Comparison Of Chinese And Western Dress Culture

Chinese people began to use animal fiber such as GE, linen, ramie and other animal fibers for weaving very early. And seven thousand years ago, they began to raise silkworms and weave silk.

Ancient Egypt was mainly flax culture, and the two rivers were mainly wool culture, and India was the cradle of cotton culture.

Ancient Greece and ancient Rome inherited the ancient civilization of the Mediterranean coast in the aspect of clothing, that is, flax culture and wool culture.

Chinese people attach great importance to the social ethical function of clothing.

The rulers of the past dynasties attached great importance to the idea of using clothes to unify people's minds, and repeatedly revised the dress system in order to standardize the behavior of all strata and to "rule the country and make peace".

In the west, the effect of "Ming up and down" is not very obvious because of the various countries. Although the feudal era has introduced various kinds of dress prohibitions, most of them are some luxury prohibitions, few of them attach importance to the social ethical function of clothing like Chinese, while more attention is paid to the wealth value and aesthetic function of costume.

(three) different dressing concepts

Li is the norm of the universe order and social order in the Confucian mind.

Confucians attach importance to dress beauty and attach importance to the beauty of qualification.

Dong Zhongshu, a great scholar in the Western Han Dynasty, said: "the quality is two, and then the ceremony is made.

We must not be prepared but biased, rather than quality.

The oldest and most important category in ancient Chinese philosophy is "Tao".

In the book of Zhouyi, it is said: "one Yin and one Yang is the way."

Laozi explained the contradiction in the evolution of all things by "all things are negative and embracing Yang", which is formed by two opposing things.

In the Chinese humanistic philosophy system, the ideal personality is based on "ritual", and enters the highest realm of "harmony between man and nature" through the idea of "Virtue" and "Yin Yang and five elements".

Similarly, the Chinese traditional dress system, which is based on all the principles of "ritual", can make the philosophy and ideology of clothing reflect the spirit of heaven and earth, so as to achieve the ideal personality realm of harmony between man and nature.

Different dressing concepts

Western culture originated from ancient Greek culture. The Greeks used to envisage that heaven is a pure and eternal idea. Life is nothing but its rough and deformed reflection.

Christianity, which emerged in the late Rome, has deepened the antagonism between heaven and earth, between the eternal soul of reason and the body that is destined to disappear, and between the spirit of creation and the stone of vegetation.

The humanistic ideas put forward in the Renaissance made people pay more attention to the body, which is manifested in the modification and exaggeration of human characteristics.

On the other hand, the taste of contemporary art is related to the trend of thought at that time, so it often echoes with the dress.

(four) different ways of dressing

Chinese: under the top of the coat, open front and close together, use the tape, and wear it conveniently.

West: it has a complex set of dressing skills, and the western style is also very developed in western countries.

(five) different vicissitudes

The Chinese people were passive, after the impact of the western culture and with the process of anti imperialism, anti feudalism and modernization in the twentieth Century, after the impact of western culture, the Chinese people took the initiative to accept the western fashion culture and "integrate with the international", and formed the modern "international".

Culture.

XI: from the ancient "coat" to the "narrow clothing" culture after the Renaissance from the middle ages.

In the twentieth Century, the Westerners expanded outwardly through the colonial movement, spread the Western narrow culture in the world, and were also impacted by other cultures of the world, especially the impact of the straight-line tailored culture from the East, so the pursuit of "non structural pursuit" - deconstruction tendency appeared.