The Changes Of Traditional Textile Culture Under The Perspective Of Livehood Transfer

In Chinese history, that"men to plow and women weave" is a true p- ortrayal of the traditional agricultural civilization. It was recorded in a historic book that if women were not engaged in textile , people would not have textile products to use, no clothes to wear, which Indicated the importance of textile in daily life, and stressed women's status and role in the farming period in family life . The traditional textile skills, a part of the traditional culture of Yao nationality, have always been changing with farming civilization .Yao textile culture reflect ,to some extent, the specific historical context of the economy, culture, education and politics then. As the main means of livelihood changed, traditional textile would also change accordingly, thus led to the drastic change of traditional textile culture in the short term. As the anthropologist Clyde ? Woods said: "(culture) often changes with the social and cultural environment as well as the natural environment ." The analysis of the changes of traditional textile under different means of livelihood , the analysis internal and external environment, and the summarization of the law of changes have some theoretical and practical significance for the protection and hand-down of traditional culture and heritage.This paper ,with historical and anthropological approaches, plans to analyze changes in such aspects as textile tools, skills and its cultural functions, and the roles livelihood transfer played in textile and cultural changes, so as to summarize the problems in the traditional protection and of textile culture , and finally put forward measures to protect local traditional culture and shed a light on protection and inheritance of traditional culture.