Ethnic culture-inspired fashion show staged to welcome a time of prosperity

Xiaoman ("little ripe") or Grain Buds, the eighth solar term on the Chinese lunar calendar, is a period embodied with hopes, as lives are seen thriving on in the warm breeze and bountiful raindrops of spring.

Echoing this season of luxuriant growth, the Chinese Traditional Culture Museum staged on Sunday, the day that xiaoman fell on this year, a fashion show performed by adult and children models.

Designed by Yang Jie, the clothes incorporated the patterns, stitching features and dyeing techniques of the Miao and Dong ethnic groups living in Guizhou province, inspired by a recent trip of the designing team to the province in Southwest China.

According to the designer, the colors present the changing hues of light and varying atmospheres associated with the several solar terms from early summer to early autumn.

Su Dan, deputy director of the Chinese Traditional Culture Museum, which is located in Beijing, said before the show that costumes constitute an important part of the immensity of cultural heritage, and what people used to wear and now wear carries rich information about the relations between people and nature, and how people define their social roles.

The deputy director said that, therefore, the show was a celebration of history and culture as well as the creative spirit and wisdom arising from people's long-term interaction with other lives in the world.