Research of Women Dresses in the Tang Dynasty and the Modern Dresses Under the Perspective of Postmodernism

Abstract

The culture of the Tang Dynasty had the characters of diversification and secularization, especially the women dress aesthetic culture had become the unique culture in the costume history of China. The modern women dress has the inheritance relationship with the women dress in the Tang dynasty. The modern women dress not only has the aesthetic characters with lush and exotic, but also times fragrance with the melting of elegance and sparkling. The modern women dress has the characters of diversification and secularization under the perspective postmodernism, which has the internal relation that could not be split with the Tang dynasty women dress in the spirit. From the aspect, we could say that the modern women dress has the inheritance relationship with the women dress in the Tang dynasty. Through the research of the two dresses, we could make use of the traditional costumes culture in the development of modern dress. In the Tang Dynasty, the economy was prosperous and thriving; the military force was strong; the culture and the art were booming. The clothes in the Tang Dynasty had all the advantages of home and abroad. Therefore, the unique culture in the Tang Dynasty was formed under this background. The women dressing in the Tang Dynasty absorbed the advantages of foreign countries in the facade, and also melt elegant demeanor of our minority nationalities. The women dresses in that times contained a variety of cultures, bringing the quick development of the costumes and gorgeous light. The diversification, openness, containment and secularization in the Tang Dynasty women dresses had the similar spirit factors with the modern women dresses. Through the analysis of the aesthetic trend towards the modern women dress, comparing the aesthetic characters of the Tang Dynasty women dresses and the modern women dresses, analyzing the differences of the modern women dresses and the Tang Dynasty women dresses, to discuss how to combine the traditional costumes cultures and postmodernism and design the fashion clothes. The Trend of Diversification and Secularization on the Aesthetic Culture in the Tang Dynasty and Modern Times. The culture in the Tang Dynasty was prosperous and booming. After the founding, the rulers in the Tang Dynasty established the new ruling order; At the same time, they also encouraged the development of a variety of cultural genre, enlightened system and took political power to coordinate the relationship between the various culture, phase, and enabled the culture better service for the feudal rule in the Tang Dynasty. Finally, three major schools of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism culture landscape was formed in China. Under the affect of the kind of culture, people were suitable to the refined and popular tastes. As you know, the culture was used in the design of clothing through the spirit of secularism. But the secular aesthetic not stayed in vulgar culture of the desire level and sensory level, but spiritual solace which was created through the creation in the living through the hard work of the people. In the aesthetic culture of secular, People implemented the aim of the comfort heart, beyond himself, which was the purpose and awakening of traditional culture in 6th International Conference on Electronics, Mechanics, Culture and Medicine (EMCM 2015) © 2016. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 672 “secular cultural. In addition, the aesthetic spirit of secular, and diversified cultural also promoted the women costumes in the Tang Dynasty to be full of creation and many styles, becoming the most brilliant chapter in the history of China's costume. After more than one thousand years, the people are living in a highly diversified living environment which is provided by the international style. They can not help but miss the living environment and lifestyle what they used to be. Just in this situation, the postmodern culture was appearing in this contradiction, and it again aroused people's pursuit for the diversified culture and spread around the world. The postmodernism brought great changes in the west, also brought great impact towards Chinese contemporary aesthetic culture. On the one hand, the postmodernism held a denial attitude to the so-called objective truth in traditional art, which emphasized the perceptual aesthetic had broken the aesthetic to stay on the situation in the field of fine arts, putting art aesthetic into People's Daily life. Therefore, we could say that the culture of modern aesthetic began to have the characters of the secularization. On the other hand, the postmodernism was affecting the ideas of the artists, and great changes were experiencing towards the world. The artists gave up the pursuit to the object and the certainty. They thought that the art was uncertain; the art was open and was changing for all the times. Diversified there are evolving. Just as the famous philosopher German Wolfgang said: the postmodernism emphasized rather than attempting to kill or destroy differences, claiming the parallel paradigm, competing with each other, so it is a very complete diversity. Due to the secular and diversified characteristics of the postmodernism, which also affected Chinese aesthetic culture. In China, modern women dresses changed from single style to the combination of many styles, which was the vivid manifestation of the affects towards Chinese aesthetic culture unconsciously. To sum up, we could get to know the close relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the modern aesthetic culture. The Difference Between the Women Dresses and the Modern Women Dress in the Characters of Aesthetic. Our country has a long history, and every dynasty had its distinctive features, but there was no any dynasty whose women clothing aesthetic culture development level could be compared with the Tang Dynasty. We compare the contemporary aesthetic culture with the Tang Dynasty, concluding that they were similar in many ways such as diversity, secularization, innovation and advocating the freedom of personality cultural spirit although after one thousand years. Therefore, we thought that the women dresses in today were a return in spirit. The Aesthetic Popularity in the Tang Dynasty. Women dresses in the Tang Dynasty had the most gorgeous colors and various styles in the history of our country. Their main features were elegant and luxury, having many forms and types. (Figure 1) (Figure 2)