What are the traditional costumes worn by Miao girls?

Miao costumes, called "Ou Qian" in Miao language, are mainly composed of children's clothes, casual clothes and costumes. The Miao language of "dressing up" is called "Ou Qian Ga to Xi", which means "lifting the bottom coat", and the Miao language of "Ou Tao Qian" is called "silver coat", with a pleated skirt at the bottom and a waist at the front and back. Miao costume is one of the most beautiful costumes of all ethnic groups in China.

Miao costumes are famous for their dazzling colors, complex decorations and intriguing cultural connotations. Miao costume design bears the historical responsibility of inheriting national culture, so it has the expression function of text part. With a long history, these patterns represent the text function and convey specific meanings.

On the whole, Miao costumes keep the traditional techniques of weaving, embroidering, picking and dyeing in China. While using one main technique, they often use other techniques, either picking by embroidery, dyeing by embroidery, or combining weaving and embroidery, so that these flowers are colorful and show distinctive national artistic characteristics.

From the modeling point of view, Miao costumes adopt the traditional line-drawing style or almost line-drawing style in China, with a single line as the pattern outline of modeling techniques. From the perspective of production technology, there are five forms in the history of clothing development, namely knitting, weaving, sewing, splicing and cutting.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Miao clothing