Visiting The Chinese Costume Museum: Intangible Cultural Heritage Costumes "Wear" For Thousands Of Years

The picture shows the fish skin clothing displayed in the Clothing Museum. Photographed by Xu Mengwen

The Hezhe logo "fish skin clothing" is handmade with exquisite tanning techniques. The body of the fish skin clothing is mostly made of several pieces of light colored fish skin, and the edges of the clothing are sewn with clothing patterns such as cloud patterns, flower and grass patterns, and fish scale patterns

Recently, the reporter walked into the Chinese Costume Museum located in Jiangxi Institute of Fashion Technology, Nanchang County, Nanchang City. Each piece of collection presents the history of the development of Chinese ancient and modern costumes. The exquisite craftsmanship and profound connotation are amazing.

It is understood that the museum is independently organized by Jiangxi Institute of Fashion Technology. At present, the exhibition hall has an area of more than 4500 square meters. It has a collection of more than 10000 pieces of clothing, jewelry, fabrics, batiks, embroidery, textile devices and materials of different times in China. For example, the crown dress of the Zhou Dynasty emperor, the Hezhe fish skin dress, the She phoenix crown... The museum has a collection of costumes with distinctive features.

The picture shows Miao silver ornaments displayed in the Clothing Museum. Photographed by Xu Mengwen

China is known as the "country of dress and etiquette", and has a splendid history of clothing. The reporter noticed that on the Chinese social platform, the cross dressing of national costumes is quite popular. Netizens, accompanied by music, raised their hands to complete the transformation from regular clothes to traditional national costumes, which makes people look bright and the bright national costume culture is again eye-catching.

The Hezhe people have recorded in the Book of Mountains and Seas that "the country of Xuangu is in the north, and it is eaten by people.". The "fish skin clothing" is the most distinctive and striking clothing among Hezhen's national costumes. It has a unique shape, simple and elegant, and has national characteristics. It is the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

Sun Chengfei, deputy curator of the Clothing Museum of Jiangxi Institute of Fashion Technology, said that fish skin clothing is made of dozens of pieces of fish skin, which is the traditional clothing of Hezhe people, mainly including long shirts, short clothes, pants, shoes and bags, and is waterproof, lightweight, wear-resistant and other characteristics. "Such clothes are convenient for them to engage in fishing and hunting."

The reporter learned that in addition to the three exhibition areas of Chinese ancient costumes, ethnic costumes and works of Chinese contemporary design masters, the museum also has special exhibition areas such as Miao silver decoration area, cheongsam area, embroidery area, plant dye area and textile machinery area, providing visitors with a historical scene that can be seen and touched, as well as teaching Scientific research and foreign exchange activities provide professional resources.

The picture shows the embroidered clothes displayed in the Clothing Museum. Photographed by Xu Mengwen

"The clothing museum has outstanding intangible cultural heritage characteristics." Sun Chengfei said that the museum has a lot of intangible clothing culture. "All kinds of exquisite silver ornaments of Miao nationality and handicrafts of other ethnic minorities are very distinctive in clothing culture."

The reporter saw in the unique She nationality wedding scene exhibition area that the She nationality bride wore a phoenix crown and a phoenix dress, which were beautiful in shape and colorful, and many other exquisite She nationality costumes and accessories such as ribbons were displayed nearby.

Sun Chengfei introduced that she costumes are famous for their simplicity, elegance, practicality and beauty, and have a strong national flavor. Among them, colored ribbons are traditional handicrafts of the She nationality that have been handed down for a long time. They can not only tie clothes, decorate, but also serve as love tokens.

Tang Xinqiang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Jiangxi Institute of Fashion Technology, said that he hoped that through the construction of clothing civilization, students would have a deeper understanding of China's long-standing clothing civilization, so as to build their cultural self-confidence. In the future, we also hope to let Chinese clothing radiate its bright light in the world.

(Source: China News Network)