A Study On The Chinese Ancient Theatrical Costume Chinese Classical Literature

Drama is an integrative art, and its essence is roll playing. All factors in the making of a drama embody and serve drama `s essence. Among these factors, the theatrical costume is the most direct and visual one that is used for roll playing. So studying the Chinese ancient theatrical costume undoubtedly is helpful to research the Chinese Ancient Drama `s form and essence. But for a long time, the Chinese ancient theatrical costume has been paid so little attention to that many fields of it have not been dug up till today. This badly limits the speed of studying the history of the Chinese Ancient Drama. So this paper tries to expound the history of the Chinese ancient theatrical costume on the basis of analyzing its materials in the round. And systematically analyzes its characteristics by the methods of semeiology and aesthetics.Firstly, this paper expounds the history of the Chinese ancient theatrical costume.The Chinese ancient theatrical costume `s genesis relates to the origins of the Chinese Ancient Drama and the Chinese ancient clothing. Since the Chinese Ancient Drama comes of the primitive men `s roll playing and the Chinese clothing comes of the primitive men `s dressing themselves up. So the Chinese ancient theatrical costume comes of the primitive men `s primping up themselves for roll playing. Many performances of animal playacting have been kept in the primitive paintings and the ancient books. The fells and the plumages that were used to play sorts of animals by primitive men were the rudiments of the Chinese ancient theatrical creatural costumes. In Shang and Zhou dynasties, gods and spirits were being playacted in the ceremony of lustrum or sacrifice. Those fantastic masks and costumes that used in it were the rudiments of the Chinese ancient theatrical costumes for gods and spirits. Afterwards, as the recreational function of gods and spirits playacting in the scared ceremony was separated and transformed, the professional actors appeared. The You Meng `s Clothes and Hat was a successful performance that an actor playacted a real man. Sun Shuao `s clothes and hat was one of important conditions for You Meng `s success in playacting Sun Shuao. So this performance was the beginner of the Chinese Ancient Drama getting its costume from the...