Characteristics of Dong costumes

The Dong people are also divided into Southern Dong and Northern Dong, and the costumes of the Southern Dong are very exquisite, the women are good at weaving and embroidery, and the handicrafts of Dong brocade, Dong cloth, picking flowers and embroidery are extremely rich in characteristics.

Women wear collarless lapel coat, lapel and cuffs set with fine horsetail embroidery piece, the pattern to the dragon and phoenix, mainly, between the water cloud pattern, flower and grass pattern.

Underneath, she wore a short pleated skirt, and her feet were covered with flower shoes.

Hair buns decorated with ringed hairpins, silver hairpin or wearing a silver crown with dragons and phoenixes, wearing multi-layered silver collars and earrings, bracelets, waist pendants and other silver jewelry.

Sanjiang Dong women wear long shirts and short skirts, and their long shirts have large collars and lapels, and the lapels and cuffs are beautifully embroidered.

The placket is unbuttoned and open in the middle, revealing an embroidered bib, with a pleated skirt of green cloth and embroidered legs, flower shoes, a big bun on the head, decorated with flowers, wooden combs, silver hairpins, etc.

Men of the Dong ethnic group wear long shirts and short skirts with large collars and fine embroidery on the neckline and cuffs.

The men's costumes are green cloth head wrapped, standing collar and lapel, belted, covered with buttonless short kangshi, long pants, wrapped with tied legs, straw shoes or bare feet, with embroidery on the lapel, etc.

The costumes of the Dongguang are embroidered.

The horse-tail back fan of Dong nationality is called first-class embroidery, with ancient shape, refined embroidery, strict pattern and rich color, which fully demonstrates the intelligence and high skill of Dong women.

Expanded information:

In the past, the material of the clothes of the Dong ethnic group was mainly the self-spun and self-woven and self-dyed Dong cloth.

After the 1980s, the use of fine woven cloth has become common, and the self-woven Dong cloth has become a gift for relatives and friends.

The costumes of Dong nationality are various, with different decorations for different ages and seasons, including left-over-obeam, right-over-obeam and lapel; cloth button, copper button and silver button; pants and skirts; colors of green, blue, black and white; and headdresses, neckdresses, chestdresses, waistdresses, handdresses, footdresses and so on.

Among them, there are more than 50 kinds of headdresses, mainly silver, silver flower crowns, silver hairpins, silver combs, silver hair chains, silver earrings, silver earrings, silver earrings, silver earrings, silver ear wires and so on.

When women are in full costume, the only thing that shines is silver.

Women's hair style is more special, divided into front, back, left and right bun or disk hair braid on top of the head, there are obvious regional differences.

Women's hair style is special.