What does comic cosplay mean?

Comic cosplay means role-playing, that is, using costumes, ornaments, props and makeup to play the role in animation works or games.

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1, basic concept

In a broad sense, Cosplay is mainly used to interpret myths and legends, folk anecdotes, holiday stories and literary works. And present the interpreted characters and contents with corresponding costumes, props and information. Cosplay in a narrow sense refers to the role of imitating and dressing up the virtual world. Through the collocation of costumes and props, plus makeup modeling, body language and so on. Play the role you like, and be loyal to the original work, so that it is similar in shape and spirit.

2. The origin of the activity

In a broad sense, the origin of Cosplay comes from the interpretation of myths and legends, folk anecdotes and so on. At first, there were priests dressed in ancient Greece, and then there were two great Greek epics, Iliad and Odyssey. Among them, a group of minstrels were active in the eighth century and played the role of others.

The former became the prophet and seer of later generations and successfully explained the existence of God's apostles. The latter, like the originator of modern drama, performed some heroic deeds in a superb way. After that, the nomadic gypsies in Europe were also the earliest costume performers. The ancient ancestors of China also had a long costume culture, and this representative activity was the dragon dance ceremony.

Many people may think that the origin of modern Cosplay is in Japan, but Mickey Mouse, the actor of American Disneyland, should be the true ancestor of modern Cosplay. /kloc-During the 0/7th century, the appearance of magic slides made animation popular in Central Europe.

Mickey Mouse was born at the end of 1968+0930, and Disney Group established the world's first Disneyland at 1955. In order to better publicize and attract tourists, Disney also invited employees to wear Mickey Mouse costumes for tourists to play or take photos. Therefore, this group of "Mickey Mouse" transvestites should be the true ancestor of Coser all over the world.