What are the characteristics of Huian women?

Huian women's dress is one of the most distinctive women's dresses. It is characterized by a yellow hat, a silver belt, a blue coat and a pair of wide black trousers. It shows the curvy figure of women and Anna's colorful expression, which makes people never tire of seeing it and appreciate the endless beauty. It has become an important theme of many people's artistic creation and a beautiful landscape today.

At the seaside of Huidong Peninsula in Hui 'an County, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, there is a special ethnic group, namely Hui 'an Girls. They are famous at home and abroad for their peculiar costumes and wedding customs. Some people say they are ethnic minorities, while others say they are Han nationality. There are only tens of thousands of people in seven villages around here. Although they only account for a small part of the population of Hui 'an County, they have attracted extensive attention from many scholars at home and abroad. Their images have entered the screen, books, newspapers and staff with the photographer's camera lens, poetry and music, and have been moving from China to the world. People call their flowered headscarves, flowered tops, silver belts and flowered trousers "feudal heads, economical shirts, democratic bellies and wasteful pants."

Hui 'an women's special clothing can be divided into two types: worshipping Wucheng, Yamashita, Xiaozuo and Jingfeng. The difference is that the hat of the former is big, thick and heavy, and the brim is slightly curved. The latter hat is getting thinner, lighter and smaller. The latter also wears a headscarf, but the headscarf is decorated with small red buds. Young and middle-aged women often fold double braids on both sides of their heads, and headscarves seem to have a feeling of shuttle horns. He still has a yellow bamboo basket in his hand. There are one or three plastic combs pinned to her head, and the unmarried young women still have bangs in their hair. The hat worn by Huian women is painted with yellow paint, which has the function of sun protection and rain protection. The flower headscarf is square, usually decorated with green flowers or blue flowers on a white background, or decorated with small white flowers on a green or blue background, folded into a triangle and tied on the head, which has the functions of wind and sand prevention, cold and warmth, and hair protection.

Xie Conghui, a Hui 'an woman who works as a tour guide in Chongwu every day, dresses herself like this. Although she is not sure who handed down this kind of dress, Huian women regard it as beauty, and she wears this kind of conventional dress. What nationality is this dress? After careful observation, people will find that the color and style of Huian women's clothing are similar to those of many ethnic minorities in China. For example, they wear hats, which are a bit like Li and Jing. Their jackets are especially like Dai costumes in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. Huian women like to wear blue tops and black pants. From the color point of view, it is similar to the clothes of Yunnan aquarium. On holidays, women wear butterfly-shaped hairstyles, because butterflies are the totem worshipped by ancient Baiyue people. What is the relationship between Huian women and ancient Baiyue people? People have different opinions. Some people do say this for two main reasons. One is that in the ten years after 195 1 in this area, traces of the life of a few ancient Baiyue ethnic groups were discovered, and so-called Neolithic sites were also found on the mountain of Dashanza Village where Hui 'an women lived. According to archaeological analysis, more than two thousand years ago, there were ancient Baiyue people living here in Fujian, mainly Fujian people and Vietnamese people.

A hundred years ago, from the late Qing Dynasty to the 1920s,

The coat worn by Hui 'an women has a wide waist and chest, a knee-length hem and a pleated skirt. There is nothing strange about this kind of clothing in ancient times. At that time, the trouser legs were very spacious, which was similar to the trousers now. Men and women in rural areas all over China wear pants that Han people often wear. At that time, women wore headdresses weighing 65,438+00 kilograms instead of hats and headscarves.

Even newly married and barren women wear black veil when they go out, in order to avoid meeting strangers and their husbands. This black veil is only taken off when sleeping, even when couples turn off the lights when sleeping. It makes some couples meet on the road, and the husband doesn't recognize each other as his wife. By the 1940s and the Republic of China, great changes had taken place in the style of women's wear in Huian. The original knee-length coat hem is gradually shortened to the arm, but it is not short enough to show the navel. At this time, women's headdresses have become wrapped in black cloth, without wearing flower headscarves or hats. The change of women's wear in Huian is obvious, that is, after 1949, the tops are getting shorter and shorter. Who invented this? It is said that this change came from the Great Leap Forward of 1958. At that time, young and middle-aged women in the county gathered to build Niaotan Reservoir. It is in hard work that women in Hui 'an have to learn from women in other areas and wear headscarves and hats in order to keep out the wind and rain. Unexpectedly, this dress never took off again and became a striking landscape.

Many secrets of a woman's family are hidden in that hat that never leaves her body. The climate by the sea is changeable,

Especially in the bay of Huidong Peninsula, sometimes the sea breeze is particularly cold, but why is the coat of Huian women getting shorter and shorter? When we contacted Hui 'an women, we found that the shorter the clothes, the more obvious the ribbon around the waist of unmarried women and the silver belt of married women were exposed. It is said that the silver belt is a wedding gift from a man, which can show the wealth of the family. Perhaps this is the reason why the economical shirts are getting shorter and shorter, revealing the navel! Zheng, secretary of the county party committee who used to be a university professor, has some views on the origin and development of Huian women's wear. After 1950s, the wedding headdress of Hui 'an women is no longer heavy metal ornaments and black cloth, but red hydrangea made of silk, which is beautiful and light. In different times, their wedding dresses are different.

The wedding dress of Hui 'an women changes with the times.

Their styles are also different, and their marriage customs change with the times. Before 1950s, Hui 'an girls had the custom of living in their parents' home for a long time. After three days of marriage, they will go back to their parents' home for a long time. Only during the Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival, that is, July 15, winter solstice and busy farming season, and after giving birth, they will stay at their husbands' home for a long time.

This kind of man has been fishing outside for a long time, while women are engaged in sideline and agriculture at home, thus forming the custom of staying at home for a long time. The custom of living in parents' home for a long time has brought misfortune to many Huian girls in the past. With the development of the times, many changes have taken place in these old customs.

The bride walked through the stove and out of her ancestral home.

This is a procedure of Hui 'an women's traditional marriage custom. It is said that the red flame indicates that the newly married life is flourishing. Like traditional customs, brides usually wear very strange headdresses. Only on the wedding day can Miss Huian wear such a beautiful headdress. It took five or six clever women four hours to comb it. But if the bride is not careful, it is impossible to comb it herself. Then why do these women comb the bride's headdress like this? What's the mystery in this? It turns out that in the past, in the marriage custom of staying at home, it played a supervisory role on the bride's wedding night. It is said that the bride will return to her parents' home after three days of marriage. If people find that her hair is messed up, her sisters of the same age will laugh at her. Therefore, in order to keep the hairstyle neat, the bride usually doesn't lie down and sleep for three days and nights after the wedding, and tries to avoid sleeping with the groom.

Pants worn by Huian women,

Women over 40 and over 50 wear Chinese-style "wide (wide) pants", and young women wear wide suit pants with trouser legs, made of black thread cloth or nylon cloth. The waist is tied with a red and blue plastic belt, and married people often add a silver trouser chain, which is one to eight strands wide, and more strands are preferred. Pant-style waist is small, hip circumference is large, and trouser legs is only 30cm, which is both beautiful and convenient for labor.

In addition, it is no longer popular for the elderly Hui 'an women to have a gold tooth on each side of their front teeth as decoration.

Men in Chongwu often go out to make a living or fish, and women in Huian naturally become the main force in building their hometown. They build roads, water conservancy, farm land, mend fishing nets, honor their parents-in-law and educate their children. They are really omnipotent daughters-in-law Huian women are famous for their beauty, diligence, virtue and unique clothing. It has not only become a unique folk landscape of Chongwu ancient city, but also added indescribable charm to Chongwu ancient city, attracting many tourists.