An analysis of traditional Chinese opera costume research on the current status and emerging trends

Opera is one of the traditional arts forms with a long history in China, and traditional Chinese opera costumes have evolved over centuries.This research study investigates traditional opera costume design and seeks to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the current status and emergent trends in traditional opera costumes. For easy access to understanding the current research status and emerging trends of opera costumes within the field of costume design, the study adopts a quantitative bibliometric method for literature analysis using CiteSpace software and China National Knowledge Infrastructure to 1215 articles on ‘opera costumes’ ranging from 2000 to 2022 in the database. The analysis of this paper focuses on the number of annual articles, author collaboration, institutional collaboration, keyword co-occurrence and keyword emergence to analyze traditional opera costumes and discover that analysis techniques offer a comprehensive approach to understanding the current status and emergent trends in traditional opera costume design. This study however suggests that systematic reviews and analyzing the literature related to opera costumes, classifies the current research status, research hotspots and frontier trends in this field, and presents the knowledge map and research information of the literature for researchers and contribute to the advancement of research in this field.