Ethnic Minority Clothing

Introduction of Ethnic Minority Costumes

Do you know how many ethnic minorities there are in China?

China's fifty-five ethnic minorities, distributed in different parts of the country, are not only very different in language and living habits, but also have different dress styles and colors, reflecting the richness of their cultures. Today, Mr. Zhao is going to talk to you about "Minority Clothing".

Let's take a look at the Tibetans:

▓1 Robes and hats

The northern Tibetan plateau is characterized by low temperatures, sandy winds, and vast grasslands and natural pastures, so the people living here need to choose garments that make it easy for them to live and stay warm and protect them from the cold. Tibetan pastoral wear to leather robes mainly, it structure fat, wide cuffs, wearing comfortable, sunny during the day, when the temperature rises, you can take off the sleeve arm, regulating body temperature, the night can be unclothed and clothes and sleep. Men's wide waist, big lapel, fat, lapel, sleeve hem edging. Tibetan hat variety, mainly felt hat, leather hat, gold silk flower hat.

2. Boots

Tibetan men and women pass long boots, the bottom height of 2 centimeters, waist high to above the calf, the upper with red and green tweed decorations, the waist of the shoes also have lines, patterns.

What you see now is the daily dress of the Tibetan people, but in festivals, they will dress up, see, a wide range of decorations in the sunshine glittering, appearing to people extraordinarily spiritual.

Take a look at the steppe people--Mongolian costumes:

1. Mongolian robe:

This is an ancient traditional costume created by Mongolian people to adapt to the pastoral production and natural environment. Collar, lapel, sleeves. Mouth, all have colorful edging. The buttons are mostly embroidered with black tapestries or decorated with special brass buttons. From the right side of the placket, the left side is mostly not open. Men's robes are generally made of dark blue, navy blue or sky blue material; women's robes are made of red, green or yellow satin. Mongolian robe according to the season is also divided into single robe, clip robe, cotton robe and leather robe. Young herdsmen wearing robes and boots, tightly tied belt, appearing stout, swarthy; girls wearing Mongolian robes, red and green silk belt around the waist, can set off the slim body and the beauty of youth.

Mongolian hat:

Mongolian men's first dress. A kind of oval, surrounded by a circle of wide-brimmed hat. Generally made of fine tweed, mostly black, brown or gray. Hat tube high before and after the low, the top of the hat center slightly concave, hat tube and the brim of the hat, decorated with patterned edging. Wear Mongolia robe or suit, with a hat, elegant and beautiful.

Mongolian kangaroo:

Mongolian national costume is one of the supporting clothing. A kind of jacket of Mongolian robe. Mongolian women wear kangs, usually without belts. The kangshi collarless sleeveless, no obeisance in front, the back body is longer, the chest across two rows of buttons or adorned with bands, surrounded by edging, embroidered with bright flowers on the lapel, and adorned with colorful electric sheet, glossy and shiny. Mongolia kangshi began in the Yuan Dynasty. The first for the emperor served, and then popular among the people. To the Ming and Qing dynasties, gradually become an ordinary Mongolian women's clothing.

There is a nation of men and women, young and old, all can sing and dance, do you know what nation?

The Uyghur people are passionate and bold, and their clothing is characterized by: loose style, spontaneous, strong color contrast. Women love to wear wide-sleeved lightweight dresses, clothing materials generally use the famous "Edelweiss silk".

Men's robes called "lined tabs". The right obeisance oblique collar, no buttons, with a long square scarf tie waist. In the past, women more in the wide-sleeved dress coat black lapel undershirt. Nowadays, they often wear western-style short tops and skirts.

Uyghurs, both men and women, young and old, wear embroidered with a variety of patterns of dopa (flower hat). Women like to wear earrings, bracelets, necklaces and other decorations. In the past, young girls have more than ten hair braids, long hair is beautiful. After marriage is generally changed to two, the braid tips spread out, head don't half-moon comb for decoration, there will also be a double braid coiled into a bun.

The TV series "Dae Jang Geum" is a favorite of everyone, right? In the northeast of China, there is an ethnic group, whether it is clothing or living habits are very similar to the people in the "Dae Jang Geum", do you know what ethnic group? Yes, it is the Korean people.

Like Dae Jang Geum, Korean women wear short clothes and long skirts, and in Korean they are called Zelamli and Cheema. Jelangri is a short blouse with an unbuttoned placket tied with a long cloth belt, and Cheema is a skirt with many folds at the waist, usually made of silk. Skirts divided into short and long skirts, depending on the age of the different, long and the top of the foot is more than middle-aged women wear, short to the knee of the more for the girls to wear, walking with the wind, graceful. Men's clothing is a short white shirt with a dark-colored kangaroo. The pants have wide legs, and the cuffs are tied with cloth bands. When they go out, they like to wear a kind of long robe with a slanting lapel, which shows their bold and open-minded character.

Nowadays, most people change to wear uniforms, and the national costume has gradually become a festive wear.

After learning about so many national costumes, let's do a little game, okay?

Appreciation of dolls to learn knowledge:

Teacher here are many dressed in national costume dolls in the picture, according to the characteristics of the national costumes just learned to judge, they are the dolls of which nationality.

These two nationalities have distinctive features in their costumes, which you can see at a glance. There are several other ethnic minorities, although not introduced today, but usually often appear in the song and dance programs, see who can recognize them?

With the development of the times, the dress of various ethnic groups is being assimilated by the Han Chinese, so we need to know more about the national costume, to understand the national culture, to add to our multi-ethnic cultural heritage.