What are the characteristics of Mulao costumes?

Mulao people are mainly distributed in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Mulao people advocate cyan, and their clothing style is simple and simple. Mulao people grow their own cotton and indigo, weave their own homespun and dye their own. The method of dyeing cloth is: put the cloth in a dyeing vat, soak it in indigo water, and take it out after uniform coloring. Paste the noodles with rice soup, yam and Niu Pijiao. After drying, roll with a stone hammer or beat with a wooden stick, so that the cloth made is shiny, beautiful and durable. Indigo dyed homespun is regarded as a treasure by the Mulao people, and the "anti-aging clothes" worn by the elderly and the "wedding clothes" worn by girls are made of this kind of cloth.

Clothing characteristics

Mulao people are still dark blue. "Guangxi Tongzhi" says: "It is appropriate for Sam to wear Shang Qing as a servant ..." Love to wear cyan is one of the characteristics of Mulao costumes. Mulao people grow their own cotton and indigo, weave their own homespun and dye their own.

According to historical records, before the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Mulao women often wore wide robes and thick sleeves, embroidered skirts, silver rings around their necks and silver bracelets and rings on their hands, which were quite ethnic. During Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty (1465- 1487), the feudal rulers forced the Mulao nationality to modify it, and it gradually improved.

stage of development

The costumes of the Mulao nationality have their own characteristics, but in some respects, they are basically the same as those of the nearby Han nationality and Zhuang nationality because of their long-term coexistence and mutual influence.

Before the Revolution of 1911, in ordinary Mulao families, adult men only sewed a gown and wore it when they were guests. Wear a collarless coat at other times, which is long enough to cover your hips. The body is wide, the sleeves are wide, and the front is stitched, commonly known as "barrel cover" or "pipa placket".

1910/year later, the number of men wearing pipa lapels gradually decreased, and most of them were changed to large lapels, that is, the lapels opened on the right side of the chest were moved to the ribs, and the style was still the same as that of pipa lapels. At this time, "tights" and "breeches" appeared, which were mostly worn in winter.

After 1949, most Mulao costumes have been sinicized. In the 1980 s, all kinds of fashions changed, except for some elderly people who occasionally wore them. The original clothes were very few. In festivals, literary and art workers, as national art costumes, only wear them.

Cloth editing

In the past, most of them were self-spinning, self-weaving, self-dyeing and self-sewing. The homespun dyed with indigo is considered as a precious cloth. The fabric is bright, beautiful and durable. Girls' "wedding clothes" and old people's "anti-aging clothes" are made of this fabric. Girls also use it to make "shoes of the past" as a token for their lovers when they go up the mountain. If you make single-beam boat shoes for the elderly, it is the greatest respect for the elderly. Made into suspenders, and then embroidered with flowers, birds, insects and fish with five-color silk thread, it is exquisite, beautiful and lifelike, which fully shows the artistic talent and aesthetic taste of Lao women.