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出版社,2009.[17].[J].北京:.附 錄附錄1Clothing and Performing ArtsPerformance, known as performing arts, is a kind of demonstration of people’s lives by way of singing, music instruments playing, body movements or facial expressions to build images and express feelings. Typical art is mainly categorized as music and dance. And there are also others , like movies, TV programs, plays, drama, opera, folk arts and acrobatics. They all e from the simulation of people ‘s daily life, emotions, actions and movement patterns of nature ,but also condensation and distillation of people ‘s life and nature .Based on the everlasting truth that performing arts e from the real life ,we begin to probe into the questions: what is the function of clothes in the portrayal of artistic characters and what is the relation between clothes and performing arts….Possibly it is the spirituality covered by colorful and gorgeous clothes under which the active life shows us a fascinating and illusionary world of performing arts! Dance sprouted as early as in the distant past. At that time dance was simply some movements of the limbs without any fixed patterns .However, it was just the simple tail decorations that made the dance in perfect uniform with a faint sense of beauty. In those dances like the animal imitation dance with witchcraft and sorcery, the musical dance holding feathers in hand in sacrificial ceremonies , and the royal court dance with long sleeves waving in the air, dancers’ costome played an important role in making the dances more colorful and brilliant. Today, a suit of welldesigned dancing costume is still an indispensable supplementary means for dances to beautify their motions and express their feelings .The beautiful dance of The raiment of Rainbow and Feather held its audience spellbound, including the emperors as well as many highranking officials, while even many modern people couldn’t help imagining the fairy palace in heaven. Dancing and costumes are inseparably interconnected, each improving by association with the other. Dancing is the distillation of costumes, while costumes are endowed with life in dancing.Music and clothes are like twin flowers, as the marvelous music touches people’s hearts with the help of beautiful clothes, the latter attracts the audience with the pleasant music, Just as the tailcoat at the concert and the sentimental music on the fashion show, the harmonious coexistence of music and clothes presents us a feast for sights, Rock music ,which influenced a whole generation of the Americans with its powerful shock on mind. The form of music, no matter hippie or punk, Hiphop or Metallica, is still restless. But the vogue and dazzling dresses on the strongest sound of a perfect bination of clothes and music. Clothes are the visualized music and music helps to express the spiritual connotation of clothes.Movie as a fashionable trend, driven by a force of culture, began to influence the trend of clothes ever since 1912, Compared with music and dance, movies a relative lateer. However, by creating a dreamland with the aid of light and shadow, its influence on the modern people was rather great. Movies not only changed the life of modern people, but also bridged the gap between people and fashion. Promoted filmmakers and fashion designers, film stars began to lead the fashion and the red carpet of the award ceremony became the catwalk of fashion shows. The pursuit of fashion from movies is more than the movies themsives . Movies, through their vivid characters under the charm of clothes , had a longstanding influence on fashion trends. While fashionable clothes inspired by movies , took the leaf in fashion trend .Nowdays , in order to get mutual benefit of both movie and clothes more and more movie directors ,both home and abroad, spend millions of dollars on making fashionable movie costumes.With a development of over 800years,the unique form of the traditional drama, Chinese opera, has formed a relatively plete artistic system. The traditional theatrical costume, known as “Xingtou”, is another wonderful flower in the treasure house of the Chinese clothes. Xingtou is the beautification and artistic recreation of ancient clothes. It presents characters by various colors and different patterns. Thus it forms a whole set of partic