Abstract
Dress and personal adornment of Taoism, also short for Taoist Clothing. Its refers to the type of clothing with ‘Tao’ as the core concept. Taoist clothing as a kind of religious symbolic clothing, it can be described as a typical carrier of Chinese traditional culture (especially the Han nationality), which contains Chinese traditional religion, philosophy, aesthetics and technology. By studying the history, form and cultural symbols of Taoist clothing has important significance for help us to deeply understand Chinese traditional costume culture and to discover the valuable cultural elements contained in them.
Highlights
Dress and personal adornment of Taoism, short for Taoist Clothing
The ancient Chinese costume is a carrier of material and cultural forms that can cover up the body and keep warm from cold, and a symbolic manifestation of the traditional Chinese culture and its spirit
The cultural essence of Taoist clothing is a kind of clothing system based on the faith and thought of ‘Tao’ and ‘follows nature’ in ancient Chinese society, which contains the principle of ‘original life of Tao’
Summary
It is worth noting that Taoism as the only large religion in China, is one of the roots of Chinese culture. We may make the following definition of Taoist costume (‘Dao-Fu’): The so-called ‘Dao-Fu’ refers to the cultural symbol system of clothing, which is based on the concept and spirit of ‘Tao’, reflecting and reflecting the existence of life ‘nature’ and its value and aesthetic feeling. It is a kind of real clothing type, and a kind of idealized clothing cultural symbol system
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