Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The archaeology of Tang Dynasty costumes has broken through the single dimension of form restoration and become a key path to analyze the power structure, technological network and identity politics of ancient society. This paper takes archaeological methodology as the core, systematically combs through the academic lineage and technical path of Tang Dynasty dress research, and reveals the multi-dimensional social value of dress as a carrier of material culture. Based on the framework of typological analysis, the study builds a spectrum of the evolution of Tang dress forms through the triple corroboration of excavated objects, pictorial materials, and documentary records, and discusses in depth its technical process, institutional norms, and cross-cultural interaction mechanisms. For example, the coexistence of Han-style turban and Tubo mincing belt in Dunhuang murals at confirms the academic value of dress as a "compressed history of civilization interaction", and provides material and cultural evidence for the understanding of the Tang Dynasty's pluralistic and integrated pattern.
Author: Deyue Kong
Institution: Beijing Union University
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4411711119