What is the difference between the habits of the Dai, Jingpo, Achang, Naxi, Bai and Han Chinese?

Bai clothing in general, men's wear simple and plain, middle-aged and elderly clothing is more elegant, girls and children dress more colorful. Take the young girl's clothing as an example, the blouse is mostly white or light-colored lapel or shirt, tight cuffs set with various colors of lace. The outer cover is mostly red and light blue colored collar coat. White or light-colored pants are worn underneath. A short apron with lace and embroidered designs is worn around the waist. Wide floral belts and sashes are tightly bound around the waist, and the head is combed and coiled in the middle of a peach blossom or printed turban that is folded into a long strip and wrapped around a red headband with a bunch of snow-white tassels dangling from the left side, and the wrist wears a silver or jade bracelet. The feet wear embroidered shoes.

The Dali Bai embroidery patterns are more common in floral patterns, such as head scarves, waistbands, belts, straps, straw hat bands, shoe uppers and so on, most of which are dominated by flowers and plants.

Children's clothing in the hat, there are embroidered lion hat, tiger hat, rabbit hat, mouse hat, frog hat, cocked hat, fishtail hat, girl hat, etc., generally nailed on the silver ornaments. A hat is often dozens of workers to be made. Clothes and pants have a monk's robe, embroidered bib, embroidered waist, embroidered waist, embroidered wind, pants with socks, embroidered back. Shoes include embroidered lion's head shoes, tiger's head shoes, cat's head shoes, rabbit's head shoes, mouse's head shoes, winged head shoes, boat-shaped shoes, butterfly shoes and so on.

Bai men used to wear octagonal hats, octagonal scarves, Brizi straw hats with fluttering bands, and white and black bows. Embroidery on both sides of the head, hanging glass beads tassel. Clothes have "three drops of water", "five drops of water", lapel coat. There are many pieces of ordinary clothes with three packages and many buttons. The buttons are mostly silver or black collar. There are also many layers of multi-packed suede coats. The white cloth belt is more than ten feet long, and the short and wide leg ordinary pants. Middle-aged and elderly waist tied to load grass smoke suede, sheepskin pockets, very ethnic characteristics. Shoes have "elephant trunk shoes", cloth sandals, toe shoes often decorated with tasseled flowers. Elderly people wear red satin shoes, winged shoes. Men's clothing, has been changed into Han Chinese clothing, only in the around three spirit, torch festival and other national festivals can see some of the national characteristics of the dress.

Women's clothing in the girl's headdress is extremely elaborate, the most ethnic characteristics, like to comb a single braid, with a piece of picking flower headscarf, folded it into a long strip added to the top. Then use the red head rope around the long single hair braid, the braid pulled up, hair braid into a dragon, squeezed in the middle, on the dragon into a horse horn, down into the dragon phoenix tail. The tassel on the headband is tied under the left ear, and the wind blows and shakes, and the silver beads shine. Forehead tassel flower hair base into a string, both show the beauty of the girl's long hair, but also highlights the hair braids under the brightly colored headscarf, very full of wine freely rendering the white girl's hairstyle and headdress unique charm.

Bai girls to make a set of jewelry when they get married, snake bone chain, three beard, five beard, silver hanging chain, hanging on the syringe, goldfish and other ornaments; and gold, silver, jade, rattan bracelets, new silk tin, peach bracelet, bead bracelet, calf bracelet and so on. Jade bracelets and silver bracelets are the most valuable, wearing these two things is a symbol of married women; there are also a variety of rings, earrings, tubes, cap flowers, eight immortals, crown pin, dragon and phoenix, butterflies, head rows of locks, around the waist plate, the top ring and so on.

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Jingpo men like to wear white or black lapel garden-collar tops, wrapped headcloths adorned with lace patterns and small colorful velvet beads, and often wear waist knives and tube pads when they go out.

Women wear black lapels, black and red woven skirt and leg wraps. Women in full dress before and after the blouse and shoulders are adorned with many silver bubbles, silver pieces, neck hanging seven silver collars or a string of silver chains or silver bells, ears wear longer than the fingers of the silver ear tube, hands wear a pair or two pairs of thick carved flowers of the silver bracelet. The more women wear silver hand jewelry that the more capable, the richer. Some women also like to use rattan scotch woven into rattan circles, painted red, black paint, around the waist, and that the more rattan circles the more beautiful.

Jingpo people have "Jingpo", "Zaiwa", "Lang'e", "Laji", "Bra" and other five kinds of self-proclaimed. The colors of clothing are mainly black, white and red, with yellow, green, blue, brown and purple as matching colors, which are bright, contrasting, strong and harmonious. Traditionally, the textile materials of the Jingpo people are mainly cotton, wool and hemp, which are twisted into threads by hand and then woven into cloth. Leaves and other natural plant materials are processed to make dyes. Ornaments are mainly made of silver, while other accessories are made of rattan and straw.

The usual attire of the Jingpo people is very common, and there is no difference between what men wear and what Han Chinese wear, with men generally wearing short black lapeled jackets and short, wide trouser legs. Only some of the older people still wear large lapel tops and loose, fat pants, stay braids wrapped around the top of the head, wrapped in black cloth wrapped head.

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The headdress of Achang married women is unique. The high wrapped head is the unique headdress of married women in Lianghe area. In Achang language, it is called "Yakuang". This kind of headdress with self-weaving and dyeing both ends of the black cotton cloth long handkerchief wrapped around the head of the combed bun, the shape of the high and majestic, more than half a meter high, will be unfolded, up to 5 to 6 meters long. According to the survey, it has a package (wear) headdress custom in our country in many ethnic groups, Achang married women's headdress height in the first place. About its taboos are very much, pack and wear ceremony sacred and solemn, the first pack and wear must be after the wedding, by the children of the middle-aged women in the new room to help pack. Usually take the package, elders and juniors avoid each other, outsiders can not touch. About the origin of this headdress, folklore, there are two legends: one said that in ancient times, there is no heaven and earth, the world a chaos, the originator of Chapa Ma and Chai Mimas to create the sky and weave the earth, *** with the creation of mankind, however, the devil Lahmam made the sun chaos, Chapa Ma after several "fights, fights, dreams", and finally with the bow of the god shoots down the false sun, the world and a new lease on life! The world was reborn. It is said that the Achang women's high head is the sign of the arrow of the divine arrow that Chapa Ma shot down the false sun. Another legend: in the distant ancient times, the Achang homeland was invaded by foreign enemies. During a bloody battle, the men ran out of food and the women were blocked from delivering arrows. A woman came up with a brilliant idea, so that the front men are wrapped with cloth tape into a high head, the rear women will shoot arrows to the "high head" support. In this way, the men got support from the head of the bag and confused the enemy, who also shot arrows at the high head of the bag by mistake. Gao Baotou saved the lives of the Achang people and defended the Achang homeland. In order to commemorate this battle and the woman's wisdom and courage, Achang women have been wrapping up the high bun head since then.

Achang women's clothing is ancient and unique. The "Hanging Bladder" and "Flower Cutting Clothes" are the two distinctive clothes of Achang people in Lianghe. "Hanging bladder" a kind of shoulder-style small smock, mostly made of black silk or black cotton, lapel, nail silver buckle, hanging silver chain, three whiskers, gray box, syringe, small fish, ear spoons, forks, poke the head stick and other silver ornaments. Two rows of symmetrical silver bubbles and wide silver ornamental buttons are set off with shining silver, and their layout arrangement is close to the battle robes of the ancient generals who went to war.

Early Achang women in the wedding chapel and died in old age into the coffin, there is a specific custom, are to wear a cut flower clothes, the former that couples grow old together, life and death, the latter is believed to the netherworld can be and loved ones will meet. This kind of clothes is characterized by dark woolen texture, long-sleeved collarless lapel, nail round copper buttons, front lapel and clothes around the square or triangular pieces of cloth of various colors are sewn into geometric patterns, interspersed with embroidered floral motifs. This kind of clothes is simple and thick, complicated workmanship, often several people cooperate to complete. There is a folk legend about it: a long time ago, there was a family of Achang people, who worked hard and lived in harmony. Parents have three men and three women, the youngest sister named Lajiao, in the siblings in the smart and outstanding. Later, the father died of mother's illness, Lajiao for the comfort of his mother, so that his mother will always have flowers, they went to great lengths to find red, yellow, green, white juice from the mountains of the flower roots, pounded, boiled into water, dyed colorful pieces of cloth, a variety of colors intermixed with the sewing of the clothes, resembling a colorful colorful butterflies, Lajiao called it "shear flowers clothes", the mother wore it soon after the Her mother died soon after she put it on. Lajiao thinking of her mother into a disease, dreaming to go to the netherworld to see her mother, the old man guarding the door of the netherworld, said that there are thousands of ghosts here, but ordinary people can not see. Lajiao was very disappointed. Suddenly, she saw a new ghost wearing a flower-cut dress, which was her mother. After Lajiao recovered from her illness, she told her sisters that when they died, they could recognize each other even in the underworld as long as they wore flower-shearing clothes. So the sisters all sewed a flower-shearing garment before they got married, and wore it after the ceremony and after they died.

Lianghe area Achang newly married women to tie a flower belt, the Achang language called "a single Qi Salai", hand-woven from the key, above the dog's teeth, folk knife, bone, melon seeds, grain ears, earthworms, chicken claws, and other kinds of close to the daily life of the Achang tribe of plants and animals flower pattern case. Each pattern has a certain meaning, such as the dog's teeth can eliminate disasters and evil spirits, which is a reflection of dog totem worship, the long knife symbolizes the opening up of a new life, the melon seeds symbolize the prosperity of children and grandchildren; the ears of the grain indicate the abundance of the five grains. Flowers with fine workmanship, colorful, is one of the essential dowry for newly married women. On the wedding day, it as a special symbol of the bride tied to the waist, after the wedding, it will be treasured by the bride, to be the hostess died, as a "spirit belt" (soul symbols), take back to the bride's home, sacrificed seven days full of people and then returned by the descendants of the proper preservation.

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Naxi women are known for their diligence, virtue and kindness. Their traditional costumes have distinctive national characteristics, forming their own unique style. There are also differences in the costumes: Naxi women in Lijiang County around the Danyan wear a large lapel and wide-sleeved cloth robe, cuffs stroked to the elbow, plus purple or navy blue shoulders; under the pants, the waist tie with black, white, blue and other colors of cotton sewn around the waist, on the pleats, the next set of azure blue wide edge; back draped in the "seven-star sheepskin", sheepskin sewn on the upper end of the two long white belts, draped from the shoulder over the shoulder, and the back draped in "seven-star sheepskin", sheepskin sewn from the top of the shoulder over the shoulder, and the back draped in "seven star". The sheepskin is sewn with two long white belts at the upper end of the sheepskin, which are worn over the shoulder and interlaced in front of the chest and tied behind the waist. Sheepskin shawl elegant and generous, can play a decorative role, but also to warm the body to protect the body, in order to prevent the wind and rain and labor on the shoulder and back injury. Sheepskin shawl is an important symbol of Lijiang Naxi women's clothing. It is generally made of a piece of pure black sheepskin, cut for the top under the round, the upper part of the sewing with a 6 cm wide black edge, and then nailed to the bottom of a horizontal row of seven colorful embroidered round cloth plate, the center of the circle each draped with two white sheepskin belt, representing the Big Dipper, commonly known as the "Phi Xing Wearing the Moon," symbolizing the Naxi women out of the morning and back late at night, Phi Xing Wearing the Moon, in order to show that the diligent The meaning of hard work. Another view is that, above the round sheepskin is copied from the shape of the frog cut, and decorated with a disk on the back of the Naxi people called "Ba Miao", meaning "frog's eyes", this is the worship of frogs of Lijiang indigenous farming inhabitants and the worship of the sheep of the southern migration of the ancient Qiang people fused to form the product of the Naxi people. This is a product of the fusion of the frog-worshipping indigenous farming inhabitants of Lijiang and the sheep-worshipping ancient Qiang people.

There are two types of Naxi women's clothing. The first type is worn by a larger number of people in the Lijiang area and is more widely distributed. Lijiang Naxi women keep their hair braided, top handkerchiefs or hats. Generally, they wear a stand-up collar and right-over-right blouse. Clothes for the cloth buttons, long sleeves, wide waist, short front, long back, made of blue, white and other fabrics. Covered with a light lake blue, blue, fuchsia, red, black and other colors of cotton or woolen fabrics, corduroy sewing made of obeisance round neck shoulders, tie waist or skirt. Under the black or blue, gray pants, feet wearing embroidered shoes, cloth shoes or rubber shoes, back clad in seven stars sheepskin back decoration. This sheepskin back decoration is the most characteristic part of Naxi women's clothing, exquisite workmanship, chic modeling. The seven sun, moon and stars on the pattern, embroidered with colored threads, was decorated in two rows on the surface of the sheepskin back decoration. The second type is found in Zhongdian Bai Di. Naxi women there have long hair, tied behind the head or braided into a long braid, decorated with a patterned round silver plate. They wear a long white linen tunic with long forked lapels, with black lapels and colorful embroidery, and a belt with colorful latticework on a black background and woolen tassels. Underneath, they wear long pleated skirts with colorful stripes on the pants, felt shoes or boots, and white goat skins on their backs. The color of their clothing is simple and elegant, simple and generous. Naxi women everywhere generally wear earrings, rings and bracelets, some chest hanging silver beard spike.

The traditional dress of Naxi men is also roughly divided into two kinds: one is seen in Lijiang and the other in Zhongdian. Lijiang Naxi men have short hair and wear felt hats or wrapped buns. Among the felt hats, there is a kind of half-rolled brim, named Magpie's Nest Hat, which is very dashing and distinctive. On the upper body, they wear linen and cotton clothes and woolen felt or sheepskin kangs. The lower body wears black or blue pants, with a belt around the waist, and cloth or leather shoes. The Naxi men around Zhongdian Sanba wear linen clothes and pants, with right-over-legged or overlapping, long-sleeved jackets, clothes long enough to reach the abdomen, and wrapped around the head in red cloth. Naxi men's clothing in various places are relatively simple, bright colors, looks pure and natural.

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The Dai men's clothing varies little from place to place, generally more simple and generous, the upper body for the collarless lapel or lapel small-sleeved shirts, under the wide waist without pockets pants net color pants, more white, green cloth head, some wear tweed bowler hat, when it's cold, like to cloak the blanket, often barefoot in all seasons. This kind of clothing is light and comfortable in farming and labor, and makes the wearer look fit and dashing when dancing. Retained the ancient "clothes on the lapel", "head wrapped in a cloth scarf, like hanging backpacks, with a short sword" features, but the material has rarely used self-woven "soil cloth". Zhongshan clothes and suits have become the fashion of Dai young and strong men. In recent years, there is a collar lapel or lapel small-sleeved shirt, turban changed to aqua, green, pink silk, pants remain the same.

The Dai men generally do not wear jewelry, and occasionally a shiny silver bracelet is found on their wrists. Setting gold and silver teeth is their preference. They usually pull out their good incisors and replace them with false teeth made of gold or silver. In the past, there are tattoo custom, in the chest, back, abdomen, limbs and other places in the text symbols or lion and tiger, unicorn, peacock and other patterns, to show courage or pray for good luck.

The Dai women pay attention to dress, the pursuit of light, beautiful, elegant attire, coordinated clothing colors, extremely outstanding. Young women disk on top of the head, is a remarkable feature of the Dai dress. Dai women wear tight underwear of various colors on their upper bodies, light-colored large-breasted or narrow-sleeved shirts with lapels, and flower-colored tunic skirts on their lower bodies with various patterns woven on the skirts; Dai women like to pull their long hair up in buns, and insert combs, hairpins or flowers diagonally in their buns as decorations. Dai women like to wear jewelry, which is usually made of gold and silver, mostly hollow, and engraved with exquisite patterns and designs. A delicate silver belt is tied around the waist, which is said to be very precious and is passed down from mother to mother. In fact, this is a kind of token, if the girl will silver belt to which young man, it means she has fallen in love with him. Such costumes dress them up in a demonic beauty, graceful and elegant.

The Dai women generally grow up with a slim figure, pure and delicate face, look pavilion, elegant and generous, so there is a "golden peacock" of the beautiful name. They are not only beautiful, but also good at dressing up, with unique clothing to dress themselves up as a flower like jade. Dai women generally like to wear narrow-sleeved short clothes and uniform skirts, fully displaying their long and slim figure. Above wearing a white or scarlet underwear, outside is a tight-fitting short blouse, garden collar and narrow sleeves, there are large lapel, there is also a lapel, there are water red, light yellow, light green, snow white, sky blue and other colors. Now mostly with georgette yarn, silk, indeed and other materials sewn. Narrow-sleeved short shirt tightly over the arm, almost no gap, there are many people also like to use flesh-colored clothing sewing, if you do not look carefully can not see the sleeve, just before and after the lapel waist, tightly wrapped around the body, and then a silver belt tied to the short-sleeved shirt and skirt mouth, under the ankle-length tunic skirt, waist slim and small, wide hemline. Dai women's attire, fully demonstrated the female chest, waist, hips, "three" beauty, coupled with the fabric used by the soft, bright and colorful, no matter walking or doing things, all give people a graceful, elegant and elegant feeling.

Today's Dai women wear light-colored collarless and sleeveless tight-fitting chest coats (Dai women in towns and cities often wear bras), collarless and thin-sleeved tight-fitting short clothes, and tube skirts, short clothes and waists, and long skirts and the ground. Long skirt folded, more silver belt tied at the waist, the show is obvious, when the convergence of the convergence, so that women's curves are clear, the lower limbs are long, showing the slender posture of the Pavilion. Town women have very few scarves, more buns on the top, insert flowers, hairpins, card comb for decoration, more visible style. The color of clothes and skirts is peacock green, light green, flesh red and pink, light yellow and soft yellow. Clothing materials are mostly made of thin and soft georgette yarn, indeed or brocade silk sewing. When going out to participate in rallies or catching the swing, foot on the fashionable shoes, sandals, elbow hanging bags, hand-held umbrellas to shield the hot sun, everywhere showing a beautiful and moving style. Dress style in the absorption of traditional clothing "essence" on the basis of the beautiful, gentle, bright, elegant direction. Further show the peacock feathers of the peacock township like colorful features.