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Special Exhibition of Silk Road Costume Culture
Wu Dao cut color sewing dance clothes, bright makeup dress to win the Spring Hui.
Whether it is plainclothes for daily travel or dignified Chinese clothes in the grand ceremony, as the first of the "food, clothing, housing and travel", "clothing" is not only the best material for people to show their own style, but also a direct embodiment of the social etiquette system. In modern society, we talk about fashion and fashion, but we don't know that fashion is a circle, and today's popular style may have led the way a thousand years ago.
In the upcoming opening of the Chengdu Museum's "Yunxiang Clothing - Silk Road Costume Culture Special Exhibition", a number of Chinese costumes have been unveiled together over the millennia, which may be similar to what you are wearing!
Leopard print
Cultural convergence is a vibrant one
In the last century, American fashion designers introduced leopard print elements to the fashion industry, which was a global sensation. In fact, in ancient times, people have long used their fur to protect themselves from the cold by hunting wild animals. In this exhibition, there is a Tang Dynasty painted black figurine that is particularly eye-catching.
This terracotta figurine has a typical extraterritorial style, wearing fashionable and bright leopard skin pants, wearing an orange scarf on the head, hair draped down to the neck, the ends of the hair are rolled up, wearing a light yellow round neck tight-sleeved short shirt, black boots on the feet, the posture is pleasant and open.
We can imagine that in the powerful and open Tang Dynasty, the emissaries, merchants and missionaries from afar brought multiculturalism, and behind the competition of costume culture, there was the vitality of civilization continuously blending and developing.
Painted black figurines Don
Gyeongseong Prefectural Museum
Dyeing
Ancient craftsmanship dyes unique textures
Tie-dye, known as valerian and stranding in ancient times, is a traditional and unique dyeing process in China. People tie or tie clothes partially when dying, and then immerse them in dye, so that the bound places cannot be colored, thus forming different printing effects. The sparse pattern is called deer valerian or agate valerian; the fine pattern is called caviar or dragon valerian. There are also relatively simple small clusters of patterns such as butterflies, plums, begonias, etc. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the fabrics dyed by hanging valerians were mostly used in women's clothing.
Jin Tao Yuanming once described in the "Afterword of searching for god": "Huainan Chen clan planted beans in the field, and suddenly saw two women, with a very beautiful posture, wearing a purple valerian, a green skirt, and the rain was rainy and the clothes were not wet." ”
The purple valerian described in the book can be seen in this exhibition. This garment looks simple, but it hides a mystery. The cuffs are wide, the neckline meets the bodice, and there is a red triangle seam decoration. There are also patchwork strips of cloth at the junction of the body and the sleeves. The near waist is divided into two pieces, on which is purple valerian silk, and its tie-dye valerian point is in the shape of a square frame, which is very rare to preserve such a complete hanging valerian.
Purple Valerian Former Qin
Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
Contrast
Lively jumps light up the visuals
Contrast is one of the most popular elements in fashion today. The so-called "contrast" is to juxtapose two or more contrasting color blocks to create an impact on the vision.
In the exhibition, a "crimson green skirt" from the Former Qin Dynasty adopts this style. The skirt has two colors, blue and crimson, a total of six pieces and wrong, using "red with green", which is recognized as a high-grade complementary color match. The skirt has a tie and wears it around the waist. This skirt, known as the "pleated skirt" at the time, was made by jumping color stitching between skirts, and was very popular during the Wei and Jin Dynasties.
Crimson skirt Former Qin
The sense of "fashion" we are pursuing today is not rootless, it is really rooted in our clothing traditions and national art. It is also thanks to this that the "circle" of fashion can be successfully fastened.
A variety of costumes accompany people through each day, from skirts to pants, from shawls to silk scarves, from wide robes to narrow sleeves... From ancient times to the present, people's examination, thinking, creation and recourse to beauty have never stopped.
With the "Yunxiang Clothing - Silk Road Costume Culture Special Exhibition", let us connect the aesthetic appeals of ancient and modern times in this new spring, and deeply understand the kingdom of clothing and crown rooted in Chinese civilization.
Based on Chengdu Expo world
Chengdu Museum
Text: Wu Limit
Editor: Tang Lanxin
Proofreader: Wei Min, Wang Li
Reviewer: Huang Xiaofeng
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