Study Of The History And Geography Of The Regional Differences In China's Ethnic Minority Clothing

Raiment is a material culture created by humans using wisdom and unique skills. It began from the basic function of the protection of the body, gradually shaping and developing in a certain mode of production and living habits. And it accumulates the profound historic cultural connotations, influenced by the environment of the geographic. China is a unified, multi-national country, fifty-five ethnic minorities formed styles of dress features and distinct national characteristics in their geographical conditions restricted by each historical cultural traditions and level of productive forces. At the same time, each national costume has undergone mutual complementation and mutual influence because of the history of ethnic migration and assimilation. Therefore, raiment of ethnic minorities has remarkable national, regional, heritage and confluent as the same as other folk culture, which constitute a colorful and gorgeous brilliant Chinese costume culture.The main forms of minority costumes include clothing and accessories. Clothes are used to cover up surface of the body, which we can see the style structure and expression form, such as composition of density, space, tonal changes. Accessories are kinds of something mainly used to increase the charm of the wearer, or others which have a certain meaning of design, logo, such as tattoos, makeup etc. These specific factors have varying degrees influenced by historical and geography environment. It is mainly manifested in two ways:One is affected directly by the regional climate, topography, biological and other historical natural geographic factors; another is a history humanistic geography factor such as the national or regional cultural tradition, production mode, and custom also indirectly affecting dress features.Reference national geographic region, China national distribution can be divided into the northeast Inner Mongolia, northwest, southwest, southeast of qinghai-tibet, indo-china. Through the analysis of close relevance between costume style, shape, color, pattern and the historical geography environment about the five regional representative national in each region, such as uygur, Tibetan, dai, zhuang, we can discover environmental variations profoundly influenced the national costumes diversity, so as to further improve the national costumes, raise the Chinese national dress culture level, providing a useful reference and learning.