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Fashion is transient, but identity is timeless
Fashion is transient, but identity is timeless
Clothes made from fish skin and skirts covered with silver ornaments are among the items on display at the “Timeless Style of Chinese Ethnic Attire” exhibition at the China Craft and Art Museum in Hangzhou.To get more Hangzhou news, you can visit shine news official website.
The exhibition, with its “Tradition and Present, Old and New” theme, is organized by the Chinese National Museum of Ethnology. It has visited Beijing and the Ningxia Hui and Guangxi Zhuang autonomous regions. Hangzhou is its fourth stop.Around 360 costumes, accessories and tools from 36 ethnic minorities are on display. To echo the ethnological characteristics of Zhejiang Province, some 60 traditional costumes are on show in the provincial capital.
The aim of the exhibition is to show the relationships between old and modern eras through ethnic attire, from the angles of anthropology and philosophy. It is in four sections — time, space, craft and integration.
Most minorities, unlike the Han nationality, developed without their own characters and languages. Many used symbols, motifs, patterns and colors on clothing as an effective way to hand down history, emotion and myths.
As one of China’s 55 minority groups, the Miao (苗) group’s embroidery skills are famous across the country.
Miao-style coats feature their legend of the origin of human beings. Butterflies and birds are common totems associated with life. On one coat in the exhibition, symmetrical embroidery depicts birds and butterfly coming together to incubate humans.
Due to their long history of migration, the Miao people are divided into 200 branches across the country. This costume pattern is found in Danzhai, Leishan, Rongjiang and Sanzhou of Guizhou Province.
As a splendid costume for both women and men, it is only worn at the Guzang Festival which is held every 13 years to worship Miao ancestors. This could date to the pre-Qin Dynasty (before 221 BC) , reflecting the long history of the costumes.
Dong (侗), another minority in southwest China, also boasts its own style of attire. The sun is the common motif on coats since the people considered it the supreme power that everything in nature depended on.
The sun totem appeared on copper drums at first. Later, leather drums replaced the copper version, but the totems were preserved on attire.
If there is one easy way to differentiate the minority people from Han in China, it is their heavy use of silver worn by women and children, from headdresses, necklaces, bracelets, earrings to waistbands and inlaid pieces on costume adornments.
Clothes made from fish skin and skirts covered with silver ornaments are among the items on display at the “Timeless Style of Chinese Ethnic Attire” exhibition at the China Craft and Art Museum in Hangzhou.To get more Hangzhou news, you can visit shine news official website.
The exhibition, with its “Tradition and Present, Old and New” theme, is organized by the Chinese National Museum of Ethnology. It has visited Beijing and the Ningxia Hui and Guangxi Zhuang autonomous regions. Hangzhou is its fourth stop.Around 360 costumes, accessories and tools from 36 ethnic minorities are on display. To echo the ethnological characteristics of Zhejiang Province, some 60 traditional costumes are on show in the provincial capital.
The aim of the exhibition is to show the relationships between old and modern eras through ethnic attire, from the angles of anthropology and philosophy. It is in four sections — time, space, craft and integration.
Most minorities, unlike the Han nationality, developed without their own characters and languages. Many used symbols, motifs, patterns and colors on clothing as an effective way to hand down history, emotion and myths.
As one of China’s 55 minority groups, the Miao (苗) group’s embroidery skills are famous across the country.
Miao-style coats feature their legend of the origin of human beings. Butterflies and birds are common totems associated with life. On one coat in the exhibition, symmetrical embroidery depicts birds and butterfly coming together to incubate humans.
Due to their long history of migration, the Miao people are divided into 200 branches across the country. This costume pattern is found in Danzhai, Leishan, Rongjiang and Sanzhou of Guizhou Province.
As a splendid costume for both women and men, it is only worn at the Guzang Festival which is held every 13 years to worship Miao ancestors. This could date to the pre-Qin Dynasty (before 221 BC) , reflecting the long history of the costumes.
Dong (侗), another minority in southwest China, also boasts its own style of attire. The sun is the common motif on coats since the people considered it the supreme power that everything in nature depended on.
The sun totem appeared on copper drums at first. Later, leather drums replaced the copper version, but the totems were preserved on attire.
If there is one easy way to differentiate the minority people from Han in China, it is their heavy use of silver worn by women and children, from headdresses, necklaces, bracelets, earrings to waistbands and inlaid pieces on costume adornments.
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