Gender Perspective Lingerie Cultural Phenomenon

Fashion is the labor of human-specific, it is both the crystallization of the material, but also has spiritual meaning, is social, political, economic, cultural, ideological and other aspects of comprehensive result. At the same time, it is the decoding time- can be illustrated clothing this side mirror society in this arena. Culture is linked with the development of human society, almost from the day the origin of clothing, people had their living habits, aesthetic taste, color preferences, and all sorts of cultural psychology, religious ideas, are being deposited in clothing, building spiritual content of the clothing culture. Now, as a second skin lingerie body is no longer a taboo subject, but can go fashion show of clothing sets. In different social background, the underwear has been given different cultural connotations. The origin of underwear, not only reflects the basic human needs, but also culture and the Beginning. "Underwear from generation to have the cold from the practical and ethical function of modesty, but also has the meaning of cultural symbols, reflecting the era of human, national, customs, ideas, aesthetic, psychological and cultural significance and value."On the origin of underwear, or going back to the West, although the woman in ancient China has been the tradition of using the apron and bra, but it does not develop into a modern sense of the underwear. Underwear culture originated in Europe early, nearly 600 years of history. Underwear in different social environments of western and historical background of the formation of a distinctive culture. In the stern feudal moral concepts under the influence of social customs, morality, decency under the constraints of ancient Chinese people pay more attention to and pay attention to subtle beauty. The emphasis on personal liberation of Western history, individual based, focusing on human body. Western sculpture of the human body and the body as "the eternal art", they had a full human body to show and describe, and clothing as an expression of the strong human desire to create a way. In order to better highlight the human body, the needs of the times people invented all kinds of new underwear, and give them a specific name. Although the underwear industry in China's development time is not long, however, the concept of underwear ancient times in China, already exist. Far away in ancient times there have been made from the flax by the sub-thin linen underwear, from the Qin Dynasty in the literature already see the record in this regard. In ancient times, all inside my coat to wear, can be called "underwear." China's production of underwear, and the worship of the ancient ancestors of great relevance to reproductive and this comes back we will detail. In ancient China, underwear and outerwear in the shape and there is no significant difference. However, with the development of society, silk dissemination of technology, increasingly different from the coat functional underwear. The real form of the underwear Shang and Zhou dynasties, called "Ze" and later called "Xie Yi." To the Han Dynasty, people began to tend to the pursuit of fine clothing, but also the "Pa belly", "belly hold", and "heart clothes" and other styles. Underwear after the call to change with the change of dynasties, the most representative, such as Southern and Northern Dynasties, "Liang Dang," Tang Dynasty "Hezi" Song of the "Bra", the Yuan Dynasty "Acacia lapel" Ming Dynasty, "the main waist", the Qing Dynasty's "apron" and so on. These underwear all have one thing in common, they are in a hazy, restrained way to express the pursuit of beauty, to add a lot of Chinese clothing culture vivid colors. Today's Chinese underwear under the influence of western culture, the concept and meaning of wearing a lot of changes have taken place. Modern people wearing underwear, has not only to meet the physiological needs. Underwear aesthetic culture, age, emotion, communication, etc., With the development of science and technology to improve and continually update their content.Thousands of years, the social system has undergone major changes. However, whether in the traditional feudal society, or in the open and civilized modern society, Chinese women in the male is always under pressure. This pressure continued to strengthen women's "client" role, resulting in women being consciously and unconsciously take different form of violence or, worse, the female "happy one." Does not show his underwear secret because, in ancient times also known as the "Xie Yi," "obscene" as "light, not serious," meaning, it is the privacy of people's underwear has long been despised, few people on this costume depth and systematic research, fewer people will put it in the larger context of Chinese culture, an academic study. However, the material determines consciousness, the existence and spread of underwear, has been stretching for thousands of years, it is sufficient to prove the existence and value of rationality. Underwear cultures present study is relatively small, and concentrated in aesthetic culture, costume design, art and so on.As the traditional people's attitudes, the lack of historical records of ancient underwear, research and so very different perspective, the academic culture of the Chinese women's underwear analysis of the phenomenon still remain in a relatively shallow level, the content covers a broad and comprehensive is not enough. In this paper, from a gender perspective and cultural background of Western underwear, using empirical research methods to physical theory, semiotics theory, women in anthropology, feminist criticism of science and other theories, to analyze the culture, explore the phenomenon of women's underwear in China, development, changes the whole story, and by the analysis of relevant underwear ad pictures and text interpretation, anatomy of contemporary emergence of the "underwear dress outside" and so on, which gives us a full range of cultural phenomena underwear understanding and perspective on the inquiry into a three-dimensional, multi-dimensional understanding of the existence and the cause of women for their own meaning of existence in China. Clothing is not only constitute the overall culture of human population is one of many components, but also "the whole community habits, ideas, technology and state the most obvious characteristics of the expression." Therefore, the analysis of clothing, one of the underwear variety of cultural phenomenon has its special significance.