Essay on Folkways and Customs 200~300 words

The Dai dress, men with collarless lapel or lapel small-sleeved short shirt, under the black or white long tube pants, cold weather cloak felt, more white cloth or green cloth head. The custom of tattooing is very common, and when a boy is eleven or twelve years old, he is invited to be tattooed on his chest, back, abdomen, waist and limbs with various animals, flowers, geometric patterns or Daiwen and other floral patterns for decoration. Women traditionally wear narrow-sleeved short clothes and tube skirts. The costumes of Dai women are known to be beautiful and generous, with strong ethnic characteristics, and they vary from place to place. However, the three items of clothing, namely, hair-binding, skirt and short shirt, are the same. Dai women in Xishuangbanna wear white or scarlet underwear, with a small waist, wide hemline, and tube skirts of various colors. Women in Mangshi and other places wear light-colored lapel shirts before marriage, long pants, and a small girdle; after marriage, they change to sheep's lapel shirts and black tube skirts. The hair of Dai women is different from that of Miao, Yao and other ethnic groups in that they wear their hair in a bun at the back of the head or slightly to the side of the head, which is generally not tied, and some of them only wear bulbous combs or flower headscarves. The Dai women's tube skirts, which are like buckets, are different from those of the Jingpo, Wa, and Brown ethnic groups in that they are characterized by their length up to the instep. Dai women's short shirts, especially the narrow-sleeved short shirts of Xishuangbang, more unique ethnic style, sleeve tube and long and thin, only enough to wear into an arm; shirt body, in addition to tight, long only and waist, the back of the pendulum is not as long as the waist, a little spine exposed, sometimes hidden, for the whole clothing color a lot. Mainland Dai women's clothing and the border is largely the same, but there are regional characteristics, often called by other ethnic groups as "flower waist Dai", "big-sleeved Dai" and so on.

Tooth dyeing, teeth dyed black with black smoke, is considered a beauty by Dai women, as are tattoos for men and women. Outside Xishuangbanna, older women with black teeth can be seen everywhere, but they have disappeared among young people.

The dressing of Dai women is the most beautiful in the world, it is like the peacock opening its screen, colorful, beautiful and breathtaking. Anyone who knows the situation feels that this is not an exaggeration at all. Dai women generally grow up with a slim figure, face pure and delicate, look tingting jade, elegant, therefore known as the "golden peacock" of the United States. They are not only beautiful, but also good at dressing up, with unique clothing to dress themselves up one by one like a flower like jade. Dai women generally like to wear narrow-sleeved short clothes and uniform skirts, fully displaying their long and slim figure. Wearing a white or scarlet underwear on top, outside is a tight-fitting short blouse with a garden collar and narrow sleeves, a large lapel and a pair of lapels, and a variety of colors, such as water red, light yellow, light green, snow white, sky blue, etc. Nowadays, georgette is mostly used as the material of clothing. Nowadays, they are mostly sewn with georgette, silk, indeed and other materials. Narrow-sleeved short shirt tightly over the arm, almost no gap, there are many people also like to use flesh-colored clothing sewing, if not look carefully, but also do not see the sleeve tube, before and after the lapel just waist, tightly wrapped around the body, and then a silver belt tied with a short-sleeved shirt and the mouth of the unity skirt, under the long to the ankle of the unity skirt, the waist is slim and thin, the hemline is wide. Dai women's attire, fully demonstrated the female chest, waist, hip "three" beauty, plus the fabric used by the soft, bright and colorful, no matter walking or doing things, all give a person a kind of graceful, elegant and elegant feeling.

The Dai men generally wear collarless lapel or lapel small-sleeved shirts, long pants, white cloth, green cloth or scarlet cloth wrapped head, and some wear tweed hats, which make them look dashing and generous.

The Dai people, both men and women, always like to go out and carry a satchel made of woven silk on their shoulders (Tupa). Satchel colorful, simple style, with a strong color of life and national characteristics. Patterns of rare birds and animals, trees and flowers or geometric shapes, realistic images, lifelike. Each pattern contains specific content, such as: red, green is to commemorate the ancestors; peacock pattern indicates auspiciousness; elephant pattern symbolizes a bumper crop, a good life; fully expresses the Dai people's desire for a better life and the pursuit of.