Study On The Clothing Description Of The Dream Of Red Mansions

Clothing description in the novel is indeed one important way to portray characters,for example, clothing color, style, fabrics etc. each with its function,or highlight the external characters,or give prominence to personalities,or conform to the status of the characters, or convey the emotion of the characters.This paper mainly focus on the description of dress in "The Dream of Red Mansions", and attempt to explore the function of dress description,to find out the the relationship between clothing description and characters, and the relationship between clothing description and status,and then clarifying the deep meaning of clothing.The "Dream of Red Mansions" in the clothing category of this paper is divided into three categories of dress,accessories,wear pieces.The first part is mainly about the clothing description of "The Dream of Red Mansions".The novel refers to the dress color, pattern, style, material of the characters and so on,among them, there are many different kinds of dress colors,and they can be divided into warm and cool colors in two categories.People who dressed in colorful costumes are precious, beautiful,lively and prominent.On the contrary, people who dressed in cool colors are usually wordless and indifferent. In addition, the novel rarely mentions important person the dress color of the important person, in order to show her vulgarity.The above is about the figure’s own dress, belonging to the static description. And people give clothes to others is a way of exchange of emotion, which is a dynamic description, and therefore the image of the character is becoming more three-dimensional.The second part mainly discusses ornaments description of "The Dream of Red Mansions" accessories description.Compared with the accessories, Ornaments has aesthetic and practical function, such as towels, handkerchiefs, fans etc.The ornaments description focuses on the attitude of the characters in the treatment of ornaments.People use a handkerchief as the gift,such as Jia Baoyu presented a handkerchief and so was Jia Yun.Both them use the handkerchief as the media to convey the feelings of love,thus create the image of young people in love.And then on the fan, the different characters treat the fan’s behavior is very different,Qing Wen rip the fan and Xue Baochai made a satire on the fan and Shi Daizi protected the fan like mad,so the images of them were very different.In addition, Figures wearing the novel ornaments suggest people fate.The third part mainly discusses accessories description of "The Dream Of Red Mansions".In the relevant parts of accessories description of the article are quite comprehensive,here the accessories is mainly on its decorative function, such as hair ornaments, hair ornaments, ornaments, jewelry and other strength.The images of characters are also reflected by the description of the wearing parts.People wearing accessories which is quite complicated with bright colors and popular decorations, which gives people a sense of brilliant color sleeve, show its individuality. Characters wear precious pieces of material to show their nobility. And people wearing cosmetic decoration on the forehead and fine hair, in line with the wealthy son of dress up, is noble young child’s image. And there was also the girl who liked to wear accessories of men, which is enough to show that she is not to stick at trifles with hearty character.Moreover, the attitude of the people to treat accessories can be a glimpse of their character. In addition, the accessories such as Baoyu, Jinsuo, unicorn is very important, foreshadowed in the plot of key point of the novel, being consistent with the development of the story.