Characteristics of Dai Clothing

What are the characteristics of Dai costumes? The Dai costumes are quite unique among the national costumes, especially the costumes of the Dai girls are very graceful and elegant. The women's costumes are basically the same as in the past: the upper body is elegant, the lower body is red and flowery, the head is wrapped, and all kinds of flowers, combs or decorations are inserted into the hair. The difference is that the quality of materials, colors and varieties, the style of clothing, etc., have been greatly improved.

They generally like to wear scarlet tight little undershirt (chest sewn with a variety of colors of lace), the outside wearing a tight short top, round neck and narrow sleeves, there is a large lapel, there are lapels, there are light red, light yellow, lime green and sky blue, etc.; the bottom wearing a tube skirt, all the way to Qiqi dorsum, bright and beautiful colors, most of them are made of silk, satin, indeed, nylon, and other materials sewing. They wear a fine silver belt at the waist, which is more than one inch wide. Women's clothes, tube skirts are tightly wrapped around the body, the lines of the human body outlined more smoothly.

Men's clothing, generally wearing collarless lapel small-sleeved shirt, wearing long pants, with white, blue, red cloth head. In recent years, there is a collar lapel or lapel small-sleeved shirt, head scarf changed to aqua, green, pink silk, pants remain the same. Historically, Dai youths have been free to fall in love, and the time for them to fall in love is mainly in the days after the end of the fall harvest when they are free. The Dai youth fall in love with a variety of ways to find objects

What are the festivals of the Dai people. And living habits, the characteristics of the dress The Dai have a population of more than 1.62 million people, including 1.014 million in Yunnan, mainly living in Xishuangbanna Prefecture and Dehong Prefecture. The Dai are also found in more than 30 counties, including Gengma and Mengding in Linxing, Menglian in Simao and Xinping in Yuxi. The Dai ancestors were one of the ancient Hundred Yue, and were called "Dian Yue" and "Shan" in the Han Dynasty. After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there were many other names such as "Golden Tooth", "White Clothes" and "Pendulum Yi", but they called themselves "Dai", which means they love freedom and peace. It means people who love freedom and peace. The Dai are divided into Water Dai, Dry Dai and Flower Waist Dai.

The Dai have a long history and a rich and colorful culture, with their own calendar, language and writing, and are known for their rich national folklore. Music, dance, folk songs, folk tales and stories are rich in national characteristics and have a wide influence. The Dai people mainly live in the tropical and subtropical dam areas, villages and cottages are mostly near the rivers and lakes, and each household usually has a bamboo building, surrounded by bamboo fences, fruit trees, bamboo, and a very beautiful environment. The surrounding fields are fertile and rich in specialties. The Dai people are gentle, love song and dance.

Some people say that the Dai women's dress, is the world's most beautiful, it is like the peacock open screen, colorful, beautiful, breathtaking. Anyone who knows the situation feels that this is not an exaggeration at all. Dai women generally grow up with a slim figure, face pure and delicate, look tingting jade, elegant, therefore known as the "golden peacock" of the United States. They are not only beautiful, but also good at dressing up, with unique clothing to dress themselves up one by one like a flower like jade. Dai women generally like to wear narrow-sleeved short clothes and uniform skirts, fully displaying their long and slim figure. Wearing a hundred-color or scarlet underwear on top, outside is a tight-fitting short blouse with round neck and narrow sleeves, large lapels and buttons, in various colors such as water red, light yellow, light green, snow white and sky blue. Nowadays it is mostly sewn with georgette, silk, indeed cool and other materials. Narrow-sleeved short shirt tightly over the arm, a few sections without a little space. There are many people also like to use flesh-colored on the material sewing, if not look carefully, can not see the sleeve, before and after the lapel just waist, tightly wrapped around the body, and then a silver belt tied to the short-sleeved shirt and skirt mouth, under the long to the back of the feet of the unity skirt, waist slim and small, wide hemline. Dai women's attire, fully demonstrated the female chest, waist, buttocks "three" beauty, plus the use of soft fabrics, bright and colorful, no matter walking or doing things, all give a person a kind of graceful, elegant and elegant feeling.

Dai men generally wear collarless lapel or lapel small-sleeved shirt, wearing long pants, with white cloth, green cloth or scarlet cloth head, some wear tweed brush hat, appearing dashing and generous.

The Dai people, both men and women, always like to go out with a satchel made of brocade on the shoulder (tube pas). Satchel colorful, simple style, with a strong color of life and national characteristics. Patterns of rare birds and animals, trees and flowers or geometric shapes, the image of realistic, lifelike. Each pattern contains specific content, such as: red, green is to commemorate the ancestors; peacock pattern indicates auspiciousness; elephant pattern symbolizes a bumper crop and a good life, which fully expresses the Dai people's desire and pursuit of a better life.

The festivals of the Dai people mainly include the Open Door Festival, the Close Door Festival, and the Dragon Sending Festival, etc., of which the grandest one is the Water Splashing Festival. The Water Splashing Festival is a traditional festival for the Dai people to send the old and welcome the new, and people believe that sprinkling water on each other can eliminate disasters and difficulties, and bless each other. In addition to mutual blessing, young men and women also splash water on each other as a play. The festival also held a pile of sand, throwing bags, put high up, dragon boat races and other activities. At that time, guests from all over the world gathered in Xibanna and Dehong, lively and unusual.

Dai Customs

The Dai are distributed throughout the Simao region, with Jinggu, Menglian, Lancang, Jiangcheng, Pu'er, Mojiang and Simao in the majority. The Dai of Jinggu and Menglian are of the Dai branch, the Dai of Lancang Mangjing and Mangna are of the Dai bandage branch, and the Dai of Jiangcheng Tucahe are of the Dai Shehao branch. Jinggu Dai mostly live in cottage, adobe structure, with thatch or tile cover, into the door for the center hall, set up cooking, cooking tea, heating with the fire, supported by iron tripod, the hall in the bed for guests, the center of the hall around the two compartments of the small room for the master of the bedchamber. The structure of the house has two kinds of floor-type and dry-fence type, the dry-fence type of palm, upstairs living, downstairs off livestock, stacking firewood and tools of production. Dry type houses are warm in winter and cool in summer, with bamboo and wood as building materials, mainly miscellaneous wood, mostly with red hair tree, cone chestnut tree, black wattle tree when the column, bamboo or wood as rafters. Roof cover grass row or plate tile, houses are divided into upper and lower two layers, the upper floor with wooden planks or bamboo fence wall, the building has a sun deck, Menglian, Lancang, Jiangcheng whole Dong and other places where the Dai live in the dry bar type house. Jiangcheng Tuca River Dai She Hao branch of people living in the floor type chicken cage room.

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What are the characteristics of the Dai dress? The Dai dress in the national costume is quite characteristic, especially the Dai girl's dress is graceful. The women's costumes are basically the same as those in the past, with the upper body of the clothes being light and elegant, the lower body being red and flowery, and the head wrapped in a bun, with all kinds of flowers, combs or decorations inserted into the hair. The difference is that the quality of materials, the variety of colors and the style of clothing have all been greatly improved. They generally like to wear scarlet tight little undershirt (chest sewn with a variety of colors of lace), outside wearing a tight short top, round neck and narrow sleeves, there are large lapels, there are lapels, there are light red, light yellow, lime green and azure, etc.; the bottom wearing a tube skirt, always long flush with the back of the foot, bright and beautiful colors, most of them are made of silk, satin, indeed, kelp and other materials sewing. They wear a fine silver belt at the waist, which is more than one inch wide. Women's clothes, tube skirts are tightly wrapped around the body, the lines of the human body outlined more smoothly. Men's clothing, generally wearing a collarless lapel small-sleeved shirt, wearing long pants, with white cloth, blue cloth, red cloth wrapped head. In recent years, small-sleeved shirts with collars and lapels or large lapels have appeared, and the headscarves have been changed to aqua, green and pink silk, while the pants remain the same. Historically, Dai youths have been free to fall in love, and the time for them to fall in love is mainly in the days after the end of the fall harvest when they are free. The Dai youth have a variety of ways to fall in love and find a partner.

Characteristics of the Dai Dance Costume Characteristics of the costume: the upper half of the body is a navel undershirt, the lower half of the body is a long narrow skirt.

All kinds of Dai women's costumes can show the beautiful and slender posture of women.

Dai women love to keep long hair, bundled at the top of the head, some with combs or flowers as ornaments, some wrapped scarf, some wear a high cylindrical cap, some wear a big hat with a pointed top, each presenting its own show, each showing its beauty, quite chic. Rich in tropical and subtropical charming scenery of the Dai dress, but also unique national characteristics.

Dai men generally like to wear collarless lapel or lapel small-sleeved short shirt, under the long tube pants, more white cloth, Yonghong cloth or blue cloth head. There is a common custom of tattooing as a part of body decoration. Tattoos have tigers, leopards, elephants, lions, dragons, snakes and other animals or scriptures, gossip, lines and other patterns.

Women's dress varies from region to region.

Dai women around the Dehong area, before marriage, more light-colored lapel shirts, wearing pants, a small girdle, after marriage, wearing lapel shirts, floral or black skirt.

The Dai women in Xishuangbanna are wearing white, enamel or sky blue tight underwear, large lapel or lapel narrow-sleeved shirt with a round neck, and the lower body is mostly a flower-colored long skirt.

Dai women everywhere are very concerned about hair accessories. Young women have their hair knotted at the top of their heads, and some have their hair tied behind their heads. On weekdays, more than in the hair on the tie to Pa or insert comb, cold days is the top of the flower headscarf. If the festivals and celebrations, the girls especially love in the hair will be decorated with flowers and sprinkled with perfume, and then put on with satin, nylon, corduroy, gold velvet and other sewing fine dress, dress up, more charming. After bathing at the well by the river every time, the body is slender. Slim Dai girls, the black shiny hair bun coiled in the back of the head, in the tight short shirt and flower tunic skirt buckled between the silver belt, pavilion, like the classical ladies charm.

What are the characteristics of the Dai people's dress and customs. 40 points, the village is mostly in the flat dam near the water. The dry-fence buildings and bamboo buildings have a unique style. Diet to rice-based, Xishuangbanna and other places of the Dai love to eat glutinous rice. They like sour and baked aquatic food. They are addicted to alcohol and betel nut.

Men's clothing on the collarless lapel or lapel small-sleeved short shirt, under the long tube pants, more white cloth, water red cloth or blue cloth head. Women's costumes vary from place to place. In Xishuangbanna, women wear tight-fitting undergarments, large lapel or placketed shirt with a round neck and narrow sleeves, and flower-colored long skirts underneath, with their hair tied at the top and combs or flower headscarves inserted. Dehong Dai women before marriage to wear white or light blue lapel short shirt, pants, girdle small waist, after marriage with a lapel short shirt black or flower-colored tube skirt; young women more than bundled hair at the top.

The major festivals are the Water Festival (i.e. Dai New Year), the Door Closing Festival and the Door Opening Festival. The Water Splashing Festival is held in June of the Dai calendar (April). Legend has it that a long time ago, there were seven kind-hearted women who killed the demon king who dominated them, but they were burned by the demon fire, and when they saw this, they all splashed water to put out the fire to save them. In order to remember the seven sisters who eliminated the evils of the people, people splash each other with water in the New Year to clean the dust and remove the dirt, and to wish that they can eliminate the calamities and be healthy in the new year.

Etiquette: the old man is respected, the village red and white events should be specifically sent to the old man meals; talk and gas, family, neighborly relations and harmony, few quarrels; the younger generation from the elders passed in front of, to bend down fine step, to show respect for the elders; hospitable, passing guests, will be hosted by the hospitality of the hosts, and some families are also prepared to entertain the guests of the special bedding, more than their own use of the more beautiful.

The Dai mainly live in Xishuangna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Dai, Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture and Gengma, Menglian and other places in Yunnan Province, and the rest of them are scattered in more than thirty counties such as Xinping and Yuanjiang. The population is more than 1,025,000 (1990 4th Census).

On January 24, 1953, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture was established. Later, the Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan was established (July 24, 1953), Menglian Dai Lahu Wa Autonomous County of Yunnan (June 16, 1954), Gengma Dai Wa Autonomous County of Yunnan (October 16, 1955), Yuanjiang Hani and Yi Dai Autonomous County of Yunnan (November 22, 1980), and Xinping Yi and Dai Autonomous County of Yunnan (November 25, 1980). November 25th).

The Dai are a people with a long history. As far back as the first century A.D., there were records of the Dai in Chinese historical records. In the Han Dynasty, they were called Dianyue and Shan; in the Tang and Song Dynasties, they were called Jintao, Heitao and Baiyi; and in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, they were called Baiyi, Paiyi and Baiyi; and after 1949, according to the will of the Dai people, they were named Dai. Usually, the Dai in the interior and the Dai on the border are called Dry Dai and Water Dai respectively. The former is close to the Han people, absorbing more Han culture, called Han Dai, blackmail for the dry Dai, to maintain more ethnic characteristics of the Dai in Xishuangbanna, Menglian, Ruili and other places called water Dai. The Dai people call themselves Dai tithe, Dai Ya, Dai Na, Dai bandage.

Dai dragon boat race

The Dai have their own language and writing. The language belongs to the Zhuang Dai branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The two kinds of Dai scripts, Xishuangbanna and Dehong, are pinyin scripts, which evolved from Pali script in southern India. The Dai people are not only good at singing and dancing, but also have created a splendid culture, in which the Dai Calendar, Dai medicine and narrative poems are the most famous. The Dai calendar is a solar year and the month is a lunar month, with three seasons of cold, heat and rain and a leap month in September every three years, which is still commonly used in Thailand and Myanmar. Dai medicine, together with Mongolian, Tibetan and Viennese medicine, has become one of the four most famous ethnic medicine systems in China. There are many narrative poems circulating in the Dai area, such as "Shao Shu Tun and Nangmu Nona", "Lan Jia Xi He", "The Story of Allan" and so on. Dai opera has a history of more than 100 years. Most of the Dai people believe in Hinayana Buddhism.

The Dai region of Xishuangbanna rubber production has increased significantly, Pu'er tea is famous in China and abroad, the development of local and township enterprises very quickly, there are mining, machinery, electricity, chemicals, ceramics, leather, paper and other factories and mines.

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The main color of the Dai clothing comes from the characteristics of the Dai women pay attention to clothing, the pursuit of light, beautiful, light attire, coordinated clothing colors, extremely excellent.

Young women will be long hair coiled on top of the head, is a notable feature of the Dai dress. Dai women wear tight underwear of various colors on their upper bodies, light-colored lapel or narrow-sleeved shirts on the lapel, 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 into buns, and insert combs, hairpins or flowers as decorations on their buns. Dai women like to wear jewelry, jewelry is usually made of gold and silver, hollow mostly, carved with exquisite patterns and designs Dai women generally grow up with a slim figure, the face of the pure and delicate, looks Pavilion, generous manner, so known as the "Golden Peacock" of the name. They are not only beautiful, but also good at dressing up, with unique clothing to dress themselves up as a flower like jade. Dai women generally like to wear narrow-sleeved short clothes and tube skirts, fully displaying their long and slim figure. Above wearing a white or scarlet underwear, outside is tight short blouse, garden round neck and narrow sleeves, there is a large lapel, there is also a lapel, there are water red, yellow, light green, snow white, sky blue and other colors. By the year 2000 is mostly sewn with georgette, silk, indeed, and other materials. Narrow-sleeved short shirt tightly over the arm, almost no gap, a lot of people also like to use flesh-colored clothing sewing, if not carefully look can not see the sleeve, before and after the clothes

Lapel just waist, tightly wrapped around the body, and then a silver belt tied to the short-sleeved shirt and tube skirt mouth, under the ankle-length unity skirt, waistline slim and small, wide hemline. Dai women's attire, fully demonstrated the female chest, waist, hips, "three" beauty, coupled with the fabric used by the soft, bright and colorful, no matter walking or doing things, all give people a graceful, elegant feeling. Nowadays, Dai women wear light-colored collarless and sleeveless corsets (Dai women in towns and cities often wear bras), collarless and sleeveless tight-fitting short clothes, and tube skirts, short clothes and waists, and long skirts and long skirts. Long skirt folded, more silver belt tied at the waist, the show is obvious, when the convergence of the convergence, so that women's curves are clear, the lower limbs are long, showing the slender posture of the Pavilion. Town women have very few scarves, more buns on the top, insert flowers, hairpins, card comb for decoration, more visible style. Dress color to peacock green, light green, flesh pink, yellow, yellow for the masses.

Clothing materials are often used thin and soft georgette, indeed or brocade silk sewing. Go out to participate in *** or catch the pendulum, foot on the fashionable shoes, sandals, elbows hanging bags, hand-held umbrellas to shield the sun, everywhere showing a beautiful and moving style. Dress style in the absorption of traditional clothing "essence" on the basis of the beautiful, gentle, bright, elegant direction. Further show the peacock feathers of the peacock township like colorful features.

What are the characteristics of the Dai dress? Ethnic men generally wear collarless lapel or lapel small-sleeved short shirt, under the long pants, and clothes are often white. In the cold weather, they wear felt and wrap their heads in white or green cloth. Narrow-sleeved shirts and tube skirts were the main clothing worn by women, with tight-fitting undergarments in white, scarlet, or sky blue, narrow-sleeved shirts with large lapels or plackets with round collars, and long, floral skirts underneath. Hair is tied at the top with a comb or a flower headband. Before marriage, women in some places wear white or blue shirts with large lapels and pants, characterized by a girdle; after marriage, they wear short shirts with lapels and black skirts that are no longer girdled. Mainland Dai women's clothing and the border is largely the same, but there are regional characteristics, often called by other ethnic groups, Huawai, Dasu Dai and so on.

What are the characteristics of the Dai? The Dai is one of the unique ethnic groups in Yunnan, with a population of 1,106,700 in the province (1998 statistics), accounting for 8.35% of the province's minority population. According to the Fifth Population Census of Yunnan Province in 2000, there are 11,421,390,000 Dai people. Mainly distributed in the western and southern borders of Yunnan Province, the main areas of settlement are Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Gengma Dai Wa Autonomous County, Menglian Dai Lahu Wa Autonomous County. There are also Dai scattered or mixed in more than 30 counties such as Lincang, Lancang, Xinping, Yuanjiang, Yuanyang, Jinping, Huaping, Dayao, Luquan, Jingdong, Jinggu, Pu'er, Simao, Tengchong, Longling, Cangyuan, Jiangcheng, Hekou and Ximeng.

The Dai villages are mostly located in the fertile river valleys and flat dams. The larger dams are Jinghong, Mengcang, Mengjia, Menghan, Menghai, Mangshi, Longchuan, Ganyi, Mengmao, and Zhaifang. These dams are between 500-1300 meters above sea level, low terrain, irrigation is convenient, suitable for planting crops and cash crops. Soil more red loam, brown loam, yellow loam; climate belongs to the subtropical climate, the average annual temperature of about 21 ℃; year-round no snow, only light frost period of more than 30 days; rainfall is full of nails. Annual rainfall is generally between 1000-1700 millimeters, mostly concentrated in May-October, there are no four seasons throughout the year, there is only a clear dry season and rainy season, November to April for the dry season.

Dai inhabited areas of beautiful mountains and rivers, rich in resources, Xishuangbanna's virgin forests known to ****, forest coverage accounted for 57.14% of the area of the whole state, Dehong forest cover rate of 46.02% of the area of the whole state. In the forest, there are valuable woods such as nanmu, teak, yellow chestnut, drifting nuts, pine, cedar, cypress and hinoki, etc. Everywhere. The Dai people like to plant big green trees, bay leaf trees, linden trees, betel nut trees, coconut trees, mango trees, cow nuts, Burmese osmanthus, bamboo and black heart trees (firewood) around their gardens, which make the Dai villages a veritable garden of flowers and fruits. In addition, there are many kinds of fruits such as lychee, longan, mandarin, orange, prune, olive, lemon, watermelon, banana, pineapple, etc.; and valuable medicinal herbs such as asparagus, frankincense, safflower, salvia, wild panax quinquefolius, gentian herb, etc. are famous both at home and abroad. Xishuangbanna is also the birthplace of Asian large-leaf tea, and the main production area of the famous "Pu'er Tea". Copper, iron, gold, silver, nickel, lead, tin, mercury and other mineral resources have been discovered and utilized by the Dai people since a long time ago. Dehong is also rich in gemstones, jade, beryl and crystals and other special industrial raw materials.

Xishuangbanna is the area in China where wild elephants are found, and there are more than 250 species of animals living here, the precious ones being tigers, leopards, bears, muntjacs, flying dragons, pangolins, gibbons, golden monkeys, one-horned rhinoceros, white pheasants, long-billed hornbills, two-horned hornbills, peacocks, etc. The Dai people have also discovered and utilized gems, jade, beryls and special industrial raw materials such as crystals.

The Dai belonged to the ancient Yue people. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Dai ancestors were called "Dian Yue" and "Shan", and established the first known political organization, the "Shan State". In the 1st century A.D., the Shan people entered the class society, and the leader of the Shan State was appointed as "Han Da Du Lieutenant" by the Han Dynasty. During the Tang and Song dynasties, the Dai ancestors were called "black-toothed barbarians", "golden-toothed barbarians", "silver-toothed barbarians", "embroidered-foot barbarians They were called "black-toothed barbarians", "gold-toothed barbarians", "silver-toothed barbarians", "embroidered-foot barbarians", "embroidered-face barbarians", "meng barbarians", "white barbarians" and so on. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Dai were called "Baiyi", "Baiyi", "Baiyi", "Baiyi", "Baiyi", "Baiyi", "Baiyi", "Baiyi", "Baiyi", "Baiyi", "Baiyi", "Baiyi" and "Baiyi", "Pendulum Yi". With the establishment of Yunnan Province in the Yuan Dynasty, the Dai region continued to be incorporated into the administrative system of the Central Plains Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty established Dehong and its neighboring areas as the Golden Tooth Xuanfu Division, and set up the Six Roads Governor's Office; the Xishuangbanna realm was built as the Cheli Governor's Office. The Ming Dynasty established a complete set of land division system, the Dai ethnic areas are respectively established land division, appointed the Dai ethnic leaders as hereditary land division. Established the Dai feudal lord system of local ruling power, Dai society in general to the development of feudal lord system.

Before 1949, the Dai in Xishuangbanna region has retained a relatively complete feudal lordship economic form; Diaspora in Yuanjiang, Xinping, Jinggu and other places of the Dai, due to the influence of the Han Chinese, especially after the implementation of the Qing Dynasty "land reform and return to the streams", they are faster to enter the stage of the landlord's economy; and Dehong and Menglian, In 1950, the Dai areas were liberated, and in 1951, land reform was completed in the Dai areas in the interior of Yunnan Province; on January 24 and July 24, 1953, the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture and the Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture were established successively, and in 1955 and 1956, peaceful and negotiated land reforms were completed in Dehong and Xishuangbanna, and in the early 1960s, the Dai Autonomous Prefecture was established. Consultative land reform, to the early 1960s, the entire Dai region smoothly transitioned to socialist society. 1954-1985, Yunnan Province has established the Dai and other nationalities *** with the implementation of the district ...... >>