The Korean Costume Of Tributary Svstem In The Ming And Oine Dynasties

As China and Korean peninsula are close neighbors, The history between two countries is long-standing and well-established in political, economic and cultural aspects. Dynasties who persued Mencius’s "shi da jiao lin" criterion in Korean peninsula would like to contact China forwardly and became China’s tributary states. But The Sino-Korean relationship changed because of the change of history. And this paper mainly focuses on the Sino-Korean relationship from costume, especially in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Before Ming Dynasty, States in Korean peninsula "request Chinese systems", it sent emissaries to China for requesting costume once. From this aspect, we can see that Korea admired China. But in Yuan Dynasty, the costume in Korean peninsula was influenced by Mongolia Style. It was related to the strength of Yuan Dynasty and the allied policy. In Ming Dynasty, Korean peninsula pursued "shi da" basic criterion to Ming Dynasty, especially in costume aspect. The ritual costumes of the Joseon Dynasty followed the system of the Ming Dynasty. Korea often sent emissaries to China to request costumes of their Kings, Princesses and Princes. At that time, the vassals of China was superior to the vassals of Korea. From this we can see the typical tributary relationship between China and Korea, and Korea was a vassal state at that time. In Qing Dynasty, although Joseon Dynasty was still a vassal state, people in Korea also wore costume of Ming Dynasty for two reasons:firstly, Korea thought of the kindness of Ming Dynasty, they thought themselves as "little China" since Ming Dynasty was ruined, secondly, Qing Dynasty didn’t force Korea to dress Qing costume for maintaining his control. From Ming Dynasty to Qing Dynast)’, the different costume can reflect the orthodox concept of "huayi guan".