The Code of Beauty.doc

The Code of Beauty
Through the description on cultural function of the ethnic groups? dresses, we can definitely figure it out that dress has multifunctional cultural meaning. To some extend, it makes itself a special symbol, through which to explain the mysteries of Chinese ethnic groups’ history and culture finally es possible.
In addition to its practical function, the ethnic groups’ dress, in many circumstances, indicates a certain historical event, an opinion, an action or a relationship in the real world and so on. Meanwhile, it may express some emotion, a hope and its motivation, or an imago. The functions to indicate and express have been spread by a special group for a long time and have been gradually standardized, which consequently endows the ethnic groups’ dress with a new function-a bridge munication To study the ethnic group’s dresses in China in the eye of symbolic cultural studies￡’we will find that their dress has the function as a symbol and implicates rich cultural elements. Take the relationship between dress and what it indicates and the function to indicate for instance, òhair bun and braid refer to two opposite ancient ethnic groups in southwest China’s Hunan Province; the colorful clothes and embroidered Headwears worn by Mao ethnic group and Hani ethnic group bear their migration history and the warring times that they have experienced; the feathe