Chinese Fashion Designs Part II
June 10, 2010
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It is said that Chinese traditional culture believes in the unification of body and soul. This deep significance is reflected in their fantastic clothing fashions designs and its always carefully prepared appearance, being this one of the most intriguing elements of their culture; its dress sense. No doubt these people have paid great attention to their attire throughout their extended history.
At school we were told that folk customs reflect the life habits and customs of the people, as well as ideologies and beliefs, reflecting them in their social activities, their likes fashions. Since New Stone Age folk arts have taken shape and prospered in all societies and all areas, in several regions of the world. Of course, the longer the history of a nation is, results in the richer its folk customs and the deeper their roots influence the inhabitants. In fact the development of folk arts and the spread of national heritage go hand in hand. That was what happened with China.
Searching about Chinese history I found that China's ancient civilization is one of the few ones with independent origins and in addition to this it is the only unbroken civilization in human history. It's fascinating, isn't it?. So that, obviously, because of this so vastly and long time extended history, Chinese culture fashion designs have undergone a great deal of changes, due to different politic, economic and even socio-psychological and emotional situations.
In order to understand about how much time we are talking about let me share with you the following data I obtained in Wikipedia.
Extremely early in Chinese civilization, archaeologists found pieces of 18,000 year-old artifacts such as stone ornaments, little jewels made with shells with holes bored in them which served as a proof of the use of ornamentation and bone sewing needles attesting the existence of sewing, and obviously clothing.
There are evidences demonstrating that before the Neolithic period the production of silk, for which China is famous, had already begun in Northern China. A Chinese legend gives the title Goddess of Silk to Lady Hsi-Ling-Shih, wife of the mythical Yellow Emperor, who was said to have ruled China in about 3000 BC. She is credited with the introduction of silkworm rearing and the invention of the loom. The fact is that about 4500 years ago a great variety and consistency in clothing, ancient fashion designs were roughly established by the era of the Yellow Emperor and the Emperors Yao
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