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ntion to combine emotion with reason and pursuit leisure, moderation and ordinary, which pursue the spiritual implication.
C. The Practical Function of the Clothing
Clothing in addition to the above social and aesthetic functions of the human faces of the harsh nature environment, but also must have the ability to adapt to a sunstroke keep out the cold protection and human life action; this is generally speak practical function. this matter as the survival of individual organisms is required. In this regard, Chinese and Westerners, many of the barriers on the way to solve the problem, but its starting point and the utility is consistent.

IV. The Reason of the Differences of the Wedding Dresses between China and U.K.

A. History
Speaking from the historical reasons, if we took the whole European as a large group, it should turn into a history of conquests and dominations between nations as well as peoples. When a nation is powerful and occupies dominant position, its culture and reflecting the dress of the culture will have an affect on the other peoples and nations. For instance, Spain was unprecedented in the 16th century. The Spanish government implements the clothing of Spanish style, and the most typical dress is Raff collar, corselet and bustle. And both men and women add a lot of filler in clothes to model a stiff and mechanical appearance, it is beginning with Spain that men's clothing advocates black. British began industrial revolution in the 17th century, making its men's clothing the earliest towards the modernized direction of development. Since then, British men's clothing has been regarded as a classic. In contrast, the development of Chinese history is basically a vertical development of the various dynasties, little change in territory. This determines the traditional Chinese clothing is not too much 12 change, although absorbing Minority costumes in the history, the dominant position is always Han clothing and culture, even as the Qing Dynasty which forces implementation of the Manchu clothing with the power of the government, but in fact, Manchu is ultimately the same as Chinese in political culture, so the Han clothing culture is derived from the same origin, it is historical continuity and it decides that Chinese clothing could not have happened very unexpected change.
B. Material Culture
The relationship of human to nature is also reflected in the choice of the materials. During the Stone Age, Chinese invented the bone awl and the bone needle and created primitive clothing with the aid of these tools. Approximately 5000 years ago, China was in the Neolithic Primitive agriculture and the textiles industry. At first people use plant fiber, such as linen, ramie, etc., and animal fibers, such as wool to weave. Later they discovered how to raise the silk worn and spin silk, and the pure silk clothes were liked by many Chinese people, especially the wealthy. It is a symbol of their social status. Silk is a great contribution to human life from Chinese people, so it is impossible to talk Chinese clothing culture without silk. Different from silk culture in China, flax culture prevails in ancient Egypt, wool culture prevails in the Mesopotamia and cotton culture prevails in India. Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome have no pioneering work in materials, and they imports flax and wool cultures from Mediterranean coasts and Upper Paleozoic