Research on Digital Identification for Cultural Protection of Yao People Clothing Patterns in Northern Guangdong

Patterns serve as significant cultural and artistic symbols among the Yao people in northern Guangdong, China. They play a crucial role in clothing art, embodying national culture and historical heritage. This research adopts various research methods, including literature research, case studies, and field investigations, to systematically identify patterns found in the traditional costumes of the Yao people in northern Guangdong, China. Additionally, it utilizes semi-structured interviews to analyze, organize, and categorize these patterns within the cultural context of the Yao people in this region. To enhance the understanding of these patterns, digital technology is used to draw and extract vector graphics of the patterns, followed by a comprehensive analysis of their units, color combinations, and compositional features. Furthermore, this study delves into the characteristics, origins, and cultural symbolism behind these patterns. This research aims to improve the digital identification of Yao costume patterns in northern Guangdong, China. The software was also used to extract typical pattern units, and through the combination of basic unit patterns, transform and design a modern pattern series with the style of the Yao people in northern Guangdong. The results of this study are propitious to the protection, digital identification and inheritance of the outstanding traditional pattern culture of the Yao nationality in northern Guangdong, and have high practical value to the future research on the modern digital application of the traditional pattern of the Yao nationality in northern Guangdong.