Comparison Of Chinese And Western Dress Culture

If Western costumes Culture pursues the beauty of human body deliberately, but completely ignores the ethics of dress. Then, because of the influence of traditional ethical values, Chinese dress culture still has some moral integrity. For example, the book of rites, Wang system, said: "making noises. "Qi Qi Qi" is suspected of killing people. "Yi Jie Ci" believes that "beginning to show sexual desire". Zuo Zhuan called "corruption as a prostitution". "Ci" is a Confucian scholar between Qin and Khan. Later, Zhao Feiyan, Liang Ji and his wife and so on in the costumes on the pursuit of strangeness and life of promiscuity, but also shows that "smelting and lust".

However, although Chinese traditional dress culture does not or rarely highlight the direct appreciation of human beauty, there are many descriptions of human beauty in some classical works. From the Book of Songs, Sao Fu to the novels and legends of Ming and Qing Dynasties, there are all kinds of descriptions, such as "muscles like snow and waist as bundles". "Skin is as fat as a fish", "more than a man". Clothes & Accessories The image of beauty that is composed together; "I embroidered pots and skirts, and I have four or five things to do; I am walking on tiptoe, my head is covered with tortoise shells, and my waist is flowing wide. My ears are shining on the moon. I mean, if I cut the root of the onion, my mouth will be like pearl, and I will be fine." "Ancient poetry for Jiao Zhongqing's wife" "new weather in March 3rd, Changan waterside beautiful people. The state is thick and sweet, and the texture is exquisite. Embroidered robes enjoy the late spring, the Golden Peacock silver unicorn. What is there on the head? What do you see behind you? Maybe someone will take the cheongsam in modern women's clothing as an example to prove that Chinese women's clothing also focuses on the natural beauty of the human body.

In fact, the cheongsam was influenced by the Western costume aesthetic taste in the first half of this century, until the Guangxu period. cheongsam It's not the way it is now. The traditional cheongsam is completely different from Western women's clothing in the shoulders, chest, waist, arms and buttocks. Different from Western costume art, Chinese costume art is not to highlight the beauty of human body, but to fully mobilize artistic modeling and other means to pursue a decorative beauty, that is, a spiritual space beyond form. Judging from the style of clothing before Qing Dynasty, it is the mainstream of Chinese traditional costume to hide the body's wide embrace of big oil. Even though some people are very beautiful, this garment does not show this beautiful shape. Zi Zhi Tong Jian quoted Xiao He as saying: "the son of heaven is everywhere in the sea, not strong but not beautiful." from this perspective, we can see why Chinese ancient emperors' tuxedo with wide sleeves and big sleeves should understand why they do not express the beauty of the emperor's body. Instead, they focus on expressing their spirit and highlighting their dignified and dignified spiritual strength. Qu Yuan said in the "river crossing": "Yu is so good that this year is both old and unfailing, with the long and thin land, and the crown of Cui Wei." He shows his cynicism and his attitude and feelings without dressing up with his own clothes.

The difference between the visual beauty of Western clothing and the beauty of human body decoration reflects the difference of the value orientations of the two cultures. Lin Yutang once pointed out: "the difference between Chinese and Western clothing philosophy is that the suit is intended to represent the human body, while the Chinese dress is intended to cover it." "Art of life" Lessing said, "I admit that clothes also have a kind of beauty, but what is the beauty of clothes compared with the beauty of human body?" from "Western aesthetically speaking beauty and aesthetic feeling", while Lin Yutang holds the opposite view: "only in a society without aesthetic feeling can we live in a suit." The style of the suit is so that pedestrians on the street will know that your waist is thirty-two inches or thirty-eight inches... The forty year old woman, who is usually fat enough to wear the evening dress of her father's chest and her back dress, went to the public performance at the opening night of the opera. This is also one of the dazzling things of Western invention. Art of life

However, due to the lack of religious beliefs in Chinese dress culture, it is difficult to resist the erosion of Western costumes and aesthetic values. Modern cheongsam and modern urban women twist the four body clothing to prove this. There is a Chinese saying: "wear clothes and wear caps." This shows that Chinese clothing culture lacks ethical constraints to a certain extent.

Of course, Western clothing also absorbs some characteristics of Chinese traditional dress. For example, when Chinese modern clothing adopts the western style women's shoulders, the western style adopts the vertical collar of Chinese cheongsam, but the Western absorption and reference of Chinese traditional dress features are very few after all. The aesthetic values of Chinese traditional dress can not be changed or replaced by the aesthetic stereotype of Westerners, and Western costume culture has formed a strong shock wave on Chinese traditional dress culture. Chinese people seem to be unconsciously facing the alienation of clothing.

One of the most striking features of Chinese and western contemporary and modern costumes is that fashion styles are constantly renovating, pursuing brands and eliminating them at high speed, thus bringing huge waste to economic resources. This contrasts sharply with the anti lavish Islamic dress ethics. Looking through the fashion magazines of Western and Chinese countries in the past twenty years, it is easy to find that the average life expectancy of many clothing styles is only three to six months, or even shorter. Take the style of skirt as an example, in 1970s, there were "mean skirts", "dense skirts", "tight folding skirts", "open skirts", "stacked skirts" and "classical skirts".

Many fashion designers launch many new styles of clothing every year. They constantly stimulate people's other desires while constantly stimulating clothing styles and high consumption. According to foreign information, Diana, Princess of England, was ashamed and embarrassed to learn that she was listed as the top ten worst dressed women in 1983. Even many of the British people also prayed for her. This case is very ironic. It shows that clothing has already surpassed the ordinary people. It is very clear that clothing is not only practical and decorative, but more importantly, it has the function and significance of reflecting the lofty spiritual realm of human belief.

While Chinese and Western dress culture regards dress art as clothing The first principle of design is that the former emphasizes decorative art while the latter emphasizes human art. The moderating effect of ethics on costume design and production has been weakened or abandoned in varying degrees. Even the consumption standards and aesthetic standards of British members. This situation, as Joe wieno pondno once pointed out, "we see the costume changing like this every day. The clothes that we thought satisfied four months ago are out of date today and rejected. This unruly way can only be condemned and can not be banned. " Although "the monarchy" has never played a leading role in the traditional Chinese costume culture despite its extravagant and wasteful pursuit of novelty effect, many people of insight have a warning against it. For example, Mo-tse once said, "for the law of clothing, in winter, silk is enough to be light and warm." Therefore, saints are clothes, body and skin. The Lord of today is clothes. Cast gold is a hook, bead jade think, female worker's composition, male work engraved, think of body clothing. This is not a warm feeling of clouds, but also a labour of money. In view of this, clothes are not good for the body but good for the body. It is difficult to cure people because of their secluded nature, but their monarch is extravagant and difficult to admonish. Mo-tse's words "Mo-tse's words" is so pertinent and brilliant, but it is still being criticized.

In addition, some fashion designers today purport to pursue some fantastic and fantastic visual effects. For example, "beggars" once popular in western countries and Japan, people deliberately break their clothes, drag them all over the East, hang them in the west, and even make them look like clothes. Or use old dirty cloth to make.

Women disguise themselves as men's clothing, which is more common in modern Chinese and Western costumes. In the street, we often see the so-called "fake boy" dressed in men's clothing and the glamorous man who wears a gold ring around his head. Some clothing seems to have been influenced by the Western Feminist Trend of thought. It intends to eliminate the differences between the sexes and advocate the so-called "neutral dress" or "dress neutralization".