The Study On The Description Of Costumes In The Book Of Songs

Clothing from the date of its birth, it contains the dominant meaning of culture, reflecting the social, human, geographical, economic and other aspects of the situation. The Book of Songs as China's first collection of classical poetry, in addition to know the name of the birds and animals, the clothing name is a major feature. A lot of clothing description reflect the close ties of Western Zhou Dynasty early clothing and social culture . In addition, the description of clothing, displaying the complex image of the characters, but also conveying the beautiful feelings. Therefore, this article mainly related to the relationship between dress and literature, from the perspective of the description to understand the Zhou Dynasty people's life form, aesthetic requirements and value judgments and so on.This text launches from five parts. The introduction mainly discusses the value and method of the study of the dress in the Book of Songs, and makes a detailed definition of the study of "dress" and a brief review of the previous academic research.The first chapter mainly introduces the specific outline of the dress, that is, from the shape, color and pattern of three parts to clarify the Book of Songs, in order to clarify the scope of the article.The second chapter is mainly from the description of the regional characteristics and description of the way to explore. The fifteen national songs, whether from the represent of the region, or from the content, all reflect a strong regional cultural color. So the regional characteristics will focus on different geographical environment and customs to description of the different characteristics of clothing. Literature is a description of the art, the Book of Songs as a treasure of our cultural heritage, the description also has artistic effect.The third chapter mainly introduces the literary function and the cultural function of the dress in the Book of Songs. The function of literature is to be discussed from three aspects: symbolic function, lyrical function and beauty thorn function. Cultural functions mainly for the ritual function, ”ritual music” culture plays an important role in the Zhou Dynasty, and clothing as the realization of "Zhou" important media and manifestations, naturally has a great association with “ritual music”,so the section use the text interpretation and historical literature combined approach, one by one to introduce the various instruments under the performance of the different functions.The fourth chapter mainly compare the dress in the Book of Songs with the other literary works. The clothing of Chu Ci shows a kind of vanilla beauty, that connection the Qu Yuan's personality .And the clothing of Han Yue Fu is more to show a kind of entertainment and aesthetic tendencies. But the clothing of the Book of Songs is a simple beauty, and which more connect the person's identity, status, grade and other special significance. So the analyze mainly from here to explore the unique cultural implication in the Book of Songs.