Inner Mongolia feature clothes

Mongolian robe is a traditional Mongolian costume. But it has gone through a long historical process. The earliest primitive Mongolian clothing was made of plant leaves, just a cover. After hunting, I made clothes out of animal skins. With the development of animal husbandry economy, clothes are gradually made of animal skins, but they are relatively simple. According to the Secret History of Mongolia, sheepskin jacket was the main costume of ancient Mongols.

With the communication between Mongolians and other nationalities, especially after the Tang and Song Dynasties, a large number of fabrics, silks and satins and velvet tapestries entered various places of Mongolians. In style, the Mongols absorbed the round-neck robes of Turks and Khitans, wrapped their waists and wore short boots, which were suitable for grazing and hunting, and improved them according to their own national preferences. This is a Mongolian robe. According to the related documents of the Mongol Khanate era in the13rd century, clothes were worn on the right side (left side in Turkic at that time), and a few were worn on the side. The clothes were made of felt, leather and silk, and the clothes were bulky. They mopped the floor for a long time, and they wore two furs in winter, one fur inward and the other fur outward, with similar styles for men and women.

This kind of clothing, after a little modification, has been used to this day. There are three kinds: clip, cotton and leather. In winter, sheepskin is used as lining, and silk, satin and cloth are used as surface. Wear cloth, silk, satin and silk in summer. Generally use red, yellow, purple, dark, blue and other colors. The sleeves are long and narrow, so they cannot be separated. Skirts and hems are often trimmed with flannel, with a side width of about 6-9 cm. When wearing it, press it up slightly, tie the waist with a red-purple ribbon about 3-4 long, and hold the waist at both ends. Men are used to hanging Mongolian knives on the right side of their belts and ornaments such as smoking utensils and embroidered lotus flowers on the left side.

2. Mongolian boots

Mongolians wear boots all year round. Mongolian boots are divided into pointed boots, soap boots, warm boots, leather boots and boots. There are many kinds and styles. The tip of the boot is slightly upturned, and the sole is held by hand. Boots are made of cowhide, horse skin and donkey skin, and the boots are lined with leather or felt. Boots are very wide, you can wear cotton socks, and you can hide knives on the side of boots. The high boots are about a foot high, and the boots are horseshoe-shaped. There are also low boots, and many people wear cloth boots.

There are many changes in boots worn by Mongolians in semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral areas or agricultural areas. In eastern Mongolia, people wear slippers. These shoes are made of cowhide and horse skin and are boat-shaped. They are covered with shampoo and cloth, so they can't freeze in the ice and snow. Herdsmen used to make their own shoes. Later, with the gradual development of the shoe-making industry, they seldom made shoes, and they all bought them from the market.

head ornament

Mongolian hair headdress has undergone great changes. In ancient times, Mongolian ancestors often delayed their hair. The procrastinator, that is, the horse's head is dragged behind, always starts and ends here. In the 7th century. The difference between male and female hairstyles is obvious. Men are all hairy and women are all disheveled. In the13rd century, "being sent" has been rare. And people have noticed the headdress. Married women often wear antique hats. Its hat is long and cylindrical, about a foot high and made of birch bark. There are flowers and silk outside, decorated with various beads.

In the Ming Dynasty, newly married Mongolian women wore long red clothes and antique hats. At the same time, some people wear Mongolian hats with eaves. It is said that the original designer of this kind of hat is Kublai Khan's empress Cha Yu.

In the Qing dynasty, due to the influence of Manchu, men shaved off the hair around them, leaving only the hair at the back of the skull braided and hung behind their heads. Women usually don't grow their hair until they get married. Unmarried women often wear single braids and red braids. Married women in Guizhou mostly imitate Manchu women's hair styles, such as wishful head, prefix, big wings and combing their hair and legs. But in the folk and remote grasslands, most of them still maintain the traditional Mongolian hair style. Married women's hair is in a bun, with Manchu on the head and Mongolian on the back. ?

Since modern times, the headdress of Mongolian women in the eastern region has also changed with the development of the times. Although women in Alashan, Erdos and Wuzhumuqin regions don't wear headdresses with hair covers on the top and pearls on the bottom, tassels in front and elegant ears on the back, they pay more attention to the beauty of headdresses than schools. They often choose precious corals, peacocks, agates and emeralds as gorgeous decorations. Girls grazing in pastoral areas wear selected colored headscarves. In the past, women had their ears pierced. When I am an adult, I usually wear earrings. Older women's earrings are mostly jade earrings slightly smaller than copper coins. Few men wear earrings, but only one.