What are the costumes of Achang nationality? Brief introduction of Azhu clothing

The costumes of Achang nationality in Lhasa have the most national characteristics. Girls like to wear blue and black double-breasted coats and trousers. They wear black or blue baotou. Some are like towering towers, one or two feet high. Others wrapped the ground with a blue cloth more than 2 inches wide, with tassels behind the Baotou, which was shoulder-length. The front is decorated with flowers, polar velvet beads and tassels. Some people wear silver ornaments on their left mane horn, like a blooming chrysanthemum inlaid with jade, marble and coral. The girls are still dazzled by the silver coins and necklaces on their chests and several silver collars around their necks. A Qiang girls also wear A Qiang belts. They are called felt skirts and are usually embroidered with homemade thread and cloth. This is related to the working life of Achang nationality.

It is said that the daughter of an ancient hunter sewed a belt around her waist in order to learn hunting skills from her father. She studied hard and developed a good martial arts. Girls all admire her and wear a belt like her. When tying a knot, leave a long knot and a short knot in front of your body, which is convenient for work and floats like a butterfly, which is very beautiful. Married women usually wear black narrow-sleeved tops and double-breasted tops and change them into cylindrical skirts. Skirts and trousers have become a prominent symbol of marriage. Men can distinguish marriage by the color of Baotou. Generally, unmarried people play with white Baotou, while married people play with navy Baotou.

Clothing:

Achang people have all kinds of clothes. The man was wearing a blue, black or white double-breasted jacket, black trousers and a "tubular handkerchief" with a diagonal back. He likes to wear chrysanthemums with red silk thread on his chest. Unmarried men play with white Baotou, and married men play with navy Baotou. When young adults clean up, they always leave more than a foot of cloth behind their heads and arrange flowers in Baotou. Married women usually wear narrow sleeves, double-breasted clothes and skirts that cover their knees. They are wrapped in leggings and black or blue cloth.

Unmarried women wear pants instead of skirts, with braids on their heads and three-finger wide cloth around them, which is unique. Young Qiang men and women like to insert a flower in Baotou, mostly white chrysanthemum, which symbolizes integrity and purity.

Every New Year's Day, women wear silver ornaments. There are four silver buttons side by side on the young woman's chest, and there are four long handmade silver chains on the belt buckle. They wear silver boxes around their waists, silver foam bracelets on their wrists, silver collars around their necks and silver earrings on their ears. Men should wear beautiful "A Chang Dao" when they go out.

The same is true of traditional Achang men's wear. They wear plain double-breasted jackets such as blue, white and black, and black or blue trousers with black leggings. Unmarried men wear white Baotou, married men wear navy Baotou, and adult men in Lhasa, Longchuan County wear left-breasted shirts.