Study On The Aesthetic Connotations Of Herbal Patterns On Pure Silk Fabrics In The Song Dynasty

A herbal pattern is a manmade design with the elements of flowers,branches,vines,leaves and fruits.Among all the ancient Chinese patterns on pure silk fabrics,the herbal pattern is the most typical representative.Before the Song Dynasty,the herbal pattern served as a foil to other patterns.However,during the Song Dynasty,with the rapid development of culture,economy and technology,this kind of pattern gradually became mature and began to play a dominant role in the field of silk fashion design.As an aesthetic symbolization,the silk herbal pattern in the Song Dynasty reflects not only the unique aesthetic orientation,but also the spiritual features of that time.Since the emperors of the Song Dynasty emphasized civil administration at the expense of national military defense,the cultural atmosphere at that time was very strong.In that sense,people's preference to Chinese painting made a great impact on the development of silk herbal patterns.As a consequence,most of them show characteristic aesthetic features of flexibility and stabilization,and revolve around the beauty of artistic conception.The thesis illustrates aesthetic connotations of the silk herbal patterns in the Song Dynasty by the cases of the most typical representatives.First,it introduces the special part that the silk herbal patterns in the Song Dynasty played in the historical inheritance of the ancient Chinese silk herbal patterns,and the cultural ecology of the silk herbal patterns in the Song Dynasty.Second,it analyses their aesthetic features.Third,it reveals the design concepts and the cultural connotations that lies behind them.At last,it summarizes main research results and draws conclusions.Against the background that the elegant artistic style was very popular,the silk herbal patterns in the Song Dynasty formed a delicate aesthetic feature on the basis of inheriting former patterns of the same kind.Their aesthetic value is the second to none.By means of studying the aesthetic connotations of the Song silk herbal patterns deeply,we can get a good knowledge of traditional artistic spirit of the Song Dynasty silk patterns and apply the analysis results to modem fashion design.This is the main significance of the thesis.