The Origin of the Wedding Garment

The dowry is a traditional Chinese custom, especially for Han weddings, the bride wears traditional clothing. It is usually made of satin embroidered with gold on a red background, with wide sleeves and narrow waist, and wide pants underneath.

In traditional Chinese customs, the wedding dress is the most important clothing in a girl's life, mostly by the girl herself from childhood to do, until the completion of the marriage, the wedding dress is also therefore hosted all the dreams of the girl's teenage years.　

Anciently, the folk custom of the bride's traditional wedding clothes are: head wearing a phoenix crown, face covered with a red scarf, upper body wearing a red juan shirt, jacket embroidered red robe, neck set collar Tianguan locks, chest hanging demon-detecting mirror, shoulders draped in Xiapi, shoulder satchel a child and grandchildren's bags, arm wrapped in the "fixed hand of silver"; underneath with a red skirt, red pants, red satin embroidered shoes, a thousand charming, a red, happy, happy, happy, happy. A red, joyful.　

Ancient dowry must be customized, hand-sewn to show its precious and unique

In all the dowry, fish skin as a material, yellow and black Herzhe dowry is the most valuable. This kind of dowry is hand-stitched dowry with coarse linen thread, the material is primitive and simple, but the clothing sleeves, waist and other subtle actually hollowed out inlaid with many fine and delicate patterns, the whole set of dowry has a rough and primitive sense of beauty.　

Mysterious Naxi Mosuo people's "walking marriage" custom, the world's attention. This ethnic group of men and women do not get married all their lives, 13 years old will be held adult ceremony. Their wedding clothes by a high inlaid with "star" pattern hat, and back embroidered with "moon" pattern of the blouse. Wearing the "star and moon" dowry means that you can "walk" as an adult.　

The traditional dowry of the Tu people is exceptionally bright and eye-catching, sewn with circles of red, yellow, green, purple and blue cloth, which looks like a beautiful rainbow from a distance.　

And Yao women are proficient in embroidery, and the patterns on their wedding clothes are exquisite and delicate, with a distinctive flavor.