Analysis of the Cultural Implication of Female Opera Performer Costume in the Painting Playing the Flower Drum of Song Dynasty
The painting"Playing the Flower Drum"in the Southern Song Dynasty truly reappears the scene of the Song Dynasty female opera performers wearing men's clothes.Some scholars point out that the two actors'men's clothes have the characteristics of"putting on men's clothes carelessly over women's clothes",but few scholars further analyze the motives and social significance of their clothes.Based on this,this paper,adopting the research methods of iconology and concept history,analyzed the images,the cultural implication of the female performers in the drama wearing men's clothes from the perspective of women and social concepts in the Song Dynasty.It is believed that the behavior of the female performers wearing men's and women's clothes was not hasty,but had the function of creating humorous characters,and the social significance of highlighting female roles and showing female self-consciousness.
"Playing the Flower Drum"Song dynasty costumeswomen's clothinghistory of ideascostume culture