A Study About The New Ideological Trend Of Chinese Modern Clothing

The new ideological trends of Chinese modern clothing(1840-1949) is part of the social ideological trend at that time as well. It came with the transformation of Chinese modern society and it was Chinese new cognition about the dressing motivation, modelling, colour, craft and so on. The “new” is relative to the “old”ideological trend of ancient Chinese clothing. There are fundamental differences between the “new” and the “old” as the essence of the fomer is humanism and scientism while the essnce of the latter is “the upper and the lower, the clothing must be different”.The new ideological trends of Chinese modern clothing is the ideology root of the modernization to Chinese clothing and it has an important enlightenment to the modernization of Chinese clothing. According to different specific level and worth,the new trend of Chinese modern clothing could be divided into the enlightenment of thought, art and technology. The enlightenment of thought, namely to indicate the reason and the way to change clothing.The enlightenment of art, namely to indicate the new style of clothing. The enlightenment of technology, namely to indicate the way to create and maintain the “new clothing” and the “beautiful clothing”.The realization of the enlightenments of the new ideological trends must based on the communication forms like the modern newspapers and periodicals, legal notices, speeches, competitions and so on. The modern newspapers and periodicals,which public-oriented and rich in forms, are main means to spread the new ideological trend of Chinese modern clothing and laid a foundation for the popularization of the new ideological trend. In addition, the legal notices with the core of freedom, equality, and the speeches, competitons, interactions about changing clothing also contributed to the popularization of the new ideological trend of Chinese modern clothingAlthough the popularization degree of the new ideological trend of of Chinese modern clothing is different from urban to rural and from upper class to lower class,its formation is dependent on the root of Chinese traditional culture. The foundation of traditional cultures in the new ideological trend of of Chinese modern clothing discusses the inheritance of traditional culture in the field of modern clothing. The thoughts which were changing and updating as time went by correspond to the new ideological trend of of Chinese modern clothing could be saw from the thoughts ofMencius, Mozi, Laozi, Zhuangzi who were borned in the pre-qin period and the Lizhi,Liyu who were borned in the modern times.The new ideological trend of Chinese modern clothing is the combination of“westernization”(modernization) and the Chinese traditional cultures. The western culture set an example for modern Chinese. Guided by the humanism and scientism,modern Chinese pay a lot attention to the “dao” and the “qi”, as well as the innovation and development of modern clothing. The liberation of modern women and the setting procedure of their new image were accelerated. At the same time, the ideology and image of the Chinese borned in modern and post-modern time, and the modernization of Chinese clothing cultures were all pushed by the new ideological trend of modern clothing.