Bai Clothing

The Bai clothing is not only a product adapted to the Bai people's production and labor, life and culture as well as climatic characteristics, but also a result of the subtle influence of the beautiful lakes and mountains on the Bai people's aesthetic concepts, which has a unique style. In terms of clothing, the Bai men and women revere the white color, and white clothes are honored. Dali area of men wear white lapel coat, black coat; Haidong (Erhai eastern region) men are coated with buckskin coat, or several pieces of leather, satin coat, commonly known as "three drops of water", the waist tie buckskin or embroidered bib, under the blue or black pants. Women's clothing is different from place to place. Dali area more wear white blouse, red shoulders, or light blue blouse, jacket black velvet collar, right tucked knots connecting "three beards", "five beards" silver ornaments, the waist tie embroidered short waist, under the blue wide pants, foot wearing embroidered "hundred section Shoes. Unmarried women braid their hair in a single braid on top, and married people change it to a bichang. Haidong comb "phoenix nodding" hair style, with a silk net cover Zuo, or shrink to tube, all with embroidered scarf or black cloth head. Jianchuan unmarried woman is wearing a small cap or covered with silver bubble of jade rabbit "drum nail cap" or "fishtail cap". Adults and children are happy to report sheepskin. About before the thirties of this century, the mainland towns and cities, women, many of whom have foot-binding. Later, with the evolution of social customs, has been gradually abandoned. After the liberation, the Bai people's economic and cultural life continues to improve, the national costume is also more conducive to production, more beautiful and generous aspects of development. Women's headdress in the headdress of young girls is extremely elaborate, the most ethnic characteristics, like to comb a single braid, with a piece of pick flower head scarf, stacked it into a long strip added to the top. And then use the red head rope around the long single braid of hair, the braid pulled up, the braid into a dragon, squeezed in the middle, on the dragon into a horse horn, down into a dragon phoenix tail. The tassel on the headband is tied under the left ear, and the wind blows and shakes, and the silver beads glitter. Forehead tassel flower hair base into a string, both showing the beauty of the girl's long hair, but also highlights the hair braids under the brightly colored headscarf, very full of wine freely rendered the white girl's hairstyle and headdress unique charm.

The past Haidong girls before marriage to wear a top embroidered phoenix-tailed lei, before the two pairs of fine springs to support the colorful ball, on both sides of the embroidered wings, after the silver chain connected to the set on top of the braid, look away like a bright and colorful golden phoenix. After marriage, women are generally no longer wrapped in a single braid wrapped turban, the hair combed into three braids coiled in the back of the head into a bun, combed into the Queen's head, covered with black silk net, net with an oval hair set, inserted into the tube, jacket Phoenix cap or around the turban. Compared with the girls, the colors are becoming lighter. Middle-aged and older women for the high bun, wrapped in wax-dyed, tie-dyed black headscarf, giving a sense of solemnity. Women's clothing and accessories also vary slightly according to age, mainly in the choice of colors and the use of lace and the length of the waist on the difference. Young girls wear white, red, pink and blue collarless lapel coat or shirt, covered with red, light blue collar coat; collar coat with gold velvet, corduroy, tweed or chemical fiber. Color depends on age. Young girls and young women like water red, older women like black and blue. With a green belt about five inches wide and a few feet long, the waist is tightly girded, and then tied around the waist. Women from old to young are tied four sides of the waist. Generally, young girls prefer a short girdle, single-layered, white and green, with lace, embroidered with patterns such as Fukushou flowers, Wanji flowers, pomegranate flowers, butterfly flowers, and so on, together with embroidered "duck tongues" and fluttering ribbons. Covering the waist above the knee is a perfect way to show the youthfulness and femininity of the body. Middle-aged and elderly women's waistcoats are knee-high and double-layered, with colors shifting from warm to cold and flowers becoming simpler from complex to simple. There is also an embroidered belt on the women's waist, the ends are two pieces of double-sided embroidery.