An Ethical Research For Chinese Culture Of Apparel And Accessories

It is undisputed to say that the existence of apparel and accessories is rather closely combined with ethics. Because clothing itself value contains the "true", and the ethics drummed value of "good", the apparel and accessories have myriad forms of beauty, become as the ideal form for ethics and the aesthetic ought to be. During the developing process of Chinese traditional clothing, because of Confucianism, Taoism, and many different ethical branches, and the development of ethics, at different times, different classes (layers), different groups, different people has various value pursuit and the principle of good and evil, therefore forming the trappings of characteristics in different ethics. Generally, the school of Zhou Yi established the main body of traditional clothing culture’s thought and spirit, made the value system has its basic framework, the value of traditional clothing culture is endowed with the character of humanism. Confucianism due respect the ritual, which makes traditional clothing (especially official dress) to form the hierarchy meaning and moral meaning; Taoism advocated to pursuit the nature of the tao("human freedom"), so that the of traditional clothing culture has the divergence between form and content; Because emphasized on the extreme utilitarianism spirit, the school of Monism and legalism pushed the traditional clothing culture into the narrow materialistic corner. Concluding process of the traditional clothing culture, we can find that the traditional clothing impressed on truth and good in aesthetic, insisted on the principle of harmonious coexistence, achieved the target of harmonizing the value of the ethical and aesthetic as one. But due to the need of maintaining hierarchy control, traditional ethics had to take the principle of advocating general character, deprecating personality, made the ethical and aesthetic value to the separation.As the image of ethical outreach, the morphology of dress is rather varies with the change of ethics. Because of the ethics factors, Chinese traditional clothing have not been able to break the bondage which the gods put on human, and always conflict between the character of entertainment for gods" and "entertainment for human", "ritual-reasonable", or "function-reasonable", so that aroused the change of clothing on the morphology and etiquette, such as wide or narrow about sleeve, light or dark on color, abundance or simple on etiquette. The Chinese traditional clothing appeared coexist between "entertainment for gods" and "entertainment for human", "ritual-reasonable " or "function-reasonable", barbarian tribes clothing mix with Central Plains tradition which build multivariate situation in Chinese tradition clothing culture. In general, however, the traditional clothing did not break through the area of "ritual protection", which disparage the people’s value under the gods, become the ideal tool of the feudal rule. This situation did not change until the transformation of modern ethics! Along with the transformation of modern ethics, human’s subjectivity status was established, the moral implications of gods gradually faded, along with the struggle route of subject-object on gods and human, tradition clothing culture developed respectively, human’s value increase rich gradually, and the value of clothing aesthetic meaning is growing.Because the ethics’separation from the political life, Contemporary clothing is developing out of the value orientation of traditional, displacement its direction to the development of personality. Therefore, the conservative style of traditional clothing is missing, more perfect style is the casual fashion and multiple personality. Traditional Clothing etiquette spirit disappeared, instead of this inspiration is free and easy, which suitable with the function of practical personality. Clothing’s constraints of people is missing, increased more content on personality value and aesthetic value. The emergence of this kind of personalized trend opened up a new fashion of personality aesthetics, but also takes us some latent danger on developing the traditional culture. It is a problem urgently to be solved on how to inherit excellent traditional morality, guide people to build up their health and scientific style of living,which based on the inspiration of absorption for western ethics about equality, freedom, guiding people, and the inspiration of criticism for eastern ethics for harmonization and implication.