Yun Lü Xin Yi: Ancient Chinese Innerwear Culture

Author: Pan Jianhua
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: This book breaks away from the traditional boundaries of costume history research and adopts an extremely unique research approach. After providing a brief longitudinal historical overview of ancient Chinese underwear, it focuses on a horizontal, multi-faceted analysis of ancient Chinese underwear. The research perspective is centered on the culture, form, coloration, totems, techniques, and materials of ancient Chinese underwear. It offers detailed discussions on various aspects such as the naming and terminology, inheritance, cultural characteristics, efficacy, design, techniques, styles, patterns, colors, aesthetics, collection, and folklore of ancient Chinese underwear. The book employs interdisciplinary research methods from history, anthropology, folkloristics, semiotics, costume studies, and art design theory, presenting the historical culture and design art of ancient Chinese underwear since the Spring and Autumn period in a dazzling and magnificent manner, highlighting its distinctiveness.
This book breaks through the traditional boundaries of costume history research, adopting an extremely unique research approach. After providing a brief longitudinal historical overview of ancient Chinese underwear, it focuses on a horizontal, multi-faceted analysis of ancient Chinese underwear. The research perspective is centered on the culture, form, coloration, totems, techniques, and materials of ancient Chinese underwear. It offers detailed discussions on various aspects such as the naming and terminology, inheritance, cultural characteristics, efficacy, design, techniques, styles, patterns, colors, aesthetics, collection, and folklore of ancient Chinese underwear. The book employs interdisciplinary research methods from history, anthropology, folkloristics, semiotics, costume studies, and art design theory, presenting the historical culture and design art of ancient Chinese underwear since the Spring and Autumn period in a dazzling and magnificent manner, highlighting its distinctiveness compared to the strict ceremonial attire of ancient Chinese outerwear.
Additionally, what particularly attracts the attention of the academic and art communities is that the book compiles a large collection of ancient Chinese underwear artifacts collected over the years by the author and the Odin Group, many of which are extremely valuable and have never been publicly displayed before. As a research blind spot in both academia and the art world, the publication of this book marks a groundbreaking achievement. Its high-quality research findings and artifact images are bound to cause a stir in both academia and the art world, to some extent, rewriting the history of ancient Chinese costume. The historical and cultural elements of ancient Chinese underwear discussed in the book, along with the timeless and vibrant design elements that transcend time, hold significant practical implications for maintaining the national and global identity of the Chinese fashion industry and the art world.