红瑶妇女服饰的符号意义及其文化传承

Symbolic Meanings and Cultural Inheritance of the Costumes of Red Yao Women

服饰向来是重要的文化符号。各民族的服饰不仅是族群意识和族群认同的体现,还是群体历史记忆的物化表征和审美标准的诠释,也传承着民族传统文化。论文以桂北龙胜县境内的红瑶调查资料和地方文献为主要依据,展现红瑶妇女独特的服饰民俗,通过本民族人对服饰的态度和看法说明服饰作为一种文化符号的重要意义,最后指出服饰传统的保存与族群意识的关系。

As an important cultural symbol inheriting the traditional ethnic culture, costumes are the manifestation of ethnic consciousness and identities as well the materialized expressions of historic memory and the reflection of their aesthetic ideas. Based on the data from fieldwork and local litera- ture, the present study is to reveal the unique folklore and the various cultural symbolic meanings of the costumes of Red Yao women in Longsheng, a county located in northern Guangxi. In the end, an analysis is made on the relationship between the heritage of habilatory traditions and ethnic conscious- ness