The Study Of The Miao's Dress Totem Pattern

Miao is an old nation which has formed his own special culture through the long history. As one of the inspirit cultures, miao's dress is very richness and the pattern is very heavy and complicated. So this is very infrequence of all the 56 nations of China. Through the pattern and the color of the dress we can estimate which branch it is. Because of the long living in implosive area, most of the dresses are still hold the original look. But with the developing of the society, the traditional dress was changing. Now many patterns of the dress and the design have lost. So it's necessary to study this "no word epic".Miao's dress and pattern is very richness. It contain the nation's history and nation religion faith and the hope in the future. Totem adoration is a kind of early religion faith in the original society. The people in the original society believe that every gens must have some relationship with some animals or plants or inanimate objects. And once the gens believe that one has the relationship with his gens. The object will become the symbolize of this gens and thus is the totem of this gens. Mostly people always have all kinds of ceremonies or embroider the pattern in their cloth in order to get the bless. Totem pattern is one of the many patterns in Miao's history. So it's important to study the totem pattern in order to have a good understand of the Miao's dress pattern and the history.The Miaos' dress satisfied the need of the daily life of the people. At the same time the Miao's dress has preferably art accomplishment, represent the special taste on aesthetics. So in chapter three I discuss the characteristic of the Miao's aesthetics.