Traditional Costume Culture of She Ethnic Group from Ecological Perspective

Abstract

She's traditional costumes are both tangible and intangible cultural heritage, which do not only have a high aesthetic value, but also embody She's enduring beliefs and characters. However, with the economic development, social progress, especially technology updates and promotion of the traffic and media, the protective barrier of She's original cultural environment formed naturally by the geographical environment in the past have gradually disappeared. She's traditional culture, including costume culture, is rapidly weakening and lost. Based on the fieldwork of She ethnic minority areas in Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi Provinces of the East China, as well as the costumes and their cultural background information, this article analyzes three aspects of She's ecological concepts shown in costumes, as "Harmony between Man and Nature" - the Understanding of Environment, "Make the best use of things" - the understanding of the finiteness of natural resources, and ¡°Survival of the Fittest¡± - the Relationship between Ecosystem and Costume. She's costumes reflect a natural living environment, as well as a mode of the production and technical status of the She people. At the meantime, they reflect the national consciousness, the religious conceptions, the social attitudes, and aesthetic tendencies state of the She people, which embody the mutual relations and interactions of natural ecosystems and human cultural ecosystem.