Shengze Town Life And The Aesthetic Culture Study (late Qing -1940)

Shengze town was in Wujiang County in Jiangsu. Early Ming Dynasty, that was a small village, end of the Ming Dynasty silk developed into Jiangnan Town, and reached about the development of peak during early Qing-Min period, after that it debilitated step by step. Shengze experienced from the traditional Chinese society to a major reform of modern society.The"Silk Road"of Shengze provided examples for regional economics studies as well as valuable material for the Jiangnan regional culture, early urbanization study by its rich social life and cultural connotation.The humanities and cultural connotation of a region will have a significant impact on the meteorological development.Shengze developed silk industry, From the traditional production mode to enlarge sericulture industry booming, then to the heyday for silk production and trade , each mode of production innovations was exaggerating the silk culture. Production decision of life and aesthetic attitude In the Late Qing Dynast and Eearly Min period , town crowd social patterns and lifestyles have changed,town's humanistic spirit, town's customs and people's aesthetic orientation showed a blend of old and new features. Shengze people actively introduced new trend of culture while followed the old traditional"Silk Town"style, this was an important reason for Shengze Long maintained its vitality.Although only a town, its innovative, open cultural connotation and popular, compatible aesthetic orientation provided a reference model for current the process of urbanization of dealing with cultural collision, the crowd conflict, the spirit of ownership and other issues.