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The aim of this study was to develop Jiangxi Nuo masks using 3D digital fashion design technology and suggest various ways to utilize traditional culture based on the characteristics of Nuo masks, a traditional Chinese artifact of intangible cultural significance. The researchers conducted a literature review to gather information about Nuo culture and masks that could represent Jiangxi. Features of the masks were analyzed and classified. The result are as follows. First, the symbolic characteristics of Jiangxi’s Nuo masks can be divided into those based on their origin and history, the user’s social status, and the notions of primitive beliefs of the chosen people, such as naturism and totemism. Second, Nuo masks’ splendid decorations convey meanings such as luck, the bixie, longevity, wealth, and peace in the family. Third, playfulness in mask-making is about dismantling the original form of the mask, re-creating it through application. Fourth, the masks express primitiveness mostly by conserving the wood’s original color or material. The initial masks carved to represent images of figures aptly deliver the primitive forms and images of Nuo culture. In this study, Nuo masks were developed and produced using the 3D digital technology CLO 3D by adopting the expressive characteristics and applying design methods such as asymmetricity, exaggeration, and modification. The results of this study demonstrate the possibility of creating diverse as well as economical designs through the reduction of production.

Abstract
I. Introduction
Ⅱ. Nuo Mask of Jiangxi Province
    1. Regional characteristics of Nuo culture and Nuo mask in Jiangxi province
    2. Characteristics of Nuo mask in Jiangxi province
III. Development of Digital Fashion Design
    1. Intention to produce a work
    2. Development of digital fashion design
Ⅳ. Conclusion
References

• Huan Liu(한양대학교 의류학과 휴먼테크융합전공 박사수료) | 유환
• Younhee Lee(한양대학교 의류학과 휴먼테크융합전공 교수) | 이연희 Corresponding author