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Chines e cost umes


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Chinese chronologyANCIENT3 Sovereigns and 5 EmperorsXia Dynasty - 2100 1600 BCShang Dynasty - 1600 1046 BCZhou Dynasty - 1046 256 BC

Western Zhou - 1046 - 771BCEastern Zhou - 770 256 BC

Spring and Autumn PeriodWarring States Period

IMPERIALQin Dynasty - 221 BC 206 BCHan Dynasty - 206 BC 220 AD

Western Han - 206BC AD 9Xin Dynasty 9 23Eastern Han 25- 220Three Kingdoms - 220 280

Wei , Shu & WuJin Dynasty - 265 420

Western Jin16 Kingdoms 304 439

Eastern JinSouthern & Northern Dynasties - 420 589Sui Dynasty - 581 618

Tang Dynasty - 618 907Liao Dynasty - 907 1125Song Dynasty - 960 1279

Northern Song 960- 1127

Southern Song- 1127 - 1279Yuan Dynasty - 1271 1368Ming Dynasty - 1368 1644Qing Dynasty - 1644 1911

MODERNRepublic of China - 1912 1949People's Republic of China - 1949 present


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China s contribution

Silk the great discovery of China, approximately 5000 to8000 years ago was the material for the upper classes. It

was also used in festival dress for commoners, and became acoveted trade commodity throughout the region and as faraway as Europe.Two stitches were particularly Chinese in origin, werePekinese Stitch and Peking Knot.


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Chinese symbolism


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Colour importanceYellow- Stood for Center and Earth, it was reserved for the Emperor and his Consort.

Blue- Represented Spring and East, Manchus adopted blue as their dynastic color,the court and dragon robes were worn by mandarins (in the Chinese empire, amember of any of the nine ranks of high officials, each rank distinguished by a

characteristic jeweled button worn on the cap)

Green- It was considered, to be a shade of blue.

Red- Symbolized summer and the south. It had been the dynastic color of the Ming,it was used extremely for weddings and celebrations.

White- It represents autumn and west, but it was associated with death, it was feltto be an unlucky color to wear.

Black- Stood for winter and north.


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Wedding attire


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Few Embroidery stitches used


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ming


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liao


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Priest s Robe


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Manchu women - unofficial semiformal


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Chinese opera

Their Dresses:


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Dress of the Chinese Opera, such as Kunqu and Yiqiong.the costumes came in five general Categories-

Mang python robe for royal familiesPi - casual robe with a symmetrical neckline for the upper classKao stylized form of armor

Zhe casual robe with slanted necklineYi special robe


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Dynastyhttp://china.redcarpetconnection.com/

www.youtube.com

Books:

Chinese textiles victoriaand albert museum - VerityWilsonChinese dress Valery

GarrettWhen silk was Gold Metropolitan Museum of Art - James C.Y. Watt andAnne E. WardwellCostume Worldwide Thames & HudsonChinese Art WernerSpeiser, Roger Goepper,Jean F ribourg


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