Chinese Dressing Culture IV

Previously we have introduced something about Chinese Dressing Culture, and today we are delighted to present you Chinese Dressing Culture in pattern with the help of the information from Chinese language skills.

“Pattern” came from Japan in the 1870s; mainly refers to something like the decoration, and the shape of “design”. Chinese language reading has it that for Chinese, the value of wearing clothes is showing the beauty of the clothing itself in order to cover and replace the beauty of human body rather than directly show the beauty of human body. With the information from Mandarin han-bridge, about the way of wearing clothes, they want to show one's social status with great tendency. Therefore, the Chinese do not think that the beauty of clothing means the shape or structure; it means to lay out for patterns and the processes of all kinds of decorative embellishment. In the ancient times, our ancestors used the picture of sun, moon, star, dragon and so on to reflect their social status, and no matter what dynasty, Chinese clothing has always described the dragon and embroidered phoenix on the clothes as much as possible, and still focuses on the cardigan, collar, sleeves and other parts of the clothing with little reform and innovation of the style of the clothes. People are also good at using patterns on their clothes to show their auspicious wishes. Meanwhile, there is a wide range of the using of auspicious patterns since ancient time. For instance, the use of dragon and phoenix which not only is a worship to totem, but also expresses the emotions to “Dragon” and reflects the people's hope to a happy life.

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