China has five thousand years of history, the development of Chinese
history is the same strain with its dress culture. Clothes and people‘s daily
lives, reflected the characteristics and development. Now, let me take you to
walk together into the world of Chinese clothing culture, experiencing the
unique cultural charm.
Timeline of dynasties:
Xia dynasty： 2070 B.C——1600 B.C
Xia dynasty： 2070 B.C——1600 B.C
Shang dynasty： 1600 B.C——1046 B.C
Zhou dynasty： 1046 B.C—— 221 B.C
Qin dynasty： 221B.C——206 B.C
1.
Xia dynasty
Xia is the first dynasty in our history .So
the dress is full of distinctive religious color. Xia established the
institution that people worn clothes on upper--body and skirt(worn in ancient
China) on down. Among them the clothes represent the heaven and the skirt
represents the earth.
The main dress materials of Shang dynasty is
fur, leather, silk and hemp. Owing to the progress of textile technology, the
silk linen content occupies an important position. People in Shang can weave
the extremely thin satin subtly, and the clothing made by this kind of material
is dignified.
3.
Zhou dynasty
In the early Western Zhou Dynasty, mulberry
planting and silkworm rearing begin to catch on among the people in the central
Shaanxi plain. There were lots of poems in the Book of Songs describing
farming, silkworm raising and weaving, such as the poems depicting farm women
in the central Shaanxi plain cutting branches with an axe for sprout rearing.
This jade silkworm is presumably a ritual object of the Zhou Dynasty.
Due
to the unification China, dressing styles in the Qin Dynasty (221-206BC) were
somewhat consistent. However, as the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty was in
power for too short a period, the dress code was just primarily established
with only the colors of costume being unified. Black was the worshipful color
during the Qin Dynasty and was a fashionable color for costume of the time.
In
China, women had different kinds of clothes in ancient times. Those clothes
changed with the revolution of dynasties. Next week, we will introduce
another dynasties to you.
