Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional customs - 600 words of Xing Zi's folk composition

600 words of Xing Zi's folk composition

56 nationalities, 56 flowers. Every nation has different customs and habits, different characteristic houses and special diets, so it should be said that "a hundred miles of different winds and thousands of miles of different customs".

Manchu is one of the 56 wonderful flowers, and its costumes are particularly distinctive. Below, I will briefly introduce it.

Manchu women do not bind their feet. All shoes are embroidered with beautiful floral decorations, and the center of the sole is padded with a wooden heel with a height of 10 cm. Manchu women can walk with their heads held high and their waists swaying in these shoes.

Cheongsam is the traditional dress of Manchu women. They like to wear qipao or vest that is full of feet. Cheongsam is characterized by a standing collar, a large right waist and a slit at the bottom. Ancient cheongsam has pipa lapel, wishful lapel, oblique lapel, piping or hemming, etc. /kloc-improved after the 1920s, with loose waist, wide cuffs and moderate length, which is convenient for walking. It has become a popular dress for women in China. In the early 1930s, influenced by western short skirts, the length was shortened, almost to the knees. In the mid-1930s, the cuffs were shortened and lengthened, and the sides were high. Short-sleeved or sleeveless cheongsam appeared in the 1940 s, and the outside was streamlined. After that, separate the pieces, including the shoulder seam and the sleeveless cheongsam skirt. Cheongsam, with oriental color, can fully show elegance and nobility, and is considered as a typical national costume to express female beauty. Praise the world.

Women's cheongsam is more decorative than men's cheongsam. The collar, front and cuffs are all embroidered. Teeth inlaid with several patterns or colors, commonly known as "drawing roads" or "dog teeth"

Manchu women's clothes are very nice, and Manchu men's clothes are also very nice.

Historically, Manchu men wore horseshoe sleeves with belts around their waists, or double-breasted robes and jackets.

Jacket is a kind of jacket that Manchu men often wear when riding horses. Mandarin jackets can be divided into various forms, such as large lapels, double lapels and pipa lapels. After the mandarin jacket, it became a daily garment covering the robe. High-necked double-breasted, four-sided slit, waist-length, slightly shorter sleeves, robe sleeves can be exposed for three or four inches, and robe sleeves are rolled on the jacket sleeves, which is the so-called size sleeves. Nowadays, many small cotton-padded jackets worn by Manchu people evolved from mandarin jackets. In order to ride a horse conveniently, a robe is put on the outside of it, which is umbilical in length and full of holes.