| Tujia costume is one of the important supporters of culture of Tujia nationality; It’s a comprehensive Tujia historical origin, religion, economic development, social values and cultural tradition, and also is the embodiment of a symbol of Tujia ethnic group consciousness and national spirit.The Southwest Hubei, as a core area in Tujia culture, because of its cultural diversity of Bashu hell, reflects the rich connotation of cultural history. For the study of Tujia costumes visual symbols, this paper starts from the factors that influence the fashion visual symbols generated, follow Pearce’s semiotic theory, which as a clue, beginning with the Tujia the historical and cultural background, Tujia costumes origin traceability, mining development and change of Tujia costumes cultural background. I summed up the Tujia costumes style structure, unique color and pattern, unique process materials, through the comparative analysis of classification of Tujia costumes and Miao, Yi dress, through Southwest Hubei Tujia brocade XILABKAPU", analysis of Tujia costumes patterns, colors and features. In the explanation of the relationship between the Tujia costumes and Tujia brocade, I also put forward a new point to concrete, thay is "tradition and innovation","master", and the proportion of plane and solid "," harmony and contradiction "argument.National dress culture is an important part of national traditional culture of Tujia people, hard-working, kind-hearted, honest attitude to life and fashion visual symbols complement each other. Tujia costumes unique visual symbol is composed of Tujia unique geographical environment, hard to build a life together, for the study of visual symbols of national costumes, is to explore the Tujia ethnic traditional culture, through the analysis of interpretation of the Tujia costumes. Only to understand the essence, can we extract the typical visual symbols, provide reference for the current expression of Tujia costumes into "soil seedling culture circle". To carry forward the traditional culture, to realize the unity of national character and times for feasibility of the road. |