Under the background that leisure culture has swept the world and become the mainstream lifestyle, in the past 20 years, leisure clothes imported from the West have flourished in the China market, casting their own brilliance. Here, we can find a typical case of cultural exchange between the East and the West and the evolution of local costume culture.
Cultural communication promotes clothing innovation.
In the era of globalization, with the deepening of international communication, people are discussing cross-cultural contact more and more. Global economic integration, cultural localization and diversification have become the consensus of human sustainable development.
Cultural exchanges between the East and the West have never stopped since ancient times, and they are constantly assimilating and alienating. For example, Wang Jienan, a cultural scholar, said: "Culture has no walls and culture has no national boundaries. Is the same wealth created by human beings. With the development of mankind today, the understanding of nature and society is getting deeper and deeper. The important reason is the cultural exchange between ethnic groups. "
With the change of culture, "in the process of adapting to the new culture, people's behavior patterns have also changed." For example, after the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the introduction of western culture changed clothing from kimono to suit. Another example is: after the National Revolution in China, the change of China's clothing style from jacket to suit is also a symbol of cultural change. " Another scholar, Ye Licheng, concluded. At the end of 1980s, casual wear was introduced into China from America and Europe, which is a clothing phenomenon worth studying-the spread of culture and lifestyle promoted the birth of new clothing categories.
Casual clothing embodies a kind of humanistic care and memory. Nowadays, with the rapid development of science, technology and economy, people are at a loss about the tense life. At the same time, those spirits and beliefs that were neglected in the era of single wealth creation have been paid attention to again, and people began to sit down and examine their hearts, reflect on their over-materialization, and cherish the feelings and natural spirit of the beautiful times of mankind. As a result, a variety of life attitudes coexist and interweave into the main theme of life in the new era, and the leisure clothing culture that can not only wear dazzling colors but also pay attention to internal happiness arises at the historic moment.
As far as lifestyle is concerned, Yuan Yue, a famous market research expert, said that lifestyle has shaped our style and way of playing social roles, and also formed our taste and level. Our study, consumption, investment and career are not only the performance places of our lifestyle, but also influence the evolution of our lifestyle subtly. Lifestyle also determines our consumption patterns.
Indeed, with the development of the world economy and the improvement of people's living standards, the leisure lifestyle that first appeared in developed countries such as Europe and America determines that consumption must be changed and clothing must be innovated. The prosperity of leisure clothing consumption is precisely because of this cultural foundation. For China, the introduction of casual wear has influenced the lives of most people in China, and through the promotion of industry and brand building, it has gradually formed its own cultural character of casual wear in China.
Cultural blending affects the changes of Millennium fashion.
China once created a unique world culture. Until the Han Dynasty, only China could produce silk. Before Zhang Qian arrived in the Western Regions, silk was transported to the western world in large quantities through the Silk Road. As early as more than 2,000 years ago, the Roman Empire had favored silk clothing from China, which was more expensive than gold and greatly stimulated the development of the Silk Road. European gold also continuously flowed into China through the Silk Road, and the Han Dynasty became an important development period in the history of China. The splendid culture of the Tang Dynasty also left a deep impression on the world. So far, the area where European and American Chinese live is called "Chinatown". The flower pattern of rolling grass and rolling branches, which is popular in the handicrafts of the Tang Dynasty, is called "Tang grass pattern" by the world arts and crafts circles.
Cultural exchange is usually two-way. Once, "Hu Fu" promoted the progress of Han costumes, "Hu Chuang" changed the custom of China people sitting on the floor, and "Le Hu" enriched the cultural life of China people. History has proved that every time foreign culture is imported, it brings new ideas and new connotations to national traditional culture and new contents and new leaps to national costume culture.
At the beginning of the 20th century, cultural exchanges between the East and the West also contributed to great changes in national costumes. For the first time in China's clothing history, "foreign things serve China" was realized, which completely changed the dress concept of China people. Since then, China people's clothing has entered an era of internationalization and free change. For example, the elements of cheongsam indicate the infiltration of western culture into women's clothing, but it has not lost the tenderness of the East, but has become a typical representative of women's clothing in China. This product of the combination of Chinese and western cultures has been translated into "Chinese clothes", which is enough to prove the international recognition of cheongsam. Zhongshan suit is also the product of the integration, transformation and innovation of Chinese and foreign cultures, and has become a Chinese-style male costume.
With the deepening of cultural exchanges, people's clothes will gradually change. The process of human boldly pursuing and accepting new culture is the process of the gradual evolution of old clothing concepts. The more new cultural content is accepted, the more obvious the evolution of old clothes is. When cultural exchange and reference reach a certain level, people's clothing will change-a new leap in clothing.
Under the influence of global leisure cultural exchange, modern leisure clothing has entered the life of China people. Nowadays, people in China are always pursuing fashion, and everyone likes leisure.
In the era when interests become idols, the influx of foreign ideas, the reduction of multicultural ecological zones, the questioning and forgetting of local culture by Chinese people, the inferiority of national psychology and even the complete loss of national spirit are all accelerating the stripping of the core of China's national culture. China's culture full of individuality is suffering from both material and spiritual loss. I'm afraid that when the last pass is left, our culture will be uprooted, so it's not alarmist. Is it advanced?
Whether it is the declaration and protection of intangible cultural heritage or the rescue project of folk art, in the final analysis, it is our life-and-death defense of China cultural roots. However, the most fundamental salvation is the transmission of cultural blood from generation to generation. The problem of inheritance should not only be the cry of a few people and the empty blindness of the public. As one of the universal education, can China children's art share the worries of cultural inheritance? Can children's art engrave culture in their minds while shaping some childhood experiences? The experimental exploration in this respect may become one of the great contributions that the art and education circles can make to the culture of China today.
Our culture, our roots
The demise of the nation is first and foremost the demise of her culture. The international competition in the new century has risen from economy to culture, because the victory of culture brings national glory and the power to overcome everything. When a nation loses its own culture, it loses its spirit and soul.
Cultural nationality, the basic feature and symbol of a nation, not only achieves the diversity and difference of human culture, but also conveys its unique cultural style and temperament, which is the lifeline to maintain the existence of a nation. Nationality, as the true spiritual bearing of human cultural achievements, can be accompanied by modernity and internationality, but it always resists assimilation.
Paying attention to nationality is actually a profound understanding of artistic identity rather than oneness.
"Art has been a part of our life from the beginning. All nations, no matter where they are, have an eternal need to seek meaning-connecting time and space, experience and events, body and spirit, reason and emotion. People create art to connect them and express things that cannot be expressed in other ways. " (1) The basic unity of art cannot be confused with oneness, and art also reflects the nationality of culture most profoundly, showing the tension and friction, opposition and conflict between different forces. They tend to go in different directions and follow different principles. "(2) this diversity and dissimilarity does not mean inconsistency or disharmony.
However, culture cannot maintain its current state through physical inertia. It often suffers from material and spiritual changes and decline, and even if its material existence continues, it is constantly threatened to lose its meaning. Under the background of globalization and western countries' cultural strategic offensive, the ecological dilemma and crisis resolution of China's cultural nationality have been revealed in various artistic expressions including fine arts. For example, folk art is on the verge of extinction.
Folk art is the mother culture and popular culture of China, which is original and extensive. As the most traditional and pure carrier of China's cultural nationality, it is no longer a simple art form, but a meaningful symbol-it condenses historical memory, simple national beliefs and emotions, and is in the same strain as China's culture. This symbol enables us to have a deep understanding of our own culture and the life and art of the people of China. However, the lack of urbanization in rural areas in China has seriously damaged the natural ecology and living space of folk art, and many folk art patterns have died out with the end of the old artists' lives. Even though the material expression of art still exists, the part belonging to culture has lacked the flavor of primitive ecology and the magical and dynamic nature and vitality.
Of course, the protection of cultural nationality and materialized results can be carried out in many ways, such as the rescue of museum written records and the original form of folk art schema, but the most fundamental way to save China's national culture is inheritance, or inheritance itself is salvation. Inheritance is related to the survival of China culture, and it is bound to be related to whether China fine arts and its makers can keep their national cultural personality in the future, which has an indispensable influence on the diversity of human culture, just like the realm that China's paintings have reached.
Worry about China's cultural heritage is the inevitable embodiment of our cultural initiative and autonomy after reflection, and it is also our essential concern about the artistic noumenon and the cultural ecology it nourishes, and it is also our deep concern about the great difficulties and challenges faced by local culture.
Inheritance is not a simple copy and cultivation of imitators of traditional culture, but a constant renewal and reconstruction in line with the essence of cultural innovation. Through brand-new rational synthesis and complex reconstruction activities, China culture and art will maintain its long-term vitality without losing the inner spirit and temperament of the Chinese nation, which is the driving force behind it.
Children's Art and Cultural Inheritance
The essence of culture and its relationship with inheritors clearly tell us that children are the core of cultural inheritance.
Since childhood, culture and people are born with deep roots. It seems that soil and climate affect plants and everything in children's environment, such as architecture, music, etiquette, aesthetic orientation and lifestyle. As cultural elements, they all influence them all the time, forming ideas, attitudes and consciousness, internalizing them into a part of life and becoming unforgettable childhood experiences. The forming process of personality and noumenon habit is also the process in which culture and genes melt into life.
If it is inherited from childhood, future citizens will begin to recognize and identify with their mother culture in childhood, which not only conforms to the natural shaping of children's body and mind, but also has early advantages, which is more in line with the educational concept of a progressive society: the more developed the society, the more attention will be paid to the maintenance of cultural nationality. Japan, Western Europe and other countries attach great importance to the education of local culture for children, so as to cultivate national sentiment and cultural discrimination, and train cultural successors from generation to generation through education.
Children's art is the inevitable product of the free expression of childhood experience and the interaction between children's nature and cultural environment, which is completely rooted in a specific cultural environment. In view of this important feature of children's art, educators have great possibility and freedom to inject important elements of China's national culture, such as ink painting and folk art, so that children's art can mold children's hearts and engrave culture on children's personality.
However, the variation of cultural soil and the long-term lack of national culture and art in education have quietly evaporated and faded the life connotation of Chinese culture in the cognition of the younger generation. As inheritors, people have a serious sense of alienation from local culture and national art forms in childhood, which is replaced by the westernization of children's aesthetic taste and even food taste. To some extent, they only have the physiological characteristics and habitual temperament of the race, but they do not have the profound emotional and cultural genetic temperament of the Chinese nation. In addition, the utilitarian value orientation of adults has a negative impact on children's education, which has caused extremely serious difficulties in inheriting reality.
Nevertheless, the pioneers did not stop exploring the road of inheritance, but accelerated the pace, especially the excellent children's art educators. On the premise of respecting the law of children's physical and mental development and the simple natural state of children's art, we can make an experimental exploration on the inheritance of cultural nationality from the perspective of children's art education, which will become one of the great contributions of art education circles to China's cultural inheritance and sustainable development.