The General Characteristics Of Chinese Minority Dress Culture

China is a unified multi-ethnic country.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, after serious scientific recognition, there are fifty-six nationalities in our country.

In addition, there are still communities of people waiting for further identification.

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It has undergone over two thousand years of differentiation or integration.

From the names of "Xia", "Rong", "Di", "Jing man", "Yi", "Pu Pu" and "Baiyue", which had already appeared in ancient Chinese classics, our country was already a multi-ethnic country before Qin Dynasty, and the establishment of the feudal autocratic system in Qin Dynasty made such a multi-ethnic country highly unified under the central government.

Therefore, the culture of all nationalities in China has a long history of development, including dress culture.

From the actual situation, the clothing culture of ethnic minorities in China has the following five general characteristics.

First, there are a wide variety of ethnic minorities in China, and the vast minority areas have long been inconvenient for pportation and difficult to communicate with each other. Therefore, national costumes are colorful.

55 ethnic minorities in China live in seventy percent counties in more than 2000 counties throughout the country.

Among these ethnic groups, some ethnic groups also have many branches. For example, Miao people are divided into five categories: Red seedling, black seedling, white seedling, green seedling and flower seedling. Among them, the seedlings include big head seedlings, unicorn seedlings, Mosa Nae, flower foot seedlings and so on, all of which are different.

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In this way, not only do different nationalities have different costumes, but they also have different costumes in the same ethnic group due to their different branches, so that the costumes of ethnic minorities in China are very rich.

The costume of ethnic minorities in China is very rich both in terms of material and color and in terms of style and distribution.

The 25 ethnic minorities in Yunnan province hold the National Arts Festival, and thousands of ethnic minority literary and artistic teams are thousands of ethnic minority costumes performing teams.

The Kunming folk song and dance ensemble, with the theme of "sun and moon wind and fire", is divided into four scenes, namely "spring glory", "Xia Yue melting", "autumn wind sending cool" and "winter fire raging". It shows three hundred sets of national costumes.

The short 1.5 hours show convincingly proves that Yunnan is not only the ocean of songs and dances, but also the ocean of ethnic costumes.

This is a microcosm of multi-ethnic China.

Second, due to the differences in the natural environment and ethnic customs and aesthetic tastes, Chinese ethnic costumes show great differences between the north and the south, the mountains and the grasslands, showing different styles and characteristics.

The natural conditions of China are very different from north to south. In the north, it is cold and snowy, and the forests and grasslands are broad. The minority nationalities in the north are mostly dependent on hunting pig breeding. The south is warm and rainy, and the mountains are interdependent.

Different natural environment, mode of production and way of life have created different national character and national mentality, and have also created different styles of dress and clothing.

Mongolia, Tibetan, Kazakhstan, Kirgiz, Tajik, Yugu, and other ethnic minorities living in plateau pasture and animal husbandry are mostly dressed in livestock fur. Clothing, trousers and cloths made of sheepskin are mostly light plates, and some are lined with colored cloth or fine fur on collar, cuffs, skirts and hem.

Tibetan and Kirgiz's gowns and skirts with precious fur border are graceful and thick.

Kazakh's "kupp" is used.

The overcoat is very light and warm.

The style of their costumes is wide robe, big sleeves and thick and solemn.

In the southern minority areas, it is suitable for planting linen seeds, and self woven linen and homespun are the main branches of dress.

The tools used are very simple, but the fabrics are exquisite and the patterns are beautiful.

Because of the hot and humid weather, it is necessary to open the chest and expose legs, and the dress is short, narrow and light. Its style is lively and varied, and it is different from each other.

In short, various styles and distinctive features make up another characteristic of Chinese minority dress culture.

Third, due to various historical, geographical, political and economic reasons, the Chinese minority nationalities are still at different stages of social development and corresponding productive forces until the middle of this century, and the differences brought about by them are very deep.

Due to various historical, geographical, political and economic reasons, some of the ethnic minorities in China have had obvious capitalist sprouting before liberation. Some of them still remain at the end of the primitive commune, showing the extremely unbalanced social development.

In this regard, Yunnan Province, which is called "a living history of social development" by ethnic scholars, can be regarded as a typical representative.

Before liberation, among the twenty-five ethnic minorities in Yunnan, the capitalist factors of Bai, Hui and some Yi ethnic groups had developed considerably; the vast Zhuang, Hani, Naxi, Bai, Yi and other ethnic groups had entered the feudal landlord system; the Dai people had entered the feudal feudal lord system; the Yi people in the small Liangshan were more typical slavery; and quite a few ethnic groups such as Kino, Brown, Jingpo, Dulong, anger, some Lisu and Wa people still remained at the end of the primitive commune.

In other provinces where ethnic minorities live in compact communities, this situation also exists in varying degrees, but not as complete and typical as Yunnan.

In this way, the cultural content reflected by ethnic costumes is also hierarchical.

At the same time, this hierarchy also determines the hierarchy of minority clothing culture.

Some people have a misunderstanding. It seems that all the special features of ethnic costumes are primitive. They are the concrete manifestation of primitive culture and are obviously not true.

According to the actual situation, we should make a detailed analysis of the hierarchy of minority costumes.

Fourth, Chinese ethnic costumes are facing the impact of social modernization and the requirements of reform. Some traditional costumes have changed.

The reform and opening up has brought great changes to the way of life of the whole nation. The development of commodity economy has injected vitality into the closed and backward mountainous areas of ethnic minorities, and has brought various information, including many modern fashion information.

Under such circumstances, the dress culture of Chinese ethnic minorities is facing a huge impact.

Because of the large number of materials, complex decoration, complex technology, difficult production, and inconvenient washing, some ethnic minority costumes have already been dressed in Han clothing, and some areas have not even seen national costumes.

In view of this situation, on the one hand, we should actively and urgently save the clothing resources of ethnic minorities, so as to avoid the disappearance of some distinctive ethnic costumes; at the same time, we should also actively, purposefully, organisily and systematically guide minority nationalities to carry out dress reform, organize some experts and scholars and fashion designers to design new national costumes on the basis of widely listening to the opinions of our people, and strive to be generous, beautiful, simple, and suitable for production and living under the premise of maintaining the basic characteristics of national decoration, so as to facilitate the production of large scale machinery in the future, so as to meet the needs of modernization construction.

It can be said that this is not only an urgent need to solve the problem of Chinese minority dress culture at this stage, but also a Chinese minority at this stage.

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