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How to wear the traditional dress of ethnic minorities?

1, the Dai dress

The Dai dress elegant and beautiful, both practical, but also has a strong decorative meaning, quite reflecting the love of life, and advocate the beauty of the national personality, and folk customs.

The Dai men generally do not wear jewelry, and occasionally found on their wrists have a shiny silver bracelet. Setting gold and silver teeth is their preference. They usually pull out their good incisors and replace them with false teeth made of gold or silver.

There used to be the custom of tattooing, in the chest, back, abdomen, limbs and other places tattooed with text symbols or lions and tigers, unicorns, peacocks and other designs to show bravery or pray for good luck.

The Dai women pay attention to dress, the pursuit of light, beautiful, elegant attire, coordinated clothing colors, extremely outstanding.

Young women have their long hair coiled on top of their heads, which is a remarkable feature of Dai dress. Dai women wear tight underwear of various colors on their upper bodies, light-colored large or narrow-sleeved shirts with opposite flaps, and flower-colored tube skirts on their lower bodies, with various patterns woven on the skirts; Dai women like to pull their long hair up in buns, and insert combs, hairpins or flowers as decorations on their buns obliquely.

2. Jingpo Clothing

Jingpo men like to wear white or black lapel garden-collar tops, wrapped in cloth decorated with lace patterns and colorful small velvet beads, and often go out with belt knives and tube pads. Women wear black lapel, black and red woven skirt and leg wraps.

Dressing up when the women's blouse before and after and on the shoulders are decorated with many silver bubbles, silver pieces, neck hanging seven silver collar or a string of silver chains or silver bells, ears wear longer than the fingers of the silver ear tube, hands wear a pair of or two pairs of thick engraved with flowers of the silver bracelet. The more silver hand jewelry women wear, the more capable, the richer.

3, Achang clothing

Achang clothing is the clothing worn by the Achang people. Achang young men and women like to insert a flower on the head of the bag. These flowers are not only beautiful, but they are also regarded as a sign of good character and purity of heart.

The high bun head is the unique headdress of married women in Lianghe area. In Achang language, it is called "Yakuang". This kind of headdress with self-weaving and dyeing the two ends of the black cotton cloth long handkerchiefs fell beard wrapped around the head of the combed bun, the shape of the high and majestic, more than half a meter high, will be unfolded, up to 5 to 6 meters long.

Men wear a pair of lapel tops, black pants, slanting back "tube of Pa", like to wear a red silk thread knotted chrysanthemums in front of the chest. Unmarried men wear white headgear, married men wear navy blue headgear, young and middle-aged in the back of the head to stay more than a foot long cloth, have the custom of carrying a knife, which is the most famous "Tosha knife".

4, De'ang clothing

De'ang clothing is very rich in their own characteristics, red De'ang and flower De'ang branch of the women's shaved head and then wrapped in black cloth, like to wear large earrings, silver collar, wearing blue and black lapel short blouse, lapel edges set with two red cloth strips, the hemline edge of the red, green and yellow color pompoms decorated with small.

Men wear blue and black lapel tops and wide and short pants, wrapped in black and white cloth turban, mostly white for young people, black for middle-aged and old people, the ends of the turban are decorated with colorful pom-poms, and they also wear big earrings and silver collars.

Women mostly wear navy or black lapel short blouse and long skirt, blouse lapel edged with two strips of red cloth, with four or five pairs of large square silver plate for the buttons, the long skirt is generally on the breast and ankle bone, and weave brightly colored horizontal lines.

Deang women do not keep hair, shaved head, with black cloth around the head, head wrapped around the two ends of the braid such as hair weighing the back, the Tang Dynasty history books describe them as "out of the rest of the hanging back for the decoration.

Expanded Information

National dress refers to the unique characteristics of the culture of each ethnic group, which can also be called local dress or folk dress. In the city life of some nation-states, although people mostly dress up in suits in their daily time, they appear in national dress in festivals, religious ceremonies, state ceremonies and other formal occasions.

Often the marital status, social or religious status of the wearer can be inferred from some of the decorations on the costume. Ethnic dress culture is rich in connotation, including factors such as production raw materials, textile technology, printing and dyeing technology, embroidery technology, pattern, color expression, jewelry craft, cultural value and so on.

In 2008, the ethnic costumes of 15 ethnic groups were listed on the national intangible cultural heritage list.2012 Inner Mongolia released China's first local standard for traditional ethnic costumes, the local standard for Mongolian tribal costumes.

In 2014, the Department of Economic Development of the State People's Committee of the Ministry of Finance undertook a special project, "China's Minority Special Needs Commodities Traditional Production Process and Technology Protection Project, Phase VIII Minority Clothing", to conduct research on the unique craftsmanship of different ethnic groups in different regions and regions in the production of raw materials for clothing, weaving, printing and dyeing, shoes, hats, clothes and ornaments. Research.

For example, the Han people are the main ethnic group in China, and the ancient traditional national costume of the Han people is Hanfu. Legend has it that it was invented by the Yellow Emperor, and from the Western Zhou Dynasty onwards, the Chinese dress already had a basic nature, and by the Han Dynasty it had been fully perfected and popularized. This period until the end of the Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty, the Han Chinese people with Han clothing to the Han Dynasty has a history of several thousand years. Hanfu is one of the world's long history of national costume.

References

Baidu Encyclopedia - Ethnic Costumes

Baidu Encyclopedia - Dai Clothing

Baidu Encyclopedia - Jingpo Clothing

Baidu Encyclopedia - Achang Clothing

Baidu Encyclopedia - Deang Clothing

Baidu Encyclopedia - Deang Clothing

Baidu Encyclopedia - Deang Clothing