Changes of Ancient Costume Culture of She Nationality

Based on historical documents, this paper discusses the changing process of She ancient costumes lengthwise and cultural background of She Nationality in different historical periods breadthwise, this paper combed the cultural changing trace of She ancient costumes during Han-Tang, Song-Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties period. Its entire development and evolution process can be divided into four historical periods: the original time, multi-source integration time, simplicity time in the period of displacing, and acculturated maturity time. The art features of She costumes in different historical periods were discussed in respect of color, style, decoration and so on, along with the effect of She culture and life on the development and changes of She costumes. This paper also analyzed the rules of changes on She clothing in order to extend the attention and discussion of national costume and culture. She costume cultural changes study has some reference to the research of Chinese costume culture, cultural anthropology, ethnology and their cross studies.