Abstract
Chu Ci is a collection of poems created by Qu Yuan. It combines the folk songs of the ancestors of the Yangtze river valley with ancient myths and legends, and has a strong local color and unique artistic style. Through the description of costumes in Chu Ci, we can find the formation, development and connection between costume ideology in the pre-Qin period and the ancient Chinese conception of nature, which has a significant influence on the formation of ancient Chinese philosophy and traditional clothing culture.
Highlights
Chu Ci is a collection of poems created by Qu Yuan
Yellow was honored in the Yellow Emperor's period, cyan was honored in the Xia Dynasty, white was honored in the Shang Dynasty, and red was honored in the Zhou Dynasty
Chuang-tzu thinks that from nothing to something, from something to nothing, all should conform to the nature, Chuang-tzu's spiritual world and its Costume Ideology are dialectical unity, which is the reflection of Taoism's detached thought
Summary
Each dynasty in the pre-Qin period had its own special respect for the color of clothing, Yu worships earth color, Xia worships wood color, Yin worships gold color, Zhou worships fire color, the different colors of different dynasties, which was related to aesthetics, and related to national politics. Color was a symbol of national power, and represented class differences. The colors favored by each dynasty in the pre-Qin period were related to the Chinese theory of the five elements, which refers to the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth. The ancients believed that these five elements were mutually reinforce and neutralize each other
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