Description of natural environment of She nationality

They "knot Lushan valley, kill wool for tiles, weave bamboo for fences, cut trees for households" and live together. Usually live in thatched houses and houses with wooden roofs. Nowadays, with the change of the living standard of the She people, more and more people are building small buildings. Fire Dragon and Tang Huo are an indispensable couple in the family life of She nationality. Due to the cold climate in the mountainous area, coupled with severe winter and December, the whole family sat around the fireplace to keep warm. There are less paddy fields, more dry land, less rice planting and more miscellaneous grains in the mountainous areas of She nationality. They usually take sweet potato rice mixed with rice as their staple food. Pure rice is only used when entertaining VIPs. They like to eat shrimp skin, kelp and tofu. You like to drink rice wine and ale.

The traditional costumes of She nationality are colorful. The clothing of She nationality advocates cyan, and the material is mostly self-woven linen. At present, the clothing of She nationality men is no different from that of Han nationality, while some She nationality women in eastern Fujian and southern Zhejiang still have distinct national styles. The collar, cuffs and right lapel are inlaid with lace, and there is a habit of wearing shorts and leggings. In particular, women's hairstyles are different from those of the Han nationality. Girls like to tie red wool into their hair, braid it into long braids and wear it on their heads. Married women usually wear decorations, that is, a small and exquisite bamboo tube is wrapped with a red cloth handkerchief, and a foot long and an inch wide HongLing is hung under it. Women of different ages, old and young, also have black, blue or red wool in their hair. The crown is decorated with a round silver medal, and three small silver medals are hung on the card; Hanging on her forehead, the She people call it Longji, which means the rockhopper worn by "Yincui gorge" (according to legend, Emperor Gao Xin betrothed Yincui gorge to Tiger Pan, who had made great achievements in cutting dogs. There is also a silver hairpin on the crown, and it will be particularly gorgeous and dazzling if you put on a silver collar, chain, bracelet and earrings.

Hard-working and simple She women are not only experts in production, but also skilled craftsmen in weaving and embroidery. Their handicrafts are rich in variety, bright in color and unique in style. Such as woven belt, also known as towel belt, that is, flower belt, with diverse patterns and beautiful color matching. Woven hats, with exquisite patterns and exquisite craftsmanship, are decorated with pink ribbons, leucorrhea and various beads, which are more ethnic and are the favorite decorations of She women. Embroidered handkerchiefs or ribbons carefully woven by She girls are the best symbol of love for beloved couples. After liberation, this technology has been further developed and become a sought-after tourism product and export product.

Ribbon and bamboo weaving are the most praised weaving techniques of She nationality. Ribbon is a flower belt, also called a towel belt. She girls have been learning to weave ribbons with their mothers since they were five or six years old. The fineness of ribbon is an important criterion to measure the ingenuity of girls. She nationality region is rich in carnation, bamboo, Dendrocalamus latiflorus and Phyllostachys praecox, which provides rich raw materials for the production of bamboo weaving crafts. Women's dresses of She nationality are slightly different from place to place, and their * * * feature is that there are more embroidery on them. In particular, the blouses of Fuding and Xiapu in Fujian have various embroidery patterns, flowers, birds, dragons and phoenixes on their collars, lapels, clothes buckets and even cuffs. The most important dress of She women is "phoenix dress".