What are the characteristics of the clothing of the Kyung ethnic group?

The national costume of the Jing people is characterized by simplicity and beauty, and is unique in style. The Jing people are a fishing people living in southern China, so their clothing shows the characteristics of the fishing and hunting economy, and is full of the atmosphere of a fishing family. The Jing people's costumes and clothing are distinctive, simple and flowing. Now come with me to look at the Jing culture from the clothing .

In the past, the Jing people in the usual production and daily life, men wore knee-length, collarless and unbuttoned, narrow-sleeved, bare-chested shirts, wide and long pants, the waist girded with colorful belts, usually one or two bundles, there are as many as five or six, as a way of showing their own wealth. Women's underwear and men are no different, both wide and long, over the instep; but the upper garment is the opposite of men, tight, narrow-sleeved, shirts foot only to the waist of the short blouse, is also collarless chest placket, but there are three buttons, do not tie the belt.

Different age groups of women on the color requirements of clothing and pants are different young people generally like white, green or grass-green tops, with black or brown pants; middle-aged people are green or light green tops, with black pants; the elderly more brown clothes or black clothes and black pants. If in the grand festival, or to catch the pike into the market, visiting friends and relatives, women often have to wear a similar cheongsam but wider hem, short collar and narrow sleeves of the long shirt, most of its color is black, white and potato buttercup dyed reddish-brown. The most characteristic is that women, whether usual or out, the upper body of the chest are sewn with a beautifully embroidered diamond-shaped chest cloth, commonly known as "chest cover", both practical and beautiful.

Due to "do the sea", accustomed to the water life, the Jing people in the past usually do not wear shoes and socks, even in the winter months are always playing barefoot, only at night when bathing and washing their feet to wear clogs, even the elderly also barefoot to step on a pair of palm bark compiled by the commonly known as "brown clogs" slippers only. Even the elderly wear a pair of slippers made of palm bark on their bare feet, commonly known as "palm clogs". The old local history has recorded that the Jing people "love barefoot".

Jing women are very concerned about hair, hair is the center of the flat parting, sideburns stay "water", braided in the back, with black cloth or black silk thread wrapped around, and then from left to right coiled around the top of the head into a circle, the shape of a round anvil, so it is commonly known as "anvil bun". Jing women like to wear earrings, do not wear a collar, six or seven years old on the piercing of the ear, and all selected in the Dragon Boat Festival, that day there is a "dragon king water", piercing the ear is the most auspicious. 14 years old on the beginning of combing the hair, coiled knot "anvil bun" and wear earrings, said to have entered adulthood, can go to sing and fall in love. The first thing you can do is to sing and fall in love.

According to social surveys, around the 1920s and 1930s, the Kyung ethnic people began to change their traditional clothing. After the 1950s, there was a gradual increase in the number of men and women wearing Han Chinese clothing. 1980s, except for the elderly, most of the other people no longer wear the traditional clothing of their own ethnicity, and changed the past "love trickery" habits, wearing shoes and socks. Many young and middle-aged women have also permed their hair and changed their original headdresses. Only embroidered with patterns or flowers diamond-shaped "chest cover", the general women still like to use, but the real as in the past, as used to cover the chest has been rare.

Characteristics of the dress

The Kinh dress is also the national costume of Vietnam, which is made of silk, soft and comfortable, with outstanding lines on the body, highlighting women's graceful figure, and breathable, perfect for wearing on the beach. Kinh hats made from the leaves of the sunflower tree, which is abundant in Vietnam, are light in texture, and the inner bucket is very deep, the hats cover almost the whole face, and the sun is fierce on the beach, and this kind of hats can play a role in protecting the face.

Because of the warm climate, the Kinh people do not need too much thick clothing, simple and beautiful dress, has its own unique beauty.

Men's Clothing

Men wear a bare-chested shirt with no collar and no buttons. Waist also bundled with one or two colorful belts; some bundled up to five or six as much as the number of belts to show how much they are rich or capable. Because of the shirt is longer than the knee, the shirt fork of the split flag and open a long time, so usually the two sides of the clothes up, tied into a ball knot, placed on the abdomen. This kind of costume, make people feel free, handsome, natural and bold. The color of men's shirt is light green, light blue or light brown. Pants are customarily worn in black, both wide and long; their trouser gear is especially long, almost two-thirds of the length of the pants.

Women's clothing

Young women usually wear white, green or grass-green tops, pants are mostly black or brown; middle-aged youth or light green clothes with black pants; older women more brown clothes or black clothes and black pants, the width of their pants is no different from that of men, and at first glance look at the sale of fluttering long skirts. Tops and men on the contrary, very short; shirt feet only to the waist and less than the hips, so there is a "longer than the buttocks" said. The narrowness of the sleeves, the same as men, its width can only wear arm.

Its clothes are also collarless and placketed, but there are three buttons, the chest is covered with an embroidered diamond-shaped cloth; young people with red, middle-aged people with light red or beige, the elderly with white or blue. This small cloth is usually called "cover chest", also commonly known as "chest cover", is one of the common decorations for women.

According to folklore, women's decorative "chest cover", as early as before the Jing family moved to the three islands, by the Eastern Han Dynasty, General Fubo Ma Zhen gift. When General Fubo came to Jiaotong, he saw that women wore the same bare chest as men and felt that it was not very elegant, so he personally designed a beautiful "chest cover" for them to give. Since then, women have been wearing the "chest cover". This kind of decoration has been handed down to this day. Jing people to General Fubo is very respect, Hongkan village built General Fubo temple!

Outdoor clothing

If out of the village, pike into the city or visit friends and relatives, women wear a cheongsam-like hem wider short collar and narrow sleeves chest shirt, in addition to wearing a black or brown dome hat, commonly known as the "headband". This custom of wearing, rich or poor, are the same, only in the material quality of the difference.

Most of the ordinary family with homemade coarse woven linen material, rich people first with damask, silk fabrics or silk yarn, black, white, red, brown and other colors of precious materials. Poor people in the old days did not dare to hope for silk, silk, silk, silk, can have to cover the body of the coarse linen shirt even good. Some of them even have only one suit all year round; many people tend to "wash at night and wear in the daytime".

Wedding dress

Young men and women get married, in the past in the dress is also in its obvious traditional customs. In the wedding, the groom wears a grass green or light green robe shirt and dark blue or light blue long crotch pants; the groom also wears a robe shirt and long crotch pants, only the shirt is red or light red, the pants are black or brown just.

But after 1949, especially after entering the 80s, the groom and the bride wore clothing has changed greatly. Men not only wear a new lapel suit, but also decorated with fashionable tie; women also wore a colorful fashion flower dress and BiJing pants. Where the Han Chinese area wedding men and women fashionable dress, they are extremely pursued and imitated.