The Research Of Han Nationality's Costume Of Ming Dynasty

The Han nationality is a nation with long years history, accordingly, the costume of Han people have plenty and abundant history with their inheritance and uniformity. Han clothes ascending from the time of the Yellow Emperor, developed and evolved continually without losing the main character and style. The uniformity of the Han costume is the general feature of clothes in nearly about five thousands years from the Yellow Emperor to the Song and Ming dynasty in about millions of square kilometers. The costumes were strikingly represented by the You Ren, Da Xiu and Shen Yi. The development of Han costumes was a changeable dynamic process just like the Han nationality, in which some of the excellent factors of other nations were involved in. The famous costume expert Zhou Xi bao considered that there were five important transitional times in the history of Chinese costume according to the record of history data. The first reformation was the Costumed and Horse Riding with Arrow Shooting It was carried out by Wuling king of Zhao for military purpose. The second time happened in the period of upheaval for five northern nationalities。Some minority nationality put their own national traits into the Han costume when they were assimilated by the Han nation. The third reformation was in Tang Dynasty, Tang received the traditional excellent factors of the exotic nations liberally. The Man nationality demanded the man of Han nationality to tie the hair and change the type of clothes forcibly when they broke into the Shan Hai Guan, it can be called the fourth revolution and the fifth time was the deep influence of the western costume in the end of the Qing dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China.And for my opinion, after the impingement of the Liao, Xia, Jin and Yuan, there was also a big costume reformation in the early years of the Ming dynasty. In Ming dynasty, there were many alterations in the filed of culture and the institution including the transformation of the costume. In the beginning of the Ming dynasty, Ming Tai Tsu Chu Yuan-chang decided to resume the Tang garment, formed the strict costume grade by prohibiting the custome and the language of mongo, which was a sign of the summit of Chinese feudal autocratic rule. With the political stabilization and the economic development, the commodity economy became more prosperously and the city consumption was stimulated. At the same time, there was more corruption in politics and law. So, the arrogate in the clothes were increasing, and the social fashion changed accordingly. After all, the main changeable trend of clothes in Ming dynasty was from rituality to unorthodox, from reservation, frugality to openness and luxuriousness. It showed the multiplicity instead of sluggishness and dullness.The meaning of this article lies in making an assay of Ming dynasty's social and cultural transformation by analyzing the whole costume development process, and we can see the relation between economic and ideological transformation and the costume alteration. Moreover, the Chinese traditional culture has been focused on by more and more people, with the development of Chinese economy and its strong social international power. A real big1 country is not only has the solid economic strength, but also has the broad cultural effect. The famous writer, artist and civil art rescuer Feng Ji cai insisted that in the time of globalization, culture will return into the localization instead of the assimilation by the mainstream culture of the world. That is to say that in the globalization process, culture is showing most of the features in its local traits, so did Japan and France. When the time America alleged its super country status, France asserted himself as the super culture country by finding his power in spiritual culture. Besides, France set the last Sunday of June as the culture heritage day. When economy globalization becomes more powerfully decades years later, countries will show their national traits only relying on the traditional culture, in which the costume is the prime culture sign and symbol. By which, the national identity of Han will be reinforced, and the national cohesion will be enhanced, too. When we look around, where are the several ancient civilization countries now? However, China, which holds the same long history, keeps its integrality and unification throughout. The reason why China can keep its civilization till now lies in the power of traditional culture. Ming dynasty was the last orthodox dynasty set up by Han people, and it also was in the last golden age of traditional costumes of thousands years history. Therefore, the research of costume in this period brings good benefit to the rebirth of the Chinese traditional culture.