During the 14th-17th century,spanning over the Yuan,Ming and Qing Dynasties,was a re-gime changed period in China,while the indigo color was remained as the main official dress color and Indi-go also had gradually become one of the important agricultural cash crops,there were three main reasons be-hind it.Firstly,citizens'consumption drived the indigo market.The blue cotton fabrics and blue calico dyed with indigo were beautiful and utilitarian,which were in line with the needs of the public at that time.The growth of the citizen class and the improvement of textile technology and dyeing technology made the pro-portion of blue indigo cotton fabric in clothing consumption expand.In addition,in the Ming and Qing dy-nasties,the official control over indigo gradually weakened,and the indigo production among civilian was full of vitality.Secondly,the cultural identity reflected by costumes dyed with indigo which was mainly man-ifested in official and folk aspects such as ritual symbols,literati aesthetics,customs and habits,which not only promoted the consumption of indigo,but also further consolidated the important position of indigo in the consumption of vegetable dyes.Thirdly,the formation of more mature system of Chinese traditional indi-go planting,making and dyeing technology solved the problem of its market supply at the technical level af-ter the Ming Dynasty.This covered the production and processing of bluegrass,the production and dyeing of indigo,the innovation of high-yield and efficient indigo making technology in the Ming Dynasty,the improve-ment of the"standard indigo vat"system and the complex cross-color dyeing technology system,and the re-gionalization of bluegrass planting and processing system.In a word,this paper guided by the market,based on the cultural identity and supported by the complete production,processing and application technology system,and interprets the reasons why indigo gradually became a traditional vegetable dye with the best production and marketing in China from the 14th to the 17th century.
consumer marketcultural identityindigo dyeing technologyindigo production
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