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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 341 5th International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2019) Analysis on the Artistic Characteristics of the Nu Nationality's "Anu" Costumes Jinyu Yang Journal Editorial Department Kunming University Kunming, China 650214 Abstract—The Nu people are the aborigines of Gongshan 2,000 meters. It is steep in the mountains, the soil is poor, the County on the upper reaches of the Nujiang River in the arable land is small, the irrigation conditions are lacking, and northwestern part of Yunnan Province. Among them, the the forest resources are abundant. Before the founding of "Anu" branch has outstanding regional characteristics, New China, the "Anu" production level was low, and the elegant colors, simple styles and special crafts. It has strong original agriculture of slash and burn cultivation was national cultural connotation and high artistic research value. dominant. The traditional proportion of ploughing Through field investigation and literature research, this paper agriculture was small, and collection and hunting were still analyzes the historical evolution and artistic characteristics of important supplementary means of living materials. At "Anu" costumes, and tries to explain the inheritance, change present, despite the improvement of agricultural production and integration of "Anu" costume culture against the technology and the improvement of traffic conditions, the multicultural background. living environment and living standards of Anu have been Keywords—"Anu" branch; "Anu" costume; artistic greatly improved. At the same time, due to the population characteristics; costume change; costume fusion growth and the problems and difficulties brought about by the return of farmland to forests, etc., Anu is facing increasing pressure to survive. I. INTRODUCTION The Nu nationality identified in the early days of the Apparel is a unique cultural phenomenon of human founding of New China (1950-1987) is mainly living in beings and a dual crystallization of material culture and Lushui County and Lanping Bai and Pumi Autonomous spiritual culture. Apparel is gradually formed in the long- County (hereinafter referred to as Lanping County), Fugong term historical development process, and at the same time, County, Gongshan Derung and Nu Autonomous County clothing has evolved with the development of society. The (hereinafter referred to as Gongshan County) under the exchange and integration of different national costume jurisdiction of the Nujiang of the Lihsu Autonomous cultures is one of the decisive factors, that is, the frequent Prefecture of Yunnan Province. The Nu people in our cultural communication and penetration [2]. Apparel has the country are mainly composed of four branches, namely, functions of recording history, searching for the roots, "Nusu" or "Nuosu", "Along", "Ruorou" and "Anu". Among inheriting the tradition, ceremonial symbolism, education them, "Nusu" or "Nuosu" mainly live in the area of Pihe and ethics, and is an important part of national culture. Township and Zilijia Township of Fugong County. "Along" Apparel has a strong national character. Different ethnic is mainly distributed in Shangpa Town, Lumadeng Township groups not only have different production characteristics, and Jiakedi Township of Fugong County. "Ruorou" is customs, languages and beliefs, but also have obvious mainly distributed in Tue Township of Lanping County and differences in clothing. As a kind of cultural carrier, Nu Luzhang Town of Lushui County. "Anu" is mainly clothing is one of the main signs of the difference between distributed in Bingzhongluo Township, Pengdang Township the Nu and other ethnic groups, and it is an important aspect and Cikai Town of Gongshan County. [1] In addition, there of the performance of the customs of the Nu. Nu clothing are a few "Anu" residences in Chawalong Township, Deyin culture occupies an important position in its national County, and Weixi County of Yunnan Province. The psychology and has been passed down from generation to Bingzhongluo area where "Anu" is mainly concentrated is generation. At the same time, national costumes have been located in the remote area, and the traffic is extremely affected by many factors such as historical development, inconvenient. Before the introduction of Tibetan Buddhism, social changes, lifestyle changes, and cultural exchanges there was very little interaction with other ethnic groups in among ethnic groups. On the basis of inheritance, they have the outside world, and it was almost in a state of isolation. changed and developed. In addition, the Nu people have four Since the founding of New China, especially after the different branches, which make the Nu costumes show their opening of the Gong-Bing Highway (Cikai Town to unique characteristics. The Nu clothing can be classified into Bingzhongluo Township in Gongshan County) in April 1991, four modes, namely "Nusu" or "Nuosu", "Along", "Ruorou" this state has gradually been broken. "Anu" mostly lives in and "Anu" modes. The Nu people in the Bingzhongluo area the mid-mountain section with an altitude of 1,500 meters to of the Nujiang River belong to the "Anu" branch of the Nu Copyright © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). 349 Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 341 people, so only the clothing of the Anu branch is discussed wool, cotton, and acrylic based on the traditional hemp here. spinning process. The fabrics are beautifully colored, and the woven blankets are known as "Nu multi-colored blankets." II. THE HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF ANU COSTUMES Nowadays, it is difficult to find Anu's traditional costumes in the Bingzhongluo area. Nowadays, the Anu costumes have Due to the poor traffic conditions in the Anu area and the undergone major changes compared with the traditional Anu long-term isolation from the outside world, the economy and costumes. From the appearance of Anu's clothing materials, culture are relatively backward. These are expressed in cotton fabrics, polyester fabrics, etc. have been used to national costumes, wearing simple styles and rough fabrics. replace the self-woven fabrics. In the literature, the written In the late Ming Dynasty, the Lihsu people moved into description of Anu clothing is extremely simple: Nujiang in large numbers, bringing the technology of planting hemp and hemp cloth to the Anu area. Since then, "Anu women use the headscarf as jewelry, braided with linen has become the main raw material for Anu clothing. red, green and black woolen hair bands on the headscarf, Before the founding of New China, Anu's clothes were decorated with delicate bamboo tubes, wearing a linen gown, mainly made of homemade linen, so Anu women must learn or a vest, like a rattan ring wrapped around the head, chest techniques such as planting, stripping, spinning, weaving, etc. and waist, a Nu carpet on the waist, and ordinary trousers on from an early age. After the founding of New China, Anu the lower body. Anu men wear a linen gown and wear clothing has undergone great changes. The main change is ordinary trousers. The adult man has a long knife on the left the material of the clothes, replacing the previous linen with side and a bow on the right shoulder and an arrow bag. [4] cotton cloth, polyester fabric, and the like. According to Anu's old man, long ago, the clothes of Anu women and men III. THE ARTISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF ANU were all made from the hemp of their own family and then TRADITIONAL COSTUMES woven into linen. Later, the Tibetan caravans came from the outside, and the wealthy people in the village bought cotton According to the author's field investigation, in order to from the Tibetans or bought the Tibetan costumes directly. adapt to the changes of climate in different seasons and the Since the beginning of the founding of New China, a small needs of production and labor, Anu women's clothing has number of cloths have been sold in the small markets of been adjusted to varying degrees in different seasons. The Gongshan County and Jiasheng in Nujiang. However, at that author divides Anu women's clothing into the following time, the vast majority of the village's anger was very poor, three types: and they could not afford cotton at all. Therefore, they could First: "Dianga" (Anu language): That is black or cyan only rely on their own sewed clothes. In the Gongshan cotton shirt, sleeveless, the clothes are divided into two cultural and historical materials, there are the following fronts and back, the front piece and the back piece are as records: long, to the crotch, do not need a belt. This is the clothes that "The ethnic minorities in the Gaudich region, men and Anu women wear when they work on weekdays. The women wear linen, are women's own textiles. In addition to advantages are simple style, dirt-resistant, short and light. their own use, they can also be worn by men. Every family Second: "Xiangze" (Anu language): It is a blue or cyan has cannabis, mature, boiled and cleaned, then weaved into double-layered cedar with sleeves. The long gown is divided threads and cloth. The family needs to put two wooden sticks into two pieces, the front is short, just over the lower in front of the door, put two bamboo poles on them, fix them abdomen, and the back is long and knees. At the interface is with ropes, and then insert the hemps vertically and a square piece of red edging cloth. The young Anu women horizontally, each of which is up to 6 inches wide. After like a colorful striped Tibetan belt. The belt is a Tibetan-style weaving, we will sew together, called Yinbu, which is the colored strip with a width of about three inches.

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