Skills, Body And Society: The Fieldwork Of The Langdong "Hei Miao" Clothing In Southeast Guizhou

Clothing is a thing of the body,made in the form of the body,worn by the body frame,and spread by the flow of the body,so clothing and the body are mutual and mutually supportive.Clothing is not just a "second skin",but its embodiment is also linked to the experience of wearing it and the relationship of social interaction.This paper takes the Clothing of the "Black Miao" in southeastern Guizhou as the object of study.Starting from the artistic ontology and using the method of artistic analysis,the clothing style of this Miao clan is recorded graphically,while the process of clothing crafting is decomposed and recorded pictorially.At the same time,the participant observation method and interview method of anthropological field research are used to study dress from the level of cultural research,and the body sense of dress practice is used as the entry point of dress research,which takes care of the carrier of dress and the flowing changes of dress in the social context.In contrast to the traditional way of classifying clothing,this paper redefines the clothing classification system of the "Black Miao" clan,starting from the local body perception system of this clan.In everyday life situations,the body’s senses fill the trivial,day-to-day,year-to-year dressing practices.The change of seasons makes people’s bodies perceive the change of temperature first,and the body sense then guides the judgment of dressing behavior.Based on this,this paper adopts the dichotomous bodily perception of "cold/hot" as a way of classifying clothing in Chapter 1,and combines it with the local ecological linkage of clothing production techniques in Chapter 2.The purpose is to introduce the physical feeling of the local dress in Chapter3,the so-called "big coat is cold,small coat is cold".Clothes are worn with the wearer’s body every day,and therefore penetrate deeply into the sensory sensations of the wearer.The body perception of cold and hot is matched with the physical practice of local labor,thus forming a temporal dressing cycle of labor and body perception of cold and warmth.Chapter 4 is intended to highlight the fact that in everyday life,people dress and then carry out social activities.Dressing is an evolving social practice,from the production process of clothing,to the overall dressing effect,to the sensory perception of the dressing wearer,and the continuous interaction practice between the dressed body and the social space environment,which is not only the internal psychological behavior of the body-holding subject,but also a social behavior in the space where the body is located,and its practice is in the same frequency with the development of society.The study found that the clothed body is both the subject of body dressing practice and,at the same time,the object of dressing practice.From this,it can be seen that the dressed body has a dual orientation,on the one hand facing the internal world of individual dressing feelings,and on the other hand facing the external world of social dressing practices.The expression of the body does not exist in a fixed paradigm.By capturing the momentary or persistent bodily sensations and integrating them with the culture behind the state of dress,we see the complex two-way relationship between people and dress and the context of social practices.In parallel with the development of society,the dressing practice of the body is infused with many epitomes of constantly renewed socialization.