Miao And Dong Women's Apparel And Cultural Comparative Study

National Clothes is a combination of national material and spirit culture, which reflects history, culture, economy, religion, ethic, belief, convention of a nation, is an important part of national culture.Female Clothes of Miao and Dong people, with various styles, elegant embroiders, bright silvers, excellent craft and rich implications, are splendid flowers in Chinese minorities clothes garden. Miao people and Dong people have respective culture, which decide their female clothes have different characteristics. However, the familiar work and life style and same geographic environment bring about certain comparability between Miao and Dong people clothes. It's fairly significative to study female clothes of Miao and Dong people by comparing method not only from ethnology but also from cosmetic science.The convenient transport, frequent communication and modern life coming with information age lead female clothes of Miao and Dong people going more and more convergence. At the same time, female clothes of Miao and Dong people are running off seriously due to the inducing of economic benefit and the changing of life statues. Crafts of spinning, weaving, dyeing and embroidering are on the verge of being lost. Thus is the social value of this study. Field study and literature study methods are used in this thesis. Field study focuses on Qian Dong Nan, a minority region of Gui Zhou province, where Miao people and Dong people settle. The author get a lot of first-handed information, such as interview record, photos and videos which constitute the practical base of this thesis by field study. At the same time, the analysis of literature documents put the thesis more deeply. This thesis combines theory ethnology and cosmetic science, analyzes female clothes of Miao and Dong people by using culture change and culture compare theory, and discusses following question:1. compare of female clothes of Miao and Dong people; 2. ornaments; 3. design of clothes; 4. aesthetic taste; 5.inheriting status.The emphasis on this thesis is to research the similarity and difference and their origin between female clothes of Miao and Dong people. The ultimate target is to find a way to protect, inherit, study and develop female clothes culture of Miao and Dong people.