Yangtze River Daily Wuhan client January 13 (reporter Wan Jianhui correspondent Xu Zhigang) national costumes are an integral part of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, known as "history books worn on the body", is the "glue" for building a common spiritual homeland of the Chinese nation.
On January 12, the "Homologous Symbiosis 'Clothes' Colorful - Yangtze River Basin National Costume Exhibition" opened in the Yangtze River Civilization Hall. The exhibition is sponsored by the Yangtze River Civilization Museum (Wuhan Museum of Natural History) and the Museum of Ethnology of South Central University for Nationalities, and exhibits more than 130 pieces (sets) of selected costumes, silver jewelry and silk embroidery of many ethnic groups in the Yangtze River Basin.
Similar preferences can be seen in the distinctive national costumes
Exhibition site. Photo by Xu Weiwei, reporter of the Yangtze River Daily
The exhibition is divided into three units: "The Source of the Yangtze River, the Appearance of The Tibetan and Qiang", "The Red Flying Green Dance, the Sheng Song Ding Boiling", and "The Deep Water Qu Forest, the Mysterious Town", focusing on the costumes, silver jewelry and silk embroidery of the Tibetan, Qiang, Yi, Bai, Tujia, Miao and Dong ethnic groups, supplemented by pictures, video materials, on-site landscaping and a variety of interactive installations, focusing on the unique cultural charm belonging to the Yangtze River Basin. Between a needle and a thread, a beautiful picture of national history and culture is displayed.
The exhibition was announced in the sand painting performance "Neon Splendid China", and the fine sand flowing on the fingertips of the performers depicted a unique style and magnificent national costumes, which amazed the audience. The reporter saw at the exhibition site that the first thing that caught the audience's eye was the Tibetan and Qiang costumes, and the narrator used Hada as an example to introduce the white worship of Tibetan and Qiang costumes. The costumes of various ethnic groups in the Yangtze River Basin have their own characteristics, but some ethnic groups have similar preferences. The Yi, Bai, Tujia, Miao and Dong all value silver and use silver as beauty. At the exhibition hall site, these silver jewelry objects related to ethnic and clothing were also displayed.
The reporter noted that the color selection of the Costumes of the Yi people in Sichuan and Western Hunan is mainly black, dark red, and blue gray; the costumes of Bai women are similar to the traditional costumes of the Han Nationality, with a light red background color with a large petal pattern, which is lively and festive; the "Book of Later Han" records that the ancestors of the Yao people like to wear "five colors" clothes, until modern Yao costumes still retain this style, and the Yao women's costumes on display, from headkerchiefs, tunics, waists to pants, are embroidered with five-color threads, which is a veritable "cloth with colorful cloth.".
Two small volunteers dressed in national costumes took over the explanation work of the docents, and the audience applauded their explanations. Student volunteers of South Central University for Nationalities participated in the installation and voluntary explanation of this exhibition, and the original cultural and creative products with national characteristics of the students of the School of Fine Arts of the university were also displayed and sold in this exhibition. Some of the exhibition areas are complemented by on-site landscaping and modern multimedia interaction. Many parents and children of the audience also experienced the blue dyeing and weaving and hand-weaving of national characteristics on the spot, paying tribute to ingenuity and inheriting intangible cultural heritage while doing their own work.
Ninety percent of the Samurai costumes of Yi men and women are exhibited for the first time
Yang Shengcai, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and vice president of South Central University for Nationalities, introduced that the 130 pieces (sets) of traditional costumes of various ethnic groups in the Yangtze River Basin exhibited in this exhibition are provided by the Ethnology Museum of the university, including 5 categories of clothing, embroidery, brocade, silver jewelry and textile tools, and most of the exhibits are traditional ethnic costumes from the Qing Dynasty to the founding of New China. Many of these treasures, such as The costumes of Yi men and women, more than 90% of the costumes on display, have been exhibited publicly for the first time since they were collected in the school's Ethnology Museum in the 1950s.
Yang Shengcai said: Coinciding with the successful convening of the Central Ethnic Work Conference, the construction of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park was officially launched, and an exhibition of national costumes in the Yangtze River Basin was held, with the theme of "homologous symbiosis and 'clothing' colorful", from the perspective of clothing, to fully display to the public the long history jointly written by various ethnic groups in the long-term historical development process and the splendid culture jointly created, and these historical cultures have formed a community of common destiny for the Chinese nation to be pluralistic and integrated.
Li Shuyun, director of the Yangtze River Civilization Museum, said that national costumes are the external image emblems of a nation, and also a synthesis of material culture and spiritual culture. The costume culture of the Yangtze River Basin and the culture of the Yangtze River are also in step with each other, and they are not only an important part of the excellent culture of the Chinese nation, but also the treasures of all human civilization. Through national costumes and jewelry, pictures and video materials, supplemented by on-site landscaping and modern multimedia interaction, this exhibition jointly depicts the colorful and harmonious and symbiotic national customs of the Yangtze River Basin, shows colorful civilizations, and promotes common prosperity.
It is reported that the exhibition will last until March 27 and is free to the audience. There will also be an online exhibition in the future, and the Yangtze River Civilization Museum has also arranged small volunteers to provide free explanations to the audience on a regular basis.
【Editor: Deng Laxiu】
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