What is the most used pattern in the center of the Qiang costume?

There are a large number of sheep's head and ram's horn motifs in the Qiang costume.

There are a large number of sheep's head and horns patterns in the Qiang costumes, which are generally used on the cap, chest, skirt and shoes, and the sheep totem style can be changed according to different occasions, as well as the age and status of the wearer. The Qiang people's worship of sheep comes from the fact that the Qiang people's early mode of production was a nomadic economy, and they were the shepherds of the Great Northwest, who spent time with the sheep, and had extremely deep feelings for them.

In the dress embroidery pattern, there are many animal patterns, such as the child wearing a tiger hat, butterfly pattern on the dress, rare bird pattern, cow head and sheep head pattern, "Shibi" walking stick on the monkey head carving and so on are taken from the animal worship and the creation of the work.

Decorative patterns created with flowers and plants as objects are the theme of embroidery, especially now, as the object of expression has become an important form of Qiang art expression. The Qiang people is a mountainous nation, they have very deep feelings for the mountains and water, and what they have to face every day are flowers and trees, and exotic flowers and grasses are everywhere in the big valleys.

Flowers and plants are God's food to the Qiang people, they have to rely on these "food" to feed their cattle and sheep. In each village, cutting grass for pigs, cows and sheep is usually a woman's job, and these rich resources of flowers and grasses become the material for the girls to create, and their images are transformed into beautiful dress patterns in the skillful hands of the Qiang girls. Flower pattern, narrow leaf pattern, etc. are patterns that reflect the worship of plants.