The purpose of this study is to investigate historical and geographical environments in the development of the Naxi costumes of Chinese ethnic minorities and their characteristics—including religious cultures and totem worship—and to suggest the direction of fashion design toward the modernization of traditional costumes. The research methodology involved the collection of materials and investigatation into the history, culture, and characteristics of Naxi costumes; in particular, the “seven-star” sheepskin cape, one of the Naxi people’s important ethnic costumes as demonstrated by the women’s clothing that has been designed in reflection of this traditional costume. The results are as follows. First, Naxi costumes are found to have overall coherence and distinct locality when retained in the process of modernizing the traditional costume. The theme of this work is titled “By the Light of the Moon and the Stars,” which is expressed in contemporary fashion by the use of grey and dark red against a background of black, a color preferred by the Naxi people. Second, the Naxi people’s seven-star sheepskin cape is a symbol of women’s clothing with its characteristic patterns, shapes, and colors, and it is subject to creative modernization while retaining its unique ethnic characteristics. Third, the work expresses the contemporary stylishness of the costume while maintaining the customary decorative accessories from the Naxi people’s traditional culture.

In this paper, the identification theory based on characteristics of the inner pages is presented for the first time. This theory cannot be ignored in the identification of Naxi manuscripts. The identification theory based on characteristics on the inner pages is divided into identification based on inner page format, identification based on illustrations, identification based on frame and identification based on initials and separators. The rationality of identification theory based on characteristics on the inner pages is confirmed through demonstrations. At last, principles, rules and limitations of identification based on characteristics on the inner pages are summarized. The advantage of this theory is simple and effective, and the disadvantage is too dependent on scriptures inside pages of the style and color.

The research is based on the multi-subject evidence to proving the origin of white couch Garuda symbol in Naxi Dongba Pictograph. According to the relationship between phonetics and semantics of Garuda in Tibetan and Naxi, we found that the archetype of white couch Garuda symbol in Naxi Dongba Pictograph origin from the Garuda of ancient Indian Hinduism and Buddhism and khyung in Tibetan culture, with the spread of religion and culture in Himalaya area, Garuda symbol accepted by Naxi and pronunciation of Garuda in Naxi also borrow from Tibetan. A Probing studies of white couch Garuda symbol in Naxi Dongba Pictograph show us a splendid cultural exchange history of Indian, Tibetan and Naxi, we when probation into the origin of Character in writing system, essential evidence of our point should from inner or outer of writing system , we cant just relay on inner of writing system.