Change Of The Women’s Dress In Han Urban District (1966——2008)

The dress, it’s not only the material carrier of people’s daily life, but also a huge symbol of culture, it pervades in all parts of the world as a common language.Viewed from the origin of dress, whether it is said to be against the cold, or to cover the body, or to express one’s belief, they are all closely related to physical and spiritual life of human beings.The dress, it exists not only simply as an implement or a form. A dress, it can be the recorder of the history, the representative of a civilization. The time of its existence can practically be compared with that of human’s existence; the range of its existence, so to speak, so long as there is human being, there is dresses. The emergence and existence of each kind of dresses has its special cultural and social significance, which mingled with the political, economic, cultural, religious and moral factors, etc.And among them, women’s dress, as an important part, holds a certain status in the progress of human dress, with rich form and connotation. Social relations and the interaction between people and society constantly affect the development of women’s dress; and it also constantly responds in its own way. When the famous France philosopher France mentioned the relationship between the dresses and the culture, he said "If I am allowed to pick from the books published100years after I dead, you know which I would pick?......No, in future books, I would choose neither novels nor historical writings, when history brings some interesting, it would be just another novel......In order to see how women dress themselves, I will select a fashion magazine directly. Their imagination tells me about the future of mankind even more than all the philosophers, novelists, missionaries or scientists". The beauty of nature of women makes them have a keen understanding of beautiful things as well as creative spirit, so they can create beautiful dresses in the history of human development; like a mirror, a subtle change in each age and society, will be clearly shown through sensitive imagine of women. It not only reflects the evolution of society, but also reflects the ideological of progress and the conceptual of progress. Women’s dress is the unique cultural phenomenon of human beings, the changing of women’s dresses show their development route as a group. The history of the development of women’s dress, in a sense, reflects the cultural history of human beings. So, to explore the rules of the development of women’s dresses and prospect for its future has very important cultural and social significance.Modern China has undergone unprecedented transformations in economy, politics, ideology and culture. Under the context of such social changes, human dresses have been quietly changed, and the change of women’s dresses are more evident, which not only reflects the progress of an area, but also reflects the degree of civilization.This paper starts from the daily wear of women in Han, describes how different social environment affects the development of women’s dresses since the Cultural Revolution. From the "whole unification" to "diversity", from blindly acceptance to taking the essence to go to the dregs, we try to explore how Chinese women viewed the world with surprise at the beginning and developed its own style in the end. The paper tries to study the impact of the politics, economy, social culture on women’s dresses when they change from seclusion to openness. The paper also tries to analyses the reasons for cultural change in the process of social development and globalization, so that we handle the change and development correctly.