东西方服饰文化在相当长的历史时期内,在相对独立的社会环境中,各自形成了自己的 服饰体系。时至今日,随着经济的不断发展,科技的不断进步,世界经济贸易的全球一体化 带来了生活方式的同质化。服饰潮流也在这一大趋势下日益“趋同”。西方人对中国这条东 方巨龙的崛起刮目相看,尤其是西方的服装设计师在推出的新作当中不断导入中国服饰文化 元素。透过这些表象,不禁引起人们一连串的深思:中国服饰文化与西方服饰文化到底有哪 些不同?这两种文化有无相似或相同的地方?未来中国人的服饰将以“国际化”的西方服饰 文化为主流,还是以中国本土的服饰文化为主流?或是两者的融合? During relativelylong history relativelyindependent social environment,eastern westernclothing culture have formed ownclothing system.Now constantlydeveloping continuouslymaking progress,the globalization worldeconomy tradehas brought homogenization lifestyle peoplefrom different countries.With trenddifferent clothing styles sameday day.Peoplefrom west look easterndragon neweyes,especially eastern clothing designers constantly add Chinese clothing culture elements newdesigns.Seeing through appearances,peoplecannot help ponderdeeply over questions,forexample,what betweenChinese Westernclothing culture.? somethingsimilar twokind culture?Themain trend futureChinese clothing style “international”western clothing culture,or Chineselocal clothing culture two?要弄清这些问题,恐怕只有在对这两种文化进行深入研究的基础上,比较各自的性格特 征和发展变迁过程,从中总结出某些规律,才能得到答案。 questionsout,only we compare each characteristic,development transitionprocess twokind culturefrom which we summarize some certain regular patterns, can we get 中西方服饰文化的特征概述Chapter One Summary westernclothing culture 要想比较中西方服饰文化的区别,就应先弄清中国文化与西方文化的特征。 wewant distinctionbetween Chinese Westernclothing culture,firstly we must understand fully Westernculture. 1.中、西方文化的特征 从地理环境上看,中国文化起源于黄河文明,是在一个相对固定而且封闭的地域环境中 发展形成的.自古以来,儒家思想、道家哲学、佛教、伊斯兰教以及基督教文化都曾在这块 热土上相互碰撞、交流和融会贯通,共同形成了以含蓄、包容为特征的中国文化,加上漫长 的封建社会政治体制的统治,构筑起高度发达的文化体系。 1.1 Westernculture Geographically,Chinese culture originated from YellowRiver Civilization,and relativelysettled closedgeographically environment.From days old,Confucianism,Taoismphilosophy,Buddhism,Islam Christianculture have ever collided,communicated eachother earth.,andbuilt Chinese culture features implicit compatibletogether.In addition,under longdomination politicalsystem feudalsociety,highly advanced cultural system has been built. 与此相对,西方文化是以围绕着地中海的北非的尼罗河文明、西亚的两河流域文明、爱 琴文明以及南欧的古希腊、古罗马文明为基础,经过来自北方的日耳曼民族大迁徙而形成的。 西欧诸国经过在中世纪的发展和拜占庭文化的滋养,特别是基督教文化的发展,从而形成与 远东的中国完全不同的基督教文化圈。在这个文化圈中生存着众多的种族,存在着性格不同 的文化,这些文化之间相互碰撞、交流和融合,形成了一种跃动的、积极进取的性格特色。 contrast,theformation westernculture greatmigration Germansfrom north NileCivilization NorthAfrica,Mesopotamia Civilization, Aegean Civilization ancientGreek ancientRome southernEurope.With MiddleAges Byzentiumculture,especially Christianculture,Christian culture circle which totallydifferent from far east Chinese has been formed. culturecircle where many races lived,there distinctcharacteristics,which collided,communicated eachother turnedout dynamiccharacteristic. 中国文化与西方文化相比,前者是在一个相对固定的地域环境中发展繁荣起来的,具有 相对单一而鲜明的个性特色,属个体发生性质;后者则跨越亚、非、欧三大洲,在一个广阔 的地域环境中,由多种文明相互混合,交替支配和影响,伴随着民族的迁徙、文化的移动而 形成的,具有混合性特色,属系统发生性质。 Comparing Chinese culture westernculture,the former boomed relativelysettled geographical environment hasrelatively single distinctpesonality characteristics,so individiualcourses quality;while largegeographically environment latter,acrossthree continents which Europe,wasformed variouscivilization mixednature,so systemcourses quality. 中、西方服饰文化特性在上述两种完全不同的文化体系中,作为其组成部分的服饰文化,必然也表现出明显的 差异。 1.2 Characteristics Westernclothing culture Westernclothing culture,a part twototally different cultural systems mentioned above,are characterized cleardifferences. 不同的衣料文化脱离饮血茹毛的原始社会后,人类在不同的地理环境中创造出不同的衣料文化。中国人 很早就开始利用葛、亚麻、苎麻等植物纤维和羊毛等动物纤维来织布,而且早在6900 年前, 就已经开始养蚕织丝。丝绸是中国人对人类衣生活的一大贡献,离开高雅的丝绸就无从谈起。 1.2.1 Different culture dressmaterial After primitivesociety when eating raw birds animals,humanbeings created different dress culture differentgeographically environment.Chinese have made use plantfibers animalfibers like wool etc longtime ago,and 6900years ago,they had begun raisingsilkworms greatcontribution humans’clothes made Chinese,sowe can’t talk about Chinese clothing culture without mentioning elegant silk. 与中国发达的丝绸文化相比,古埃及则主要是亚麻文化,两河流域主要是羊毛文化,印 度是棉文化的发源地。