1, color

A nation's preference for color, in a sense, reflects its subconscious personality. In the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, black was regarded by China's ancestors as the color of God who dominated everything. Later, people turned the worship of god (black) to the worship of big (yellow), thus forming the traditional concept of "yellow is precious".

The colors of traditional clothes are influenced by Yin-Yang and Five Elements, including cyan, red, black, white and yellow. They are called positive colors, and other colors are intermediate colors. In most dynasties, positive color was reserved for the upper class to show nobility.

In the folk, positive color is also the color that people like and pursue in clothing color matching. The feudal hierarchy in ancient China was strict, and it was also reflected in the costumes: it started from the people, and once it was seen by the royal nobles, it was forbidden for the people to use it, otherwise the light one would be killed, and the heavy one would be implicated in the nine families; If the color of a dress is worn by the royal aristocrats at first, and then becomes an ordinary folk dress, the color of the dress is immediately considered as a humble color.

In the west, the most popular colors in Roman times were white and purple. White symbolizes purity, integrity and sacredness, and also represents charm. This is why westerners like to choose white as their wedding dress. People have also been longing for religious colors in clothing. Since the Renaissance in Europe, with the upgrading of luxury clothing, bright colors have been welcomed by people.

The French love cloves and roses, and they are also obsessed with subtle sky blue and holy white; Spaniards advocate elegant rose red and gray tones; In Britain, black has unexpected complexity and strong feeling, because black is considered as a mysterious and noble color, but it is sometimes used for silent, unlucky or sad mourning.

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In terms of appearance characteristics, the appearance of China traditional clothing emphasizes the sense of longitudinal direction, and mostly adopts drooping lines, long sleeves and tubular gowns and skirts. The traditional clothing forms in China are mainly open-breasted and double-breasted styles. Top coat system and clothing system are two basic forms of China's clothing, which have been used alternately in the history of China for thousands of years.

The style of western clothing has an evolution process, from the ancient Greek chest-wrapped clothing to the middle ages, mainly the amorphous clothing with chest-wrapped and the semi-stereotyped clothing with open front. China's traditional clothing has a naturally drooping collar and no exaggerated shoulders. Sagging lines, long sleeves and tubular dress skirts are often used to emphasize the sense of verticality, making the figure look slender.

However, the appearance of western classical clothing emphasizes the sense of laterality, and often adopts the shoulder contour that spreads laterally, various stiff collars, wheel collars, unfolded sleeves, huge skirts, overlapping lace and flowers in various parts, starched yarns and padding, which makes the clothing lines exaggerated and radiate outward.

Moreover, from the structural characteristics, regardless of robes, shirts and jackets, there is usually only one structural line connecting the bottom seam of the sleeve and the side swing. Chinese-style clothing adopts the traditional plane straight-line cutting method in China, with no shoulders and armholes. The whole dress can be laid flat on the ground, with simple structure and stretching.

In order to finally achieve the stereoscopic effect consistent with the stereoscopic human body, western clothing mostly adopts the method of stereoscopic cutting. The three-dimensional cutting method regards the human body as a polyhedron or at least a tetrahedron, carefully handles the ups and downs of the human body from top to bottom and from front to back, and uses clothing techniques such as pleating and darting.

3. Mode

Chinese and western costumes also show a diversified trend in the choice of patterns. Since ancient times, auspicious patterns have been widely used, from noble silks and satins to folk printed fabrics. People like to use various patterns to compare totem worship and express their expectation for a happy life, such as dragons and phoenixes, dragons and dragons playing with pearls, magpies climbing plums and so on. This shows that Hanfu likes to use patterns to express auspicious wishes.

The patterns on western European clothing are constantly changing with the changes of history.

Many flowers and plants were arranged in ancient times, and gorgeous flower patterns were popular in Italy during the Renaissance. In the period of Louis XV in France, influenced by the decorative style of rococo, S-shaped or spiral rattan grass and light and soft garden flowers and plants were popular. Fauvism Duffy pattern and opal pattern designed by geometric line vision principle are modern popular patterns.

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China's clothing has a long history, from primitive society, Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, Qin and Han Dynasties, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Song, Liao, Xia, Jin, Ming and Qing Dynasties to modern times, all of which have attracted the world's attention with distinctive features, mainly Hanfu, Khufu and Qizhuang.

"West" follows the customary appellation of regional categories, as opposed to "East" in Asia. The history of western clothing dominated by western European countries can be traced back to the history of clothing development in Mesopotamia and Egypt. Western clothing embodies different styles from eastern clothing, especially the cultural elements contained in it, which represents an important part of the history of human clothing.

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Second, the analysis of the reasons for the differences between Chinese and Western costumes

1, cultural differences between Chinese and western costumes

In the course of thousands of years' history in China, our ancestors created a profound undressing culture and formed a unique aesthetic and philosophical concept, which is completely different from the West.

The west emphasizes the separation of the subjective world and the objective world, and clearly points out that the subjective is for me, the objective is for things, and "things" and "I" are opposites and should not be confused, which makes them accustomed to rationally observing the world and discussing laws, and forms the practice of pursuing natural laws to obtain truth. Therefore, it shows a rational or scientific attitude towards clothing.

2. Differences between Chinese and Western aesthetic concepts.

China's clothing aesthetic concept is embodied in the image structure in women's clothing modeling.

This method of cutting straight lines and curves on the plane makes the clothes completely fit and not fit, as far as possible without exposure and restraint. In the obscurity of the cover, it implicitly shows the graceful, graceful, warm and elegant body curve beauty, and the sense of modeling is full of rhythm, so that the viewpoint can move with one's own wishes, and the body of life shows its charm between the back and the outside after taking off the coat.

China's traditional clothing space modeling shows the rhythm of "reality" and "light and shade". The western clothing space consciousness was formed after the Middle Ages, which reflected the westerners' psychology of looking for space and eager to occupy more space, so they increased the volume of clothing modeling and used clothing as a tool to expand their bodies.

This exaggerated costume modeling keeps a certain distance between man and nature as a whole and between individuals, which embodies the western world outlook and the opposition between man and nature, mind and environment, and subjectivity and objectivity. Due to the different philosophical and aesthetic concepts of the east and the west, different basic shapes are created in clothing, reflecting different spiritual charm.

3. Differences in dress concepts between Chinese and Western dress cultures.

In the traditional social and family education in China, dress code of conduct is regarded as an important content of self-cultivation and has long influenced the dress life of China people. People pay attention to ethical content in dress, cover up the human body with clothes, and try their best to go beyond the limitations of the human body to meet the moral requirements of Confucianism. The beauty of clothing pays attention to the beauty of human spirit, temperament and charm, but does not emphasize the body.

Western clothing culture belongs to the category of diversification, among which the most striking feature is that clothing highlights individuality and highlights individuality.

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