Many people say that Miao people's clothes look good. What do Miao people's clothes look like?

Miao costumes, called "Ouqian" in Miao language, are mainly composed of children's clothes, casual clothes and costumes. "Dressing up" is called "Ouqian Gagaixi" in Miao language, that is, "lifting the bottom coat", and "Ouqian Tao" is called "silver coat" in Miao language, with pleated skirts and waist.

Miao costume is one of the most beautiful costumes of all ethnic groups in China. It is not only a wonderful flower in China culture, but also a treasure of history and culture. Xiangxi dialect and eastern Guizhou dialect Miao areas like silver ornaments, while some areas in southern Guizhou like shellfish ornaments, while Miao costumes in western dialect areas are less silvery ornaments. Silver ornaments, Miao Xiu and batik are the main features of Miao costumes.

The casual clothes of Miao men and women in Qiandongnan Prefecture are relatively simple. Men's jackets are generally divided into three categories: left-breasted jackets, double-breasted jackets and left-breasted gowns, of which double-breasted jackets are the most common. The bottoms are generally big-footed pants with wide legs. There are generally two kinds of women's casual tops: right-handed tops and t-neck cross tops on the chest, with various pleated pants and trousers on the bottom.

Miao costumes are divided into gender, age, costumes and normal costumes, and there are regional differences. According to the "Hundred Miao Tu" in Qing Dynasty, there are 83 species. According to another survey data, there are more than 100.

Complex Miao costumes are divided into five categories: Xiangxi, Qiandong, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan, central Guizhou and Hainan.

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Characteristics of Miao costumes

Miao people's clothes are also called miao clothing, and there are more than 200 kinds of Miao costumes in Qiandongnan. It is the area with the largest variety and best preservation of Miao costumes in China and even in the world, and is called "Miao Costume Museum".

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 content point of view, clothing patterns are mostly based on various life images in daily life, which plays an important role in expressing meaning, identifying nationalities, branches and languages. These video records are called "epic worn on the body" by experts and scholars. From the modeling point of view, China's traditional line drawing or approximate line drawing modeling technique with single line as the outline of the pattern is adopted.

From the perspective of production techniques, the five forms of weaving, sewing, splicing and cutting in the history of costume development are all examples in Qiandongnan Miao costumes, with distinct historical levels, which can be called the exhibition hall of costume production history.

From the color point of view, they are good at choosing all kinds of contrasting colors, and strive to pursue the richness of colors, generally red, black, white, yellow and blue. From the composition point of view, it does not emphasize the prominent theme, but only pays attention to the requirements of the overall sense of clothing. Formally, it can be divided into formal clothes and casual clothes.

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