Characters′ artistic exploration of folk costume in neoteric China

Characters are symbolic systems used to record languages of human beings,and also serve as the mark of the emergency of a civilized society.Characters,as a kind of decorating element on costumes,have their special charm of arts,and are different from the decorative patterns,such as plants,animals,figures,etc.This article takes the neoteric costumes stored in Folk Costumes Museum of Jiangnan University as research objects,and analyzes both characters themselves and their forms and art compositions.Firstly,it makes a brief introduction to the origin and development of characters.Then it and makes classifications and statistics of the characters on modern folk costumes based on definite objects stored in Folk Costumes Museum of Jiangnan University.It sums up both the meaning of characters themselves and the meaning of characters as decorations on folk costumes,along with the art compositions and art meanings of characters on modern folk costumes.