Hakka Bride's Clothing

The Hakka dress in the mountainous areas is loose and fat, no matter the top or pants. Men wear long clothes, long jackets, large lapel shirts with buttons from the right armpit, and cloth buttons on the clothes, with brass buttons if they want to. The pants are not very divided into men and women, not divided into front and back. Pants wide legs, easy to ò up to the field labor, deep crotch, wide pants, crotch pants to be folded between the waist to fasten, usually with a cloth belt or woven with a line of the belt bound. In hot days, they often wear short sweatshirts with lapels, and civilians often use five or six feet of white cloth or green cloth to wrap their heads. Women's blouses are usually knee-length with large cuffs. Unmarried women wear long braids, while married women wear buns and hairpins. Women participate in labor at sunrise, and insist on spinning and weaving at night or in their spare time, and some families used to own spinning wheels, looms, and straw shoe-making machines. Some families used to own spinning wheels, looms and straw shoe-making machines. It was very popular to use self-produced cotton for spinning or buy yarn for weaving, and to make their own straw shoes. The housewives dye the woven cloth with orchid indigo made from home-grown orchid leaves (Panax quinquefolius) to make blue-orchid-colored cloth, which is molded and crushed to make it durable and long-lasting. The traditional women's clothing made of this cloth is mostly a large placket with buttons opening from the right armpit. Hakka women pay great attention to saving, so they treasure the clothes on their bodies, usually wear old clothes with patches to participate in labor, and only wear slightly new and brightly colored clothes during festivals, celebrations or family visits. Generally speaking, the clothing of adults is basically in blue, indigo and black as the main tone. These colors are resistant to dirt and washing without being ostentatious, which is the best choice for the Hakka people to work for many years and go in and out of the mountains and fields, and is also the outward manifestation of the Hakka people's character traits of being soft on the outside and hard-working and thrifty on the inside. Women's clothes are mostly in orchid color, while older women like to wear gray and black. Some of the more affluent families also embellish their women's lapels and cuffs with lace, but the lace is by no means elaborate or gaudy. Hakka women in traditional villages do not wear make-up and are rarely seen wearing earrings and jewelry. From nuns, sisters-in-law, old women, all like to stitch the bottom of the stockings, hats, straps embroidered into beautiful art. Hakka unmarried women usually want to comb a braid in the back of the head, and married women will be braided into a bun disk, in the head of the bun inserted a silver pin, and then outside the "head skirt" cover or wrap, chest tie an apron, apron on the top of the middle with a line picking the pattern design, symbolizing adulthood. Hakka women's head dress is considered one of the most "luxurious" of their clothing, embroidered around the lace, the middle of the colorful thread embroidered bugs, birds, fish, beasts and various designs. There are many uses for the head dress, which can be tied around the head to protect the head from the sun and the cold; it can also be tied around the waist as an apron to cover up grease and dust; it can also be used to wrap items and tie things up in special circumstances. Hakka women do not wrap the feet, do not tie the chest, do not hire a nurse for the child, and no one to become a prostitute, the people's culture of simplicity. Although Hakka girls are not glamorous, they are praised for their thrift, hard work and cleanliness. In their daily life, they get up before dawn to raise the fire to cook rice, and go to the fields or the mountains to cut firewood at dawn. Hakka women generally don't put much thought into their looks and clothes, dressing simply and plainly without powder, giving a good impression of simplicity, cleanliness and naturalness, and exuding a healthy and fresh air from head to toe. On the surface of the slightly gray, lack of female beauty, but their inner world is incomparably full of self-sufficiency, which is more than those who are smeared with grease and powder, wrapped around the foot girdle to please the men of the women to live a full and happy.