Jiangxi Institute Of Costume: Building The Consciousness Of The Chinese National Community With Costume Memory

Clothing is an important carrier of culture. Learning from the cultural memory of clothing, building cultural confidence and enhancing cultural exchanges are conducive to helping students inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture, building a strong sense of community of the Chinese nation, and consciously undertaking the historical mission of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

In order to promote the education of the awareness of the Chinese national community in the new era, as an application-oriented undergraduate university characterized by clothing education, Jiangxi Institute of Clothing Technology has made students' theoretical cognition continuously improved, emotional awareness stimulated The ability of social practice continued to increase. The key project of Jiangxi Social Science Fund (Project No.: 23KS06) approved by the school has achieved phased practical results.

Improve theoretical recognition

Set up a course group of Chinese clothing culture

The school makes full use of the advantages of disciplines and majors to set up a curriculum group of Chinese costume culture and enhance the theoretical identity of building a strong sense of the Chinese national community.

Set up subject courses. Adhering to the combination of knowledge and value, the school has opened more than 10 clothing courses such as "Chinese traditional clothing and skills", focusing on the combination of external knowledge teaching and internal value interpretation, and integrating cultural memory into various courses of national unity and progress education. Through interdisciplinary cooperation, we will strengthen the organic integration of ideological and political courses and courses, show the essence of Chinese culture in course teaching, tell good stories about clothing culture, cultivate students' awareness of the Chinese national community with cultural self-confidence, and let students truly feel the connotation of Chinese excellent traditional culture.

Attach importance to practical courses. The school adheres to the combination of theory and practice, infiltrates the clothing culture into practice, practice, curriculum design, graduation design, the second classroom and other practical links, and regularly holds exhibitions of teaching achievements and outstanding graduation works. The school has set up traditional skill classes such as embroidery, batik, tie dyeing, brocade, etc., to guide students to combine theoretical learning with practice, build a strong sense of the Chinese national community with practical courses, and build a rich, three-dimensional, real learning scene and field for students, so that students can learn from the real situation for application.

Organize special courses. Adhering to the combination of history and reality, the school held a series of special lectures on "clothing culture and Chinese spirit" relying on the "liberal forum", which not only based on the present, paid attention to the development of the times, but also did not forget the past, inherited the Chinese classics, while based on the forefront of the times, deeply explored the cultural connotation of Chinese clothing, inclusive, conservative and innovative, Let clothing memory become the spiritual force to cast students' awareness of the Chinese national community, foster students' family and country feelings, cultivate their soul, enlighten their minds.

Stimulate emotional identification

Construction of China Fashion Museum

Emotion is the indispensable internal power of human activities. The school has fully exploited the cultural resources of clothing, built a Chinese clothing museum integrating teaching, scientific research and communication, and inspired the patriotic feelings of all teachers and students.

Enrich the contents of the library collection and make emotional identity "real". The School's Chinese Fashion Museum has three exhibition areas: ancient Chinese clothing, ethnic minority clothing, and works of contemporary design masters, as well as special exhibition areas such as Hezhe fish skin clothing production area, She Phoenix wedding area, Miao silver decoration area, Yunjian exhibition area, cheongsam area, embroidery area, plant dye area, textile machinery area, and displays clothing, jewelry, fabrics More than 10000 pieces of batik, embroidery, textile devices and materials. From the "farewell of apes" to the "crown of clothing week" in primitive China, from the "Han crowned the world", "neon clothing and feather clothing" to the "Qing clothing and flag charm", the evolution history of human clothing can be said to be a perceptual history of human cultural development. The Chinese Costume Museum is a spatial memory form that transfers and gathers individual memories carried by costumes into collective memories, allowing students to directly experience the breadth and depth of costume culture, and promoting students to deepen their understanding and recognition of Chinese excellent traditional culture.

Hold science popularization activities to make emotional identity "live". The school gives full play to the educational function of the Chinese Clothing Museum, and regularly holds science popularization activities such as "Clothing Culture Science Popularization Week", "Traditional Textile Embroidery", "Chinese Painting and Clothing Academic Lectures", "Observation and Appreciation of Intangible Cultural Heritage" by using various national non genetic learning halls such as batik, tie dyeing, cheongsam, embroidery, etc., to cultivate students' correct national and cultural views through education and entertainment, It further nurtures good qualities such as loving the motherland, being industrious, brave and determined.

Carry out cross cultural exchanges and let emotional identity "gather" together. As one of the few clothing cultural platforms and science popularization bases in China, the School's Chinese Clothing Museum attaches great importance to foreign cultural exchanges. Since its establishment in 2008, it has received nearly 400000 visitors in total, and has carried out cultural exchange activities of ethnic unity and progress with Zhangping She Township, Guixi City, Shidong Town, Qiandongnan Prefecture and other places to promote exchanges among ethnic groups through clothing culture Exchange and blend. At the same time, the museum has also received experts, scholars and officials from more than 40 countries, including Malaysia and Switzerland, to visit and study, which has played a positive role in promoting mutual learning and exchanges between countries with different cultural backgrounds, and enhancing the international influence and dissemination of Chinese excellent traditional culture.

Enhance practical recognition

Enrich the experience of Chinese clothing culture

Social practice is the basic way for people to grasp the world. Any cognition should finally be put into practice, and experience and perception can be obtained through repeated practice. The school gives full play to its school running characteristics, carries out rich and colorful social practice activities, enhances students' awareness of participation and initiative development, and makes students full of vitality.

Organize dress culture experience. The "culture on the body" experience activity enables participants to experience and understand the rich clothing culture of the Chinese nation, better inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and thus enhance national pride. The school uses the Dragon Boat Festival, the Tanabata Festival, the Double Ninth Festival and other traditional Chinese festivals to organize students to participate in the cultural experience of Han clothing, Tang clothing, Miao clothing, cheongsam and other costumes, so that students can experience the beauty of national costumes. In addition, based on the Fu on Costume written by Yan Qilin, the school compiled and directed the musical Fu on Costume. The public performance was a great success, which aroused strong resonance among the audience, and became a vivid practice for the school to inherit the culture of costumes and promote the national spirit.

Dig deep into clothing culture. The costumes of all ethnic groups in China are rich in historical and cultural elements. The school has set up scientific research platforms such as the "Chinese Clothing Culture Research Institute" to carry out organized scientific research, and actively build and study the theoretical system of Chinese traditional clothing culture by digging deep into clothing culture. At the same time, the school also carried out more than 100 research projects, including "Research on Reform Memory and the Identity of the Chinese National Community", "Research on the Patterns of Cultural Relics Unearthed from the Tomb of Marquis Haihun in the Han Dynasty", and published more than 700 related papers. The establishment of the school's scientific research platform has provided a theoretical guarantee for the creative transformation of Chinese clothing culture, innovative development and the educational practice of enhancing the awareness of the Chinese national community.

Hold professional clothing events. The school gives full play to the characteristics of the clothing profession. Since 1996, it has held 26 consecutive "Runhua Award" clothing design contests, becoming a professional event with greater influence in the industry. Adhering to the mission of carrying forward and inheriting the Chinese excellent clothing culture, the school successfully held six "Red Clothes Workshop Cup" Chinese clothing design competitions. The school constantly displayed the design masterpieces full of the Chinese excellent traditional cultural elements to the society, becoming an important bridge and link for inheriting the Chinese excellent traditional culture and casting the awareness of the Chinese national community.

In recent years, three majors including clothing and clothing design of Jiangxi Institute of Fashion Technology have been selected as national first-class undergraduate majors, and five courses including "clothing ergonomics" have been selected as national first-class courses. The Chinese Costume Museum was rated as the "National Social Science Popularization Education Base" and the characteristic exhibition project of "Respecting Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture" in national colleges and universities. The school was awarded "National Demonstration School of National Unity and Progress", "Advanced Unit of Party Building", "National Ideological and Political Education Training Base for Textile Workers" and other honorary titles by China Textile Industry Federation. (Chen Fulong, Shen Xinjian)

(Source: China Education Daily)