Overview of clothing festival

Dayao costumes are mainly popular in Dayao, Yao 'an, Yongren and other counties in the northwest of Chuxiong Prefecture. There are different styles of women's wear, including clothes and trousers with large double-breasted buttons, and clothes and long skirts with double-breasted buttons. Women's dresses in Dayao, Tan Hua and Santai are colorful, and their tops are mostly made of red and blue satin with black, yellow and red lace. At the same time, three layers of flowers are tied around the waist, and colorful spikes are embroidered on the hood. Middle-aged and elderly women also wear fancy clothes when dressing up; Usually most of them wear Tsing Yi, and they like to wear sheepskin robes. Girls wear silver earrings. In Yaoanmen and Guanglu, women's clothes are short and simple, and only a group of moire patterns on the right front are very eye-catching. The osmanthus girl in Dayao wore a double-breasted dress with short front and long back, embroidered leg covers and a floral skirt with a black background. The chest and back of the coat are inlaid with various geometric patterns, and the skirt is also inlaid with several horizontal stripes. The style is rough and simple, which is rare in other types. The girl was wrapped in an embroidered handkerchief and a green handkerchief after marriage. Dressing headgear is often decorated with seashells, silver flowers, silver bubbles, or colorful long spikes, which is the legacy of "decorated with seashells and dragonflies [chēqú]" and "hanging tassels" in ancient times. Dayao women like to use suede satchels, and men wear suede [jǐ] skin for their stomachs.

Yi costumes are colorful and unique in style. Historically, due to the numerous branches of the Yi people; Living in scattered places, therefore, there are obvious differences in clothing, different styles and strong regional colors. In many areas of Liangshan, the seasons are cool and the climate changes little, so Yi people's clothing has no seasonality, and they wear Chaerwa (sweaters) all year round. After storing hair, Yi girls comb their braids vertically to the back of their heads. When he was eight or nine years old, he tied a single braid on his head, with red cotton thread at the end, and sometimes an arched wooden comb as decoration. When you get married, you will split the double braids and cross them on the headband. If you are not married and have reached the age limit, you can also comb your hair again another day. Young people in Zhizha area wear red and blue embroidered headscarves, while in Eno area, one or two meters of blue cloth is folded into several layers on their heads. The area is a long green cloth with flowers on the side and folded on the head. In all three areas, handkerchiefs are changed after giving birth. Saint Chahar and enoch were replaced by hats in the shape of lotus leaves, and the local technology was a green cloth dome made of bamboo. It is also useful to wrap the head with a long black cloth, about 3 cm wide and coiled around the head, about 10 cm. The more prominent, the more expensive. For example, the former black Yi aristocratic women, whether they are adults or not, are universal. Before a woman was a minor, she often hung red and green beads the size of peas on her ears, tied them into a string with four iron wires, three or four centimeters long, and wore red cotton thread in her ears. Or wear a small red stone ring, wear it in the circle and hang it between your ears. Earrings are only worn when you are an adult or wear double braids. Earrings include coral, silver bubbles, tremella beads, jade, shellfish and tremella, most of which are round stars. There are many styles of silver or copper. The most common are triple or quadruple combinations of flower buds and embedded red beans. In the old society, black Yi aristocratic women often wore inverted pedicels. There are five thin ribbons made of silver wire hanging down, and each end has a round pendant, which is swaying chic. The collar is an independent part and is not connected with the coat. Decorated with silver bracts, the front button has a rectangular or plum-blossom collar button in the middle.