Chapter 156: The Beauty of Gorgeous Costumes

China has great etiquette, so it is called summer, and there is the beauty of Chinese costumes, which is called Hua. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The Chinese people are based on the beauty of their costumes, and the summer is based on the vast territory, cultural prosperity, and prosperity of etiquette and morality.

The Chinese character itself is extremely luxurious, and the meaning of beauty also confirms the gorgeous beauty of China's 5,000-year-old history.

Every culture of Chinese civilization is closely related to 'beauty'.

Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has pursued beauty.

The beauty of Chinese architecture is grand and solemn, and it shocks ancient and modern China and foreign countries.

The beauty of Chinese poetry is magnificent and touching.

The beauty of Chinese art is like a dragon, and it is like a dragon.

For beauty, since ancient times, China has been at the forefront of the world, from the prehistoric unearthed exquisite cultural relics, calligraphy and paintings, tablets can be seen.

Among them, since Hua refers to Chinese clothing, we cannot but talk about the traditional clothing of the Chinese nation, that is, Hanfu.

Hanfu here does not refer to the traditional costumes of the Han nation, but the general term for the development of traditional costumes of the entire Chinese family.

Hanfu began with the Yellow Emperor, the crown clothing, qualitative in the Zhou Dynasty, and through the four books and five classics to complete the entire Hanfu clothing crown system, the emperors of all dynasties have inherited the Han clothing crown as a national event.

In the "Twenty-four History", it is recorded that "the Yellow Emperor, Yao, and Shun hang their clothes and rule the world, and the benefits are taken from Qiankun", which means that the shape of the top and bottom is determined by the will of heaven and is sacred, so Huaxia has a high respect for clothes, not just a piece of shameful clothing.

Although the wars and turmoil in ancient times have caused Hanfu to suffer different degrees of blows and improvements, they all end up in the same way and integrate into the big family of Chinese Hanfu, which is used to express the beauty of Hanfu's luxurious and solemn etiquette.

In the early days, Hanfu was distinguished by the six suits of the Son of Heaven, the six suits of the queen, and the six suits of the princes.

Among them, the six suits of the Son of Heaven and the six suits of the queen represent the number of the twelve heavenly stems, the former represents the heavenly stems, the sun, the moon and the stars, and the latter represents the five elements of earth, fire, earth, gold and water.

Qian represents men in Chinese culture.

Kun represents women in Chinese culture.

These six costumes also formulated the complementarity of Chinese clothing, the clothing system and the deep clothing system.

After the Zhou Dynasty, there were courtiers, and there were scholars' clothes, Confucian clothes, pragmatic clothes, and sword clothes.

These forms laid the foundation of the patriarchal cultural background of ancient China, each of which represents the core moral composition of the Four Books and Five Classics and the subset of the classics and history, and these costumes have a specific meaning on each occasion, some represent auspicious rites, some represent funeral rites, as well as guest rites, military salutes, Jia rites and so on.

However, for thousands of years, no matter how Hanfu is improved, it will follow a benchmark law, that is, it is light and easy, and pays attention to the unity of nature and man.

The unity of heaven and man, this is a unique way of thinking belonging to the Chinese nation, which is different from the way of thinking of any nation in the world, and it is a way of thinking that truly belongs to China.

Roughly speaking, the unity of heaven and man means that the material world is in absolute motion, and thinking reflects existence, so thinking should also be constantly changing and advancing with the times. There is harmony between matter and man and between matter.

The thinking of the Chinese nation has never been rigid, not stubborn, and it is the essence of the thinking of the Chinese nation to know the people according to the destiny of heaven.

The unity of heaven and man is also an important future in Chinese philosophy, and countless philosophies and religious scholars at home and abroad have been exploring this philosophy since ancient times.

The biggest difference between Hanfu and Western clothing is that Hanfu is flat cutting, while porridge clothing is mostly three-dimensional cutting.

This is also the fundamental difference between Chinese and Western ways of thinking.

Plane cutting represents the Chinese thinking, the unity of nature and man, a piece of fabric, in keeping its original appearance on the cutting and molding, because the Chinese thinking of what world is constantly changing, but will always return to the origin, and human beings to do is to neutralize, and then do not hurt the fabric to the fundamental extent, to neutralize to achieve a kind of neutralization of beauty.

However, the Western thinking is that how to cut a piece of fabric is fabric, as long as it can be made into clothes, so three-dimensional tailoring always cuts the fabric into many pieces to fit the human body itself, to achieve a slightly rigid, fixed beauty.

The neutrality of the Oriental people is always kind and tolerant, while the rigidity of the Westerners is clear from right and wrong, and the unity has not changed.

Therefore, Hanfu seems to be a little bloated, in order to take care of the future development of the human body, it is possible to gain weight or become thinner.

The slimming and fixation of Western clothing is for the sake of looking good at a stage at that time, without considering the factors that may change in the human body.

There is no high or low distinction between these two, they are the same, but in different ways.

However, recently, because Western-style cultural thinking has become the mainstream in the world, the entire aesthetic trend has become Western, and the unity of nature and man in China has been labeled as 'feudal', 'bloated', 'complicated' and other discriminatory labels.

In fact, in essence, whether it is three-dimensional cropping or flat tailoring, it is a kind of tailoring, there is no fundamental difference, it is just a choice of human beings, and there should be no expression of 'backwardness'.

After all, human aesthetics is a matter of feng shui in turn, and looking back at the popular clothes of hundreds of years ago, it may be the clothes that people wear now.

But I have to say that the current aesthetic discrimination has brought great obstacles and troubles to Hanfu, so that the whole of China can not come up with a clothing that represents national characteristics in the world.

However, this is not the most important, the more important thing is like opera, today's young people do not have a correct understanding of Hanfu, and regard Hanfu as Dongying kimono, Goryeo Hanbok and even ancient costume costumes, and directly classify Hanfu into the eliminated batch of costumes, and there is a very serious discrimination vision.

This is not right, as long as it is clothes, it is used to cover shame, as long as it can cover shame, it is a good dress, you should not laugh at the old-fashioned or other things that others wear, such ridicule will seem, very ignorant and impolite.

However, this is not a problem for young people now, it is true that the basic education of the entire Dragon Kingdom does not have a correct guidance for traditional costumes and traditional culture, and most children have a TV series as the source of Hanfu.

This is indeed a kind of 'inaction' attack on traditional culture.

But even so, there are countless people in the land of China who are still adhering to the inheritance and development of traditional clothing, just like Jin Wensheng's insistence on storytelling.

The beauty of Chinese clothing is inseparable from the word 'silk'.

It can be called the oldest commercial path of international trade, which is named after silk, which shows how serious the influence of Chinese silk on foreign exports at that time was, and it is also because of this Silk Road that China and European countries have had great cultural exchanges and development in the early years.

Chinese people raised silkworms from the Yellow Emperor period more than 4,000 years ago, one of the Yellow Emperor's wife (lei) mother invented silkworm raising, history also called the first silkworm Niangniang.

The mother is the world's earliest inventor of silkworm, the invention of silk textile not only created an immortal beauty to China, but also brought blessings to the whole world.

And the concubine mother is also the first queen of the world, she gave birth to two sons with the emperor, the eldest son's son is one of the three emperors and five emperors, the emperor Yu (ku) the great, the second son married the Shushan clan, gave birth to Gao Yang, that is, one of the five emperors Zhuan, Xu the Great.

In addition to these, the concubine mother is also one of the founders of Chinese civilization, she taught women silkworm weaving, clothing, and teaching children in a good way, there are two descendants of the emperor, and she is also a negotiator, after the Yellow Emperor unified China, there is an inner wheel, the concubine mother is endeavoured and powerful, and the heart has collapsed many battles, which can be called a military expert.

In the end, she was also the initiator of the advocacy of dual marriage, in ancient times, human beings did not have the concept of marriage, and the concubine was the first woman to initiate the concept of marriage, and she was a pioneer in politics, military and scientific inventions.

As the origin country of the world's silk culture, in addition to raising silkworms and spinning silk and making clothes, another Chinese culture has made a legacy for the beauty of Chinese clothing.

That is embroidery, known as needle embroidery in ancient times, in which various totemic patterns are sewn with silk threads on the prevention of cloth or animal skins.

Embroidery originated in China, when the Chinese people believed in totem culture, so there were tattoos, tattoos and other decorations, and later textiles, people used this technology in clothing, so as to avoid the pain of skin and flesh.

At first, embroidery was used for totemic culture, as well as ceremonial clothing patterns, and later gradually became decorative arts.

It is recorded in the "Book of Shang" that more than 4,000 years ago, the Zhou Dynasty had an official position specializing in embroidery, and there were already regulations on 'clothes painting and embroidery', and then embroidered various prescribed patterns on each form of Hanfu.

Later, in the Qin Dynasty, embroidery had cinnabar dyed silk, and the embroidery again changed from the original monochrome pattern to multi-color painting, and also had the initial prototype of color embroidery.

Modern embroidery has a special place in the history of art.

There are many records and legends about embroidery, among which Sun Quan's wife embroidered the "Topography of Mountains and Rivers" during the Three Kingdoms period, and Lu Meiniang embroidered the "Lotus Sutra" on silk cloth in the Tang Dynasty is famous all over the world.

Embroidery as a culture with the Hanfu, is naturally closely related to the Chinese civilization, embroidery of each pattern, is a very rigorous geometric figures, the use of plants, birds and beasts, dragon patterns, animal patterns and other allegorical patterns, in the realistic technique of the fusion of traditional freehand beauty, adding a kind of mystery and fairy atmosphere.

At present, the earliest embroidery unearthed in China is the two pieces of Chu tombs in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the embroidery technology at that time is not weaker than now, the color is elegant, the lines are smooth, and the Han Dynasty as a peak period of culture, more unearthed embroidery cultural relics are in the Dunhuang Grottoes.