TY  - JOUR
TI  - Research on the origin of clothing from the perspective of the ancient Chinese character etymology and philosophy
AU  - Li, Qiang
AU  - Liu, Anding
AU  - Li, Bin
AU  - Li, Yixiao
AU  - Xu, Xianming
AU  - Tao, Hui
T2  - Industria Textila
AB  - The origin of clothing has always been one of the most important topics in the field of apparel culture research. However,
academics have different opinions on this issue. Based on the dilemma analysis of the three research routes which
include philology, archaeology, anthropology, we can study the essence of the origin of clothing by analysing ancient
Chinese  character  and  philosophy.  The  relative  methods  of  characters  etymology  in  ancient  China,  archaeology,
anthropology and philosophy are adopted in this study in order to further study the origin of clothing. The research shows
that: from etymology research on characters in ancient China, Chinese characters associated with clothing can reflect
the objective needs of clothing-the carrying tools whose material are cortex. From the perspective of philosophical
researches, clothing prototype originated in the cortical belt for carrying in the process of human evolution during the
Palaeolithic. It is an important tool for primitive humans to increase their survival rate. And formed clothing is necessary
for them to get out of the Africa and expand their living space. First of all, this paper systematically demonstrates the
idea  that  clothing  originated  from  tools  based  on  the  analysis  of  ancient  Chinese  characters.  Secondly,  from  the
perspective of philosophy, this paper demonstrates the great historical role of clothing as a survival tool, based on the
viewpoint that the generation of clothing precedes the consciousness of clothing.
DA  - 2021/12/21/
PY  - 2021
DO  - 10.35530/IT.072.06.1763
DP  - DOI.org (Crossref)
VL  - 72
IS  - 06
SP  - 651
EP  - 658
SN  - 12225347
UR  - http://revistaindustriatextila.ro/images/2021/6/11%20QIANG%20LI%20Industria%20Textila%206_2021.pdf
Y2  - 2021/12/28/09:09:30
ER  -