How did the Dai dress Hua Wa Dai come about? What are the characteristics?

The Dai culture was formed and developed in a closed environment. The most characteristic of the Dai culture is the Huaswa Dai. The colorful costumes of Huaswa Dai, with silver ornaments and ribbons, are named for their striking features. The Hua Wa Dai has preserved the worship of nature and soul by the ancestors of the Dai people, as well as the cultural beliefs of the nation, thus forming the original culture of the Dai people, which is rich in connotation today: the Hua Wa Dai.

"Hua Waist Dai is the name given to the Dai (Dai Ya, Dai Shao, Dai Ka, Dai Zhong) who live in the upper and middle reaches of the Red River in Xinping and Yuanjiang counties. Because of its simple and elegant costumes, elegant and noble, especially the waist of the dress belt layer by layer waist, pricked gorgeous exquisite patterns, full of bright and shiny cherry cob, silver bubble, silver bell and the name of the "flower waist Dai". Since the Tang Dynasty, the Dai people have called themselves "Dai".

The name of the flower-waisted Dai was first seen in the Qing Dynasty, and in the Qing Dynasty era, the "Baiyi" was recorded as "Pendulum Yi", and the Dai in Dehong Prefecture was mainly "Dry Pendulum Yi" (Ming Dynasty). The Dai in Dehong Prefecture are mainly the "Dry Pendulum Yi" (known as "Big Baiyi" during the Ming Dynasty), the Dai in Xishuangbanna Prefecture are the "Water Pendulum Yi" (known as "Small Baiyi" during the Ming Dynasty), and the Dai living in the middle reaches of the Honghe River are the "Flower Pendulum Yi". The Dai living in the middle reaches of the Red River are called "Hua Pang Yi". Flower-waisted Dai is the Republic of other nationalities on the name of Dai Ya, now refers to Xinping, Yuanjiang two counties of Dai Ya, Dai Sprinkle, Dai Ka, Dai Zhong, or general reference to the Dai in the middle and upper reaches of the Red River. In fact, the Hua Waist Dai people prefer to call themselves Dai Ya, Dai Shao, Dai Ka, Dai Zhong, Hua Waist Dai is just a kind of name of other nationalities because of their distinctive costumes.

The Dai in the upper and middle reaches of the Red River, like the Dai in other regions, originated from the ancient Aigong people and the ancient Dian people. Around the fifth century B.C., the Mourning People founded the Daguang Kingdom in the middle and upper reaches of the Lancang and Nu Rivers. At the end of the second century B.C., the Daguang Kingdom began to make contact with the Han Dynasty, and because the Daguang King was called "Mourning Jade" at that time, the Han Dynasty began to call the Daguang Kingdom "Mourning Jade Kingdom". Before that, the Han Dynasty could only learn about the Mourning Frogs through the inhabitants of the Dian Kingdom. Because the Mourning Frogs were good at riding elephants and their living environment was similar to that of the "Baiyue" peoples in the south of the Han Dynasty, they were hastily categorized by the Han Dynasty as a kind of peoples of the "Baiyue", and called the Mourning Frogs the "Dianyue". The Han Dynasty hastily categorized them as "Baiyue", called the Mourning City people "Dianyue", and called the kingdom of Daguang (Mourning City) "the country of the multiplying elephants".