Fading Silken Garments – Disappearing Attire

Author: Yue Yongyi, written by, Zhao Shu, illustrated by Luo Xiaomei
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: As a derivative of civilization, clothing reflects accordingly. The handcrafted clothing of agricultural civilization, although lacking the variety and extravagance of industrial civilization attire in form, embodies the genuine emotions—friendship, familial love, romantic love, and kinship—between people, akin to the "thousand-layered sole" of human connections. It acknowledges, reflects upon, and adapts to harsh living environments as perceived today, shows reverence for the vast nature, the unknown fate, and the ethereal deities, cares tenderly for new life, offers blessings and prayers for the elderly, and yearns for a beautiful and harmonious existence. All these aspects are absent from the splendid yet lifeless, price-driven, and emotionally detached fashionable garments displayed in the glass windows of modern glittering malls.