The Changes of Ru Skirt in Tang Dynasty Under the Influence of Buddhist Culture

Ting Zhang
2018 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2018)   unpublished
Ru skirt is the basic style of women's dress in Central Plains as well as one of the casual clothes of the Tang Dynasty. Its inheritance of the tradition of native Han Chinese Clothing has not been interrupted, but unprecedented changes have taken place in the process of fusion of foreign cultures carried by Buddhism from the west. This kind of change not only has the breath of Greek human body aesthetics, but also has the imprint of cultural integration of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism and
more » ... the human nature expression under the feudal system and the information which the scene expresses. The integrated round, natural, and sexy romantic style is the Tang people's expression to the ideal beauty in the figure plastic arts. This article combs the development of Buddhism in China's Tang Dynasty, and then discusses the influence of the process of Buddhism eastward on the Ru skirts of the Tang Dynasty, and expounds the Buddhist cultural implications in the changes in the skirts and its reasons.
doi:10.2991/icadce-18.2018.37 fatcat:kpmd6t2ns5a2xmer6savu7b6b4