Chinanews.com, Nanchang, March 3rd, title: Visiting the China Costume Museum: Intangible cultural heritage costumes "worn" through the millennium to radiate the brilliance of the times

  Author Xu Mengwen Huashan

  The Hezhen logo "fish skin clothing" is handmade with exquisite tanning techniques. The body of the fish skin clothing is mostly made of several pieces of light-colored fish skin, and the edges of the clothing are stitched with cloud patterns, flower patterns, and fish scale patterns, etc. clothing pattern...

  Recently, the reporter walked into the Chinese Clothing Museum located in Jiangxi Institute of Clothing, Nanchang County, Nanchang City. The collections present the history of the development of Chinese ancient and modern clothing. The exquisite craftsmanship and profound connotations are breathtaking.

  It is understood that the museum is independently organized by Jiangxi Institute of Fashion Technology. The current exhibition hall covers an area of ​​more than 4,500 square meters, and it collects and exhibits more than 10,000 pieces of clothing, accessories, fabrics, batik, embroidery, textile devices and materials from different eras in China.

For example, the crown clothes of the emperors of the Zhou Dynasty, the fish skin clothes of the Hezhen nationality, and the phoenix crown of the She nationality... The costumes in the museum are full of essence and distinctive features.

The picture shows the Miao silver ornaments displayed in the Costume Museum.

Photo by Xu Mengwen

  China is known as "the country with the best clothes, the country with etiquette" and has a splendid history of clothing.

The reporter noticed that on Chinese social platforms, cross-dressing in ethnic costumes is quite popular. Netizens complete the transformation from ordinary clothes to traditional ethnic costumes with music accompanied by music. Attractive again.

  There is a record in the "Shan Hai Jing" of the Hezhen people, "The country of Xuangu is in the north, and it is a food for people and fish."

The "fish skin clothing" is the most characteristic and most visible clothing among the Hezhe national costumes. It is unique in shape, simple and elegant, and has great national characteristics.

  Sun Chengfei, deputy curator of the Costume Museum of Jiangxi Institute of Fashion Technology, introduced that fish skin costumes are stitched from dozens of pieces of fish skin. They are the traditional uniforms of the Hezhen people. Lightweight, wear-resistant and other characteristics.

"This kind of clothing is convenient for them to engage in fishing and hunting."

  The reporter learned that in addition to the three major exhibition areas of ancient Chinese costumes, ethnic minority costumes, and works of contemporary Chinese design masters, the museum also has special thematic areas such as the Miao silver jewelry area, cheongsam area, embroidery area, plant dye area, and textile machinery area. The exhibition area provides visitors with a historical scene that can be viewed and touched, and also provides professional resources for activities such as teaching, scientific research and foreign exchanges.

The picture shows the embroidered costumes displayed in the Costume Museum.

Photo by Xu Mengwen

  "The intangible cultural heritage of the Costume Museum has remarkable characteristics." Sun Chengfei said that the museum has collected a lot of intangible cultural heritage clothing culture.

"All kinds of exquisite silver ornaments of the Miao nationality and handicrafts of other ethnic minorities, these are things with distinctive characteristics of clothing culture."

  The reporter saw in the unique exhibition area of ​​the wedding scenes of the She nationality that the bride of the She nationality wears a phoenix crown and a phoenix costume.

  Sun Chengfei introduced that the clothing of the She nationality is famous for its simplicity, elegance, practicality and beauty, and has a strong ethnic flavor.

Among them, the ribbon is a long-standing traditional handicraft fabric of the She nationality, which can be used for dressing, decoration, and as a token of love.

  Tang Xinqiang, deputy secretary of the party committee of Jiangxi Institute of Fashion Technology, expressed the hope that through the construction of clothing civilization, students will have a deeper understanding of China's long-standing clothing civilization, thereby building students' cultural confidence.

In the future, we also hope that Chinese clothing will shine brightly in the world.

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