What Are The Taboos Of Chinese And Japanese Clothing

　　 Clothes & Accessories Originated from the need of human beings to avoid cold, insects, shame and beautify life, which beautifies self-consciousness and contains complex and profound content. Costume is beautiful, vivid, concrete and full of sensibility. Clothing not only expresses beauty, but also means to seek good luck. Both of them are included in the clothing purpose that human beings pray for, so hurting its purpose becomes taboo Chinese and Japanese clothing It is outstanding in performance. Of course, after the development of human beings into a class society, clothing also represents hierarchy and power.

The author believes that clothing has five elements: quality, shape, decoration, color and painting. Quality is clothing Nature of raw materials; Shape is the style of clothing; Color is the color of clothing; Ornament is an ornament worn; Paintings are patterns of clothing, including pictures on people, that is, tattoos.

From these two aspects, this article intends to talk about the clothing taboos of China and Japan, two neighbors separated by a strip of water, in order to deeply explore the characteristics of the clothing culture of the two countries.

1、 Taboos of clothing materials

Since the Zhou Dynasty, China has emphasized that the rule of the country should be based on propriety. The essence of propriety is "farewell", that is, to distinguish between men and women, monarchs and ministers, fathers and sons, and to distinguish between relatives, dignitaries and inferiors. Clothing is the most intuitive representation in people's daily communication, so it first becomes an important symbol of this difference. "Royal clothing and cloth clothing" are completely different grades, silk Ge Ma and Ge Ma are signs of poverty and wealth. For example, before the Manchu people entered the customs, the rich people of the Manchu nationality mostly wore linen clothes The poor can only wear clothes made of roe deer skin. After the Manchu people entered the customs, only the rich could afford to wear silk clothes, while the common people wore cloth clothes. "Yijie Cloth Clothes" has long become the special name of common people's clothing. In ancient China, curtains were not allowed cloth To make clothes. Because in the funeral, the memorial tablets and coffins of the dead should be covered with curtains.

In special cases, clothes are more exquisite. For example, the Han nationality gives the dead a shroud, which is mostly made of silk, but not satin. This is because "silk" and "thick son" have the same sound, which can bless the prosperity of descendants; "Satin" sounds the same as "broken son", which is suspected of killing children and eliminating grandchildren. The mourning clothes in ancient Japan were basically made of vine fiber. In modern Chinese and Japanese armies, the difference between officers and soldiers can be seen at a glance from the clothing. The quality of uniforms of officers at different levels also varies. For example, the winter uniforms of the officers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army from the second lieutenant to the general are basically the same color, and are all made of wool. The higher the rank, the higher the wool content of their uniforms. It is a taboo to use clothing materials with high wool content for military uniforms of lower level generals.

2、 Taboos of dress styles

In some areas of the Han nationality, it is forbidden to sew pockets on the clothes of newlyweds so as not to take away their parents' property and fortune. In addition, the dress should be cut from a whole piece of cloth, and it is forbidden to splice two pieces of cloth to show that "one ends in the same place". Among many ethnic minorities in China, there are more taboos on clothes. For example, different dresses can indicate whether a woman is married or not, which should not be confused. Uighur unmarried girls tie their hair into numerous small plaits, which are as fine as willows in spring. They do not break up the plaits until they get married and "open their faces". This is an important boundary between married and unmarried. According to the old Miao customs, unmarried men should put golden pheasant feathers on their heads, and unmarried women should string conch into beads and hang them on their necks as a sign. Taboos offend reason.

　　 Japan When people wear clothes, they cover their skirts to the right. When people are buried, they should cover their skirts to the left. Because in the underworld, which is completely opposite to the real world, the clothes of the dead should also be opposite to that of the human world. Therefore, the Japanese will not buy clothes that cover their skirts from the left, even if they are international famous brands. When getting married, if a Japanese bride wears a traditional kimono, she should not wear a feather knitting (jacket). Since women were forbidden to wear feather knitting in the Edo era, only geisha in Shenchuan were allowed to wear it later. Therefore, today's brides will never wear feather knitting at weddings. Committing taboos can lead to bad luck or lower status.

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