A Study On The Hakka's Costume In South Jiangxi

The Gannan area, in south Jiangxi, consisting of two cities and sixteen counties, is the Hakka's main residency in China. The local costume has a special and unique style. As a particular label, costume carries each nationality's cultural connotation, aesthetic taste and reflects its own religious belief, value, conscious state, and art trait. Studying Hakka's costume is favorable for a better understanding for Hakka's culture and spirit or characteristics. Meanwhile, it has positive influence on saving Hakka's artifacts, protecting and broadcasting Hakka's culture, Hakka's traveling and launching new products of Hakka.On the basis of field survey and literature data, this thesis is to analyze the style, aesthetic characteristic, cultural connotation of Hakka's costume. Costume includes four parts of clothing of men, women, children and wedding and funeral. Because of little difference between Hakka's male clothing and that of the ordinary Han male's, this article is just to study its edge-edge jacket, mandarin jacket, gilet, trousers, gown, straw sandals, wood shoes. While Hakka female clothing is extraordinary different with Han's, especially in head, feet adornment and accessories, we will leave a wide edition for it. The hat for children is a unique item in Gannan's clothing, and it will be written in sorts of classification, design, decoration, social function, patterns and connotation. Wedding and funeral dress will be described behind the Gannan's traditional custom and environment, which will help strength the perceiving. The chapter four tells the main three craftworks, which are weaving chains, embroidering, and silver inlaying. The chapter five extracts the Hakka costume's style and character in this area from its relations with Han's and She tribe's costume, then deduces that Hakka costume is symmetric, united, rhymed, contrasted in aesthetics aspect. The chapter six in this paper discusses that Gannan costume inherits the Chinese traditional auspicious culture and concludes a strong gens conscious.It refers to knowledge, belief, art, law, ethic, custom, other trait and whole complex when a national culture is studied. Under the influence of Hakka ancestor historical migration, The Hakka's costume in Gannank keeps a similar construction to Han's costume, and meanwhile the female accessories, hairstyle and some of the clothing craftwork express a special taste under the influence of minority living with Hakka. The Hakka costume in Gannan is also affected by the traditional auspicious culture and Hakka's gens stystem, and it adopts lots of patterns of blessing, escaping evil, fame, gain, longevity, happiness and so on. Under the influence of genses' conscience, Hakka costume has kept a jacket and trousers system for a long time and ascends it to a mark of clan identification, refusing the outer clothing. Gannan forming a unique costume culture is the result of many aspects, which conclude natural environment, economic level, religious belief, aesthetics taste, and minorities.