A Study On The Costume Of Scholars

The Scholars as if a picture that reflect people’s daily life in Ming and Qing Dynasties, the description of dress become the important content in this picture. Wu Jingzi objectively present all kinds of garments, which not only reappears the uniform customs in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but also present the ideological content of The Scholar. This paper comb and explore the dress of The scholars in-depth, inspect kinds of the garments and interpret it, which combined with folk customs and culture.Through the reflection on all kinds of clothing inspect the characteristics of the dress description and literary artistic value, then further to deepen the understanding of the text. It reveals the Ming and Qing Dynasties social etiquette customs culture based on the amount of ceremonial dress and explore the dress ideas in The Scholars,which is for the sake of deepen understanding of folk culture and the thought of author. This paper is divided into five chapters:The first chapter starts from the description of dress in The Scholars, then inspect the different costumes from the men and women in the text and comb the first dress、feet costumes and accessories.At the same time, the chapter make explanations for the dress to deepen our understanding of dress in the text, which lay a foundation of inquiry of the culture and the thought contained by dress.We comb the garments,from which we can also see the richness of the description of dress.The second chapter concludes the characteristics of the description of dress in The Scholars.We reveals the dress has the characteristics of authenticity、comparative、symbolic according to the text of The Scholars. Authenticity is embodied in the description of dress is consistentnd with the Ming and Qing Dynasties document and literary works, also consistent with cultural relics unearthed from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Comparative reflects in the differencesmof dress from different classes and situation. Symbolic is embodied in dresss tyles and color.Through the embodiment of the characteristics of dress description, which deepen the understanding of dress description in the text.The third chapter discusses the literary artistic value of dress description, which is embodied in:dress description depict the personalities of the characters; dress description expose social atmosphere:dress description connect the plot and propel the development of the story. This chapter discusses the literary artistic value of dress description for further interpretation of the text.The fourth chapter elaborated the etiquette customs culture in The Scholars, mainly from the wedding、funeral、rites and social etiquette. This chapter summarizes and discusses four ceremonial occasions and study the reason of advocating red wedding and white funeral, which is to deepen the understanding of etiquette dress custom culture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.The fifth chapter explores the diversified dress thoughts in The Scholars.We discusses the dress ideas of The Scholars from the ideas of confucian and taoism, that are the level of Confucianism and Gentleman’s clothing should be tidy. people who wears rags have noble moral character and the taoism of dress’s deceptive. In addition, the traditional concept of "return home with beautiful dress" is blended in among the description of dress.Epilogue summarizes the text, which indicate it is of great significance to discuss the dress for the interpretation of the text、the clothing fashion of Ming and Qing Dynasties and the ancient ideas of dress.