CHEN, Chang-Chih 陳長志

Come, let me take a wedding portrait of you...since the rule of marriage is set by you!

 

It is said that the marriage norms from matriarchal society to patriarchal society in Chinese culture is set by Nüwa. Though Fuxi and Nüwa are different legends in pre-Qin era, after Han Dynasty they became a combination of a pair of Gods with human-heads and snake-bodies with tails coupling. The image composition and forms of tails coupling had also gradually modeled to DNA's double helix.

 

Depending on the era and location, the Gods' hairstyles and costumes have also been changing along with time and adapting with indigenous culture. Demigods from ancient China were wearing the Hu clothing from western Han and Tang Dynasties, as if a drama through time and space.

 

In a global village era of now, why not put on western wedding gowns or cheongsam from Qing Dynasty, or western style clothes, reformed from western military uniform, or even wedding clothes from indigenous tribes.

 

If, it was photography which was invented at your time, would the descendents lose imagination space because of your vivid images? Clothes and style would not have evolved with time, would we have seen the human-head and snake-body physical structures?

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來，為祢們拍張婚紗照吧.....既然婚姻「規」「矩」始於祢們所創！

相傳華人世界從母系社會過渡到父系社會的婚姻規範即由女媧所制訂。

雖先秦時期伏羲和女媧分屬獨立的神話，漢代之後，兩相合併成人首蛇身交尾對偶神。構圖和交尾形式也逐漸模式化為DNA的雙螺旋結構。

依年代及地域差異，二氏的髮型服飾等也隨著時代遞嬗並在地化。眾多考古出土的帛畫呈現此上古中原神人穿著後世漢唐西域的胡服，宛如時空穿越劇。
在地球村的當代，在婚前婚紗攝影創始國的臺灣，何妨披上西洋軍裝改制的西裝，穿著改良自清朝旗服繼民國上海旗袍的中西合璧婚紗。來吧，為祢們拍張婚紗照.....

假設，祢們當時的發明換是攝影術，後世會因祢們明確的形象而失去想像空間嗎?衣著造型不再與時俱進，也不再有人首蛇身的生理構造?那，也就不會有這張雙螺旋結構的婚紗照了。