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As an important carrier of color culture costumes are a epitome of multiple cultural factors such as national culture, mass psychology, historical background and social environment, and the color of costumes embodies the process of change and development of traditional Chinese philosophical thought and aesthetic views. Today, with the rapid development of digital technology and the emphasis on cultural ideology, the study of colors has gradually moved away from the mere analysis of natural scientific principles to focus more on the underlying national traditions and cultural connotations. The Qing Dynasty was the end of China' s feudal dynasty and the traditional costumes of the Qing Dynasty, influenced by the mutual absorption of multiple ethnic cultures were characterized by rich and colorful ornamentation and exquisite craftsmanship occupying an important place in the history of Chinese costumes. The color palette of the Qing Dynasty not only embodies the traditional "five elements and five colors" that have been passed down through the ages but also provides a constant source of inspiration and color matching for contemporary designers today. The Qing Dynasty drama Yanxi Raiders is popular with viewers for its color palette but many audiences are misled by commercial account media into mistaking the " Morandi colors" for the " Qianlong colors". When faced with a vast amount of cultural knowledge designers are prone to under-absorb and under-transform often resulting in the blind use of color and a lack of cultural connotation in their design work. This paper aims to dig into the knowledge content of the color setting rules of traditional Qing Dynasty costumes for the purpose of color application for designers, and to digitize and visualize the knowledge. The data from the Qing Dynasty costume collections in the Palace Museum and the Museum of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology are selected as the data set for the study from the perspectives of reliability quality authority and comprehensiveness of the data sources and a database of Qing Dynasty costume colors is constructed. Adopting the methodology of the color system the study compares the color name records color design causes color performance and aesthetic characteristics of the Qing Dynasty costumes in terms of both material and immaterial colors based on the records and descriptions in classic Qing Dynasty cultural texts and modern costume color studies. By summarizing and analyzing the cultural connotations and aesthetic values it provides a knowledge structure and content reserve for the digitalization and visualization of a cultural database on the color scheme of the Qing Dynasty costumes. Finally, by analyzing the needs of designers in terms of knowledge acquisition knowledge analysis and knowledge application and combining the common visualization forms of intangible cultural heritage databases an interactive knowledge visualization platform based on the visualization form of knowledge mapping is constructed for the color scheme of the Qing Dynasty costumes. Through the visual mapping designers can obtain information on the cultural imagery chronological background people occasions of use institutions of origin color characteristics and decorative techniques of color application from the knowledge of the color scheme of the Qing Dynasty costumes so as to better realize the modern transformation of traditional color culture. This paper constructs a designer-oriented approach to the study of traditional costume color culture. By studying the cultural connotations and expressive characteristics of traditional color culture it helps designers to organize the color culture of the Qing Dynasty costumes and form a knowledge base of color setting laws making up for the lack of cultural connotations of color in color design. A knowledge base on the color schemes of the Qing Dynasty costumes is constructed and the types of entities suitable for a traditional costume color culture knowledge base are defined. The data from the Qing Dynasty traditional costume collection which are currently from official and reliable sources and of good quality are collected and collated and the picture data and knowledge text are combined and analyzed dialectically to form a diversified data structure and knowledge system which facilitates the management and analysis of knowledge. Based on the visual form of knowledge mapping the construction of a digital platform for designer applications is explored. Traditional knowledge mapping is highly professional and low in interactivity. By analyzing the interaction habits and needs of designers this paper carries out the interaction design of the platform from four levels aiming to help designers better access analyze and apply data. There is a huge amount of documentation involved in the color culture of the Qing Dynasty costumes and the objects selected for study in this paper still have certain limitations. In this paper we select the collections of two typical museums as image resources take into consideration the classic historical texts and classic literary works of the Qing Dynasty and take the literature on Qing Dynasty costume color studies as cross-references aiming to compare the textual information with image resources and strengthen the connection between knowledge and links. However we only select typical cultural objects for regular analysis and summarization which is still not enough to cover the entire cultural knowledge of the costumes and colors of the Qing Dynasty and there is still room for complementary knowledge comprehensiveness and quantitative expansion of content.