White clothing

Bai nationality men and women clothing

Bai people advocate white, and white clothes look noble. Men usually wear white or blue headscarves, white double-breasted clothes, black collars and jackets, and white and blue trousers. Bai men in the east of Erhai Lake wear suede collars, or leather and satin collars, embroidered bellies and blue or black trousers at the waist. When they go out, they often carry bags, and some even carry long knives.

Women's wear varies from place to place. In Dali area, people often wrap their heads with embroidered cloth or colored towels, and wear white coats and red vests, or light blue coats and coats with black velvet collars. Silver ornaments of "three beards" and "five beards" are hung on the right, and short waist, wide blue trousers and embroidered shoes are embroidered at the waist.

Women's headdresses are even more colorful: unmarried women in Dali comb their braids, put them outside the flower handkerchief, wrap them with flower ribbons, and hang a bunch of Bai Liusu on the left; After marriage, the braid is changed into a bun, put on the top of the head, wrapped with a dyed or batik blue cloth handkerchief and wrapped with plain cloth strips. Girls in Yufeng, Deng Chuan and Eryuan like to wear "Fengpa"; In some places, flowers are wrapped in towels or braids are wrapped around their heads, and then a bunch of red ropes are wrapped around them; In some places, the headdress is "one tile"; In some places, people's heads are covered with many pieces of head cloth, and the outermost piece of cloth is embroidered with patterns that Bai people like. It's especially nice to surround it with headbands of various colors. Women like bracelets and pendant earrings with jade or silver. Urban residents wear more Chinese clothes, while young people love fashion.

Hand-thank: In Fengyubaozi, Eryuan County, Yunnan Province, Bai girls and their daughters-in-law have learned the custom of making hand-thank since childhood. Women who can't make birthday shoes are often ridiculed as incompetent. Hand shoes, made of red satin or cloth. A long-lived pattern is spelled out on the toe, and an elegant pine and cypress is embroidered under the pattern, embroidered with blue silk thread; The heel of the vamp is a symmetrical right triangle pattern; Three-layer sole. Wearing long-lived shoes marks that people have entered old age, which is both blessed and blessed. Talents usually start to wear their first pair of shoes on their 60th birthdays. Old people with many children receive a pair of birthday shoes from their daughters and daughters-in-law every year. The more shou shoes are collected, it shows that the old man has worked hard all his life, and his children are at his knees. He has taught them well and won the respect of future generations. When the old people walk through the streets wearing long-lived shoes, people always cast envious eyes. The old people feel happy and their children feel glorious.