| Dunhuang frescoes, a cubist art of architecture, sculpture and painting, offered a bunch of precious information for studying China's archaic politics, economy, culture, religion, nations' relationships and friendship with nations outside China, is human's culture treasure and spirit fortune. Those conserved frescoes and literatures record not only China's archaic folk-custom details but also west-east nations' details, reflecting various nations' living habits, such as Mainland, China archaic North and Xiyu, and how they get along. The supporter figure in Dunhuang frescoes, however, is the beginning of this whole research. If we regard those supporterfigures and titles as an art and a history, I think it would be better to say it is a systemic art and a visual history. Those figures and titles truly reflect the living habits of Dunhuang people at that time, from which we can see Dunhuang marriage culture goes through the supporters' whole social relationship. Different regions, nations and countries have different marriage cultures based on different people's social characteristics and living habits, but multi-marriage cultures will have an effect on people's dressing in the middle of alliance.This paper mainly focuses on allied marriage people's dressing features among Cao's family, Huihu blood royal and Yutian Blood royal, by the analysis of their dressing differences before and after marriage, we can see that marriage alliance at that time plays a vital role in cultures' harmony among Huihu, Yutian and Mainland aristocrats.The real social relationship of every supporter figure reflects multi-characteristics of Dunhuang folk-custom culture, but it records Dunhuang people's various social relationship at different time, among which Cao's family supporter figures in Wudai period occupied more place. The alliance marriage of Cao's family, Huihu, Yutian and other nobles in Donghuangforms various kinds of marriage cultures. The author starts from Cao's family development history, by analyzing Cao's family supporters' figures in Dunhunag frescoes, to sum up the kinds of Dunhuang marriage culture and people relationship structure chart of Cao's family's marriage alliance culture.Compared with Mainland officials' contemporaneous dressing, the author analyzes supporters' figures' dressing feature according to people's relationship of Cao's family marriage alliance to summarize the dressing differences in Cao's family. Then, starting form historical development course of Yutian and Huhu is to study their people's dressing feature in order to analyze the connection of people's dressing variation under marriage culture.By the analysis of people's dressing feature of Cao's family, we can see that Dunhuang marriage culture not only has footprint of Confucian, Taoism, Buddhism, but also is the reflection of nations' cultures' harmony;not only has Mainland style, but also has rimland worldliness;not only follow the Liuli, but also differentiate form the Liuli. In terms of people's status and region folk-custom, we can see the diversity of marriage culture characteristics from marriage pictures to supporters' figures before and after marriage celebration infrescos. Duhuang region's connection and harmony offers powerful assistance for us to study dressing features and marriage culture forms.
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