Skirts Of Han Women In Song Dynasty

It was in prehistor-ic times that our ancestors grown up with a concept of covering body.After long terms of evolution,several of cuttings,decorations and styles were gradually established.It is worth mentioning that the construction and paradigm would not mutated along with dynasties nor the ruling classes change.Instead,the developing context tend to being independent from political evolution,faithfully,firmly,recording how these times change.The three hundred years during Song dynasty was an important changing point among Chinese history.It was a transformation of feudal society,by the political system,economic model,moral values,as well as aesthetic orientation.All these concepts were differing from previous times,meanwhile deeply effect future generations.Such kind of achievement make Song dynasty a dazzling star in ages.To be affectecd,clothes during established a bread new fashion.These new patterns were inherited from the previous,absorbed from the foreign,benefited from the uprising of civic class,upgrading of production process,and upsizing of economic activities.Excavations of Song dynasty(especially Southern Song)have an large amount in both quality and quantity,which provide a great assistance for us to understanding those fashion styles.One of an important component of Chinese traditional customs was dresses and skirt.Though the history of skirt can also be tread back to thousands of years ago,the skirt in ancient time was often covered by other clothes,only would be showed out in personal situation.Until late East Han dynasty,when the original covering clothes got less prefers,which made the covered-skirt possible to appear in daily occasions it was also the time when foreigners started to contact with China frequently,which brought totally different cutting and decorations to China.Gambling,fusing,confronting and mixing,skirt in Song dynasty presented a stable form,with both traditional Chinese cutting and the foreign styling.Not only that,fashion-cheesing women of Song dynasty also innovated new styles,which not only influenced the north,but also evolved during the follow-up development.The development was so profound that even after thousand years,some of the details can still be seen in some minority clothes.There are no less than twenty eight skirts that there structures can be defined,these samples mainly unearthed from these four tombs:Tomb of Song Dynasty Near Huashan?Tomb of ZhouShi?Tomb of Song Dynasty Near Huashan and Tombs of Huang Sheng.Majority of popular style during Song dynasty was covered,and most of them can be contact to related words and pictures.According to the numbers of skirt pieces,the majority in Song dynasty can be divided to the classification of one or two pieces.Most of the one—piece skirt are frilly,some of them have a shorter waist that can only closed in the front of people' s waist,the others are wider,the overlapped—section have no tuck.They were fashions influenced by tucks from the west.Besides,there is also a three-tuck skirt and pieces-stitching skirt,with a less information but a longer history.The pieces-stitching skirt was the most traditional mode,when it combined with tucks and spread for years,here comes to three-tuck skirt.The two—pieces skirt had a proper noun in Song dynasty,called XuanQun,it is the majority of all the excavations.Invented by prostitutes in Kaifeng,be all the rage,Xuanqun deeply influenced the following times.There are two special skirts by the way,one dress skirt with one long piece and two short pieces,and a slit skirt with little information.Historical and glitched,these skirts were growing in a rich soil.The former was a conclusion to dancing clothes from Sui and Tang dynasty,and the latter vaguely revealed shapes of men' s and army's costumes.There is no doubt that Song dynasty is one of the most important setting point during the history of cloth.Transversally,it absorbed verities of elements and fo-rmed a stereotype,spread to the north on the contrary;horizontal,it concluded the chaos after traditional styles broke,passed a.stubborn pattern to following times,and almost decided the developing context in following hundreds of years.Thus,paper study would base on the excavations,focus on the context,rely on the handed clown words and pictures,depend on the cutting and occasions.There would be three major and seven minor categories,with each willing analysis details and matches,and the most important,the possible evolution in previous and future times.