American scientist Bell once said: "Sometimes you need to leave the usual avenue and dive into the forest, and you will definitely find something you have never seen before." [1] When I carefully examined the museum's collection of national costumes under a high-powered microscope, I was reminded of Bell's words, and at that moment I was deeply moved by the picture it presented. The national costumes under the microscope give us a new perspective and an unprecedented sensory experience.
Here, I have selected three pieces of the Beijing Institute of Fashion National Costume Museum collection of the Late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty Zhuang costume headpaper to share with you, let us change the perspective to observe and study it, but also can find a different wonderful. We can clearly observe that Zhuangjin adopts a unique texture made of silk and cotton blending, self-spun fine cotton yarn as warp thread, and colored silk thread without twisting or micro-twisting as weft thread, which is intertwined with rhythm and rhythm.
Yunnan West Domain Yangnong Zhuang Brocade Headpa
MFB005880
158cmX36cm
Late Qing Dynasty and Early Ming Dynasty
Xizhou County, Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province
Tapestry headkerchief front
Brocade headkerchief back
MFB005775
147cmX37.5cm
MFB008973
149cm×39cm
Rodin once said: "Looking at things differently, life will show another kind of beauty." It is not a lack of beauty in life, but a lack of discovery. "We can try to change our thinking to treat the things around us, change the perspective to see the craftsmanship of clothing, change multiples to study the material of national costumes, perhaps, we will see a multi-dimensional, three-dimensional, layered clothing world, and discover another kind of beauty presented by ethnic minority costumes."
[1] Lang Jiaming. The Mystery of Innovation, [M].Beijing: China Youth Publishing House, 1993 edition, p. 265.
Walk into the National Costume Museum of Beijing Institute of Fashion
Beijing Institute of Fashion National Costume Museum was organized in 1988, approved by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics in 2000, is China's first professional museum of clothing, is a collection, display, scientific research, teaching as one of the cultural research institutions. It aims to serve the society, provide professional resources for teaching and scientific research, and become the gene bank of national costume culture. Convey the richness and thickness of Chinese culture to the world, and become a good platform for cultural exchanges and research on Chinese costumes.
The existing exhibition hall of the Museum of Ethnic Costumes covers an area of 2,000 square meters, including seven exhibition halls, including the Ethnic Minority Costume Hall, the Han Costume Hall, the Miao Costume Hall, the Metalwork Jewelry Hall, the Brocade Embroidery Batik Hall, the Olympic Costume Hall, and the Photo Hall, as well as the multi-functional hall for teaching and academic exchange activities, and the Traditional Chinese National Costume Craft Transmission Hall that can interact with the audience.
The Museum of National Costumes has a collection of more than 10,000 pieces of clothing, ornaments, fabrics, batik, embroidery and other costumes of various ethnic groups in China. There are also nearly 1,000 pictures of the extremely precious ethnic life costumes of the Yi, Tibetan and Qiang ethnic groups taken in the 1920s and 1930s.
The museum actively carries out activities such as teaching and scientific research on national costume culture and modern design. From the aspects of fashion culture research, costume design research, and costume technology transmission, we explore new ideas and new ways to combine museum research with teaching practice and design practice. The museum has a master's program in the direction of national costume culture, and is also the scientific research and practice base of the college's doctoral program.
The Museum of National Costumes is open to the public free of charge. It has been officially awarded the titles of "Beijing Patriotism Education Base", "Beijing Science Popularization Education Base" and "Beijing Youth Foreign Affairs Exchange Base". It plays an important role in inheriting, innovating and carrying forward traditional Chinese culture.