Costume style of Shui ethnic dress

The dress of the Qiandongnan Shui ethnic group does not vary much from place to place, and there is a difference between casual dress and full dress. The aquatic people prefer white, green and blue, and their clothing is usually colored in green and blue, with white as the decorative accent. In recent years, dark green has also become the main color of aquatic clothing.

The men's costumes of the aquatic people have changed a lot. Before the mandatory modification of the Qing Dynasty, the men of the aquatic people had long hair in buns, wore long clothes without collars or buttons, and wore belts. In the late Qing Dynasty, hair was shaved and braided, and the elderly wore satin red caps and wide-sleeved shirts with big lapels and no collars, and the young and strong men wore braids on top of their heads, and wrapped their heads in white or green bandanas, and wore short shirts with big lapels and no collars. Modern men wear green, blue and white lapel coat, green or blue pants with big legs. Water tribe men to wear clothes to show how much family wealth, often with five, seven, nine, ten a single number to wear together, each piece of clothing only buckle a button, so that people know the number of pieces of clothing worn. Older Water Tribe men shave their heads and wrap them in long green cloth turbans. Contemporary older men still maintain recent dress to a large extent, and young and middle-aged men basically wear Han Chinese clothes.

The women's dress retains the style of modern women's costume attire. The women wear their long hair coiled around the top, fixed with silver hairpins and combs, and then inserted with various silver flowers. The dress is well-made, the blouse is a lapel collarless wide-sleeved short jacket, sleeves, cuffs with white water wave lace decoration, the left and right chest with embossed silver vertical rows of decorative silver buttons with embellishments, the neck wears a number of silver collars, necklaces, under the green medium-length pleated skirt, inside the knee pants, wrapped tied legs to the knee, the foot wears a pointed hooked flower shoes, outside the skirt on the right side of the waist with the length of about feet of the silver balls of the butterfly syringe, the waist with a long belt in the waist to tie a knot and leave feet floating at the back. The long belt is tied at the back waist and left floating at the back.

Unmarried women's casual wear like light blue, green, right-over-overlapping lapel long shirt, clothes long as the knee, waist and sleeves, appear to be more close to the body, the edges of the clothes and pants do not make any decorations, the chest to wear a long embroidered girdle. They wear a single braid on their heads, a square scarf with a black bar on a white background or a long white or green handkerchief, and green pants. The cuffs of married women's sleeves, shoulders, and pants are decorated with a blue lace, while the shoulders, cuffs, and pants are trimmed with a large lace of beveled green cloth, and the outer edges are trimmed with two strips of flowers. The long hair is combed into a handful of coils from left to right on the top, and then a comb is inserted from the left side to fix it and decorate it, and it is customary to cover it with a black-and-white checkered or white or black long strip of headgear. In the Rongjiang Xinghua, Tashi, Leishan Dadi area of the water tribe women's clothing, pants are tighter, the top slit is higher, the hemline is round, shoulder lace along the shoulders to the back in an oval shape.

The dress of the Shui ethnic group is rich in national characteristics, and it shows the unique style of the Shui ethnic culture and the rich connotation of the national culture with its colorful style.

Traditional costumesThe men's costumes of the Shui ethnic group have basically assimilated to those of the Han ethnic group, and only in the national festivals or joyous moments can be seen in the traditional costumes of a small number of people dressed in lapel tops and wrapped in white head scarves. Some of the older men also retained in solemn occasions to wear a long shirt, coat, short head wrap, which is obviously a bit of the Qing Dynasty style.