Yunnan Miao Costume Pattern Arts Study

Miao is an old nation which has formed his own special culture through the long history As one of their spirit cultures, Miao dress is very richness and the pattern is very heavy and complicated. So this is very infrequence of all the 56 nations of China. Through the pattern and the color of the dress we can estimate which branch it is. Because of the long living in implosive area, most of the dresses are still hold the original look. But with the developing of the society, the traditional dress was changing. Now many patterns of the dress and the design have lost .So it's necessary to study Miao dress.The Miao living in YunNnan has numerous branches ,whose dress are really various and colorful. It is said there is a branch; there is a kind of dress. Besides, there still exists difference in each branch, that is ,every village or stockade has its own style and form .On the one hand, experts and scholars have gone deep into the studies on the model and design of Miao dress of numerous braches. on the other hand, more and more people begin to attach great importance to its design on dressing .In history Miao migrated from time to time, its economical model and cultural tradition, therefore, came to develop into a certain cultural model through long-time resistance, integration, and recognition in the process of the migration from one place to another and the protection against natural environments. It is a pity, however, that this nationality with such a long history has no its written languages, the pattern of Miao' dress has taken the place of written languages, making Miao finds its special characters in the cultural history book of dress, and making the dress design art become 'the historical records without written languages' handed down from ancient times.This thesis is just based on the history of the design on Miao dress to understand the deep connotation of Miao culture. In the first place, this thesis to explore how historical culture of a race influences its dress culture, and conversely how this historical culture is inherited and developed in the dress culture. The abundant contents of Miao dress design just exactly confirm such atwo-way ethnological proposition; secondly, the Miao dress design provides many cases, for example, how dose a race find its beauty in real life, how dose its aesthetic sense come into being, and how is this formation reflected and expressed in the material culture of the race; lastly, I expound my own opinions on the application of national technology in modern society, such as the inspiration and significance of Miao dress design for the modern design, the approach to understanding its design on dressing and colors. All the above are my academic basement for my reflection on how artistic theories should be applied to artistic creation.I believe the academic studies like this will not only inspire my future artistic creation, but also attract more and more other people's attention. Only in this sense, can the purpose of the studies in the thesis be achieved.