Floral Medallion Pattern’s Cultural Analysis On Tang Dynasty Costumes And Its Digitally Innovative Application

Floral Medallion Pattern is one of the most typical plant-patterns on Tang DynastyCostumes. As country’s strong and peaceful, Tang Dynasty’s govern had policies to domesticliberty and external opening-up, this allows the contemporary and the different times’ cultureto intermingle. This became the traditional costume pattern with unique time features andharmonious characteristics. It developed with the intercourses of various culture and subjects.It is a kind of floral medallion pattern which follows a certain skeleton frame and shapeconcepts. The whole shape is center symmetric and decorated with leaves and petalslayer-by-layer. It is magnificent and elegant in virtue of the various and imaginative floralmaterials. Floral Medallion Pattern is a microcosm of flourishing Tang Dynasty.Taking the culture-discussion probe into this paper, the related concepts of Tang DynastyCostumes’s Floral Medallion Pattern and its developing background are the basic premise ofthe research, its headstream and cultural connotation are the focus of the research. Based ontheory of Floral Medallion Pattern’s artistic characteristics and aesthetic implication, itsdigitally innovative application is performed.Firstly, searching the relevant documentation and photos from the major libraries, thedatabases and the internet, considering Tang Dynasty Costumes form displayed at relevantcostume museum and the development of textiles, combining with the text-graphic materialthe proof and the inductive-summary method, preliminary study is carried out on FloralMedallion Pattern’s definition,classification, application and arrangement on clothes.Secondly, based on the development background of Tang Dynasty and Chinesetraditional culture, the headstream and cultural connotation of Tang Dynasty Costumes’ FloralMedallion Pattern are researched. It is given several enlightenments to start this subject by thespreading of Buddhism and the flourishing of plant-pattern in an integrated period. Thepattern itself carries strong Buddhist culture and Chinese traditional Harmonious culture,which provides theoretical direction on researching its artistic characteristics and aestheticimplication.Finally, by analyzing Floral Medallion Pattern’s artistic characteristics and aestheticimplication, depending on its applied range, applied style and modern people’ s aestheticdemand to perform its digitally innovative application. Taking women’s dress as designingpractice, it performs through pattern’s shape-reference and implication-reference. The studysolves the problem about how to apply this pattern to its digitally innovative application andfinds a way for traditional costumes’ Pattern to make the pattern’s inheritance and innovationbecome possible in its modern Design.