Research on the Application of Ming Dynasty Maritime Silk Road Blue and White Porcelain Elements in Contemporary Fashion Design

Abstract

The Maritime Silk Road was one of the important pathways for early cultural exchange in China.The Ming Dynasty, particularly during the Yongle and Xuande periods (1403-1435), was a prosperous era for Sino-foreign cultural interaction.Blue-and-white porcelain art is not only a crystallization of craftsmanship and trade but also a crucial component of the "fashion system" of that time.Through the combination of color, pattern, and form, it constructed a trans-Eurasian visual fashion network.This paper, via extraction and comparative quantification, analyzes the glaze evolution and coloration principles, body-glaze relationship and firing techniques, and decorative stylistic features of Ming Dynasty Maritime Silk Road blue-and-white porcelain, parsing its aesthetic semantics.It aims to build a design semantics bridge between antiquity and modernity, transforming the "material aesthetics" of ancient blue-and-white porcelain into "cultural symbols" for contemporary apparel and visual design; forming a design semantics system for Eastern cultural fashion, and realizing a regenerative translation from traditional craftsmanship to modern fashion language.