the development of Chinese traditional wedding dress and the resulting impact. Analysis the formation and evolution of external factors of the Chinese wedding dress, mainly from the political environment, economic life, religion, ethnic, folk customs, folk, geographical environment, modes of production and living habits, etc. Summing up the social meaning and value about traditional Chinese wedding dress.Third:analyzing the inner factors of Chinese wedding clothes evolvement.This is mainly reflected on the culture. Since ancient times, Chinese advocate humanities like "nature and man in one", "design with nature ". Chinese culture is mainly influenced by Confucian culture, Taoism, Buddhism. under the influence of such culture and thought, Chinese clothing, "Kuanpao big sleeve" style characteristics is not surprising. What Chinese people want is a combination of man and nature, this has created feelings of Chinese-style wedding dress detached refined. From which we can explore the cultural deposit of traditional Chinese wedding dress, sum up the culture features of Chinese-style wedding dress,from which to tap the most representative of Chinese traditional folk elements.Fourth:Mainly to explore traditional Chinese wedding clothes on the national characteristics. different historic periods has its own unique social background and cultural characteristics. The same has unique national elements. How are these national elements able to become the symbol of our nation in their later development, and what is the most representative national element for Chinese characteristic. These will all be defined by analyzing their cultural connotations.Fifth:A representative of the national element should be refining and integrate it to the modern wedding dress designs after the innovation. Through analysis and explore the cultural connotations of the modern marriage service and spiritual needs deeply, Innovate and activate these tradition national elements, in order to glow of modern charm. combined with modern design concepts of the wedding dress and create the modern Chinese wedding clothes that can represent the human spirit. Eventually became both represent traditional Chinese national characteristics and can be favorite among the public and widely popular wedding dress.by summing up the analysis of these five areas, So that more people can recognize the charm of a traditional wedding dress and flourish it, and as a way to show the world the national marriage of traditional Chinese clothing culture and humane spirit. So that the Chinese-style wedding dress will be passed along and developed into a wedding dress that can represent the Chinese culture.
Keywords/Search Tags:Chinese wedding dress, Traditional Symbols, National Element, Cultural values, Development, apply
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