Types of Traditional Hats in Uyghur Clothing

Types of Traditional Hats in Uyghur Clothing

Uyghur men, women and children have the custom of wearing hats. All of them love to wear "Dopa" (four-pronged small flower hat), and the patterns on the hat crown are colorful. Below I have organized for you the Uyghur clothing in the traditional hat related knowledge. Let's come into the Uyghur dress!

Uyghur hats and headdresses of many kinds, in the Uyghur dress most characteristic of Uyghur men and women like to wear hats, because wearing a hat not only has the function of cold or heat, more importantly, as a life rituals in . It is necessary to wear it on occasions such as socializing, visiting relatives and friends, as well as festive gatherings. Uyghur traditional hats are mainly leather hats and flower hats of two categories.

Leather hats are mainly used for cold, mostly made of sheepskin, but also fox skin, civet skin, rabbit skin, dry otter skin, sea otter skin, ermine and so on. There are mainly the following kinds:

1, white spit mark (Kashgar white leather cap)

Mainly worn by young men, shaped like a deep bowl, made of sheepskin, fleece inside, leather plate outside, the top of the four thick rhombic horns, in the lower rim, there is a circle of white or black woolen edge.

2. Atushi Tumak

The cap is made of black flat velvet or velvet, shaped like a mantle, shallower than the Kashi Tumak, with a circle of fur along the lower edge made of dry otter or sable.

3, Sailor Pichet Tumak

The shape of the same as the white cap, but the fabric is made of flat velvet or velvet, along the edge of the thinner, and made of mink or other animal skins, this cap is generally worn by the middle-aged and elderly men and religious people.

4, Ou Zhe Toumak

The cap is about 30 centimeters high, the shape of the class trapezoidal, columnar, divided into two layers, to the general wool skin as a lining, black lambskin for the face, men and women farmers wear, women's hats worn mainly by elderly women.

5, the open wood cutter Tumark

Along the edge of the wider, sewn with sea otter skin, cap circle cap with black or coffee-colored flat velvet, velvet for the face, this cap in the past, mostly for the noblewoman to wear, and now more for the elderly to wear.

6, Kulakcha

is the Uyghur masses often wear leather hats in winter, the basic shape is round, both sides of the hat flap longer, can be up and down activities. Kulakcha one of the main types of lamb skin Kulakcha, is one of the more distinctive, made of lamb skin, the color part of the black or gray, it can not be turned down on both sides of the flap, but only a kind of decorative; Kali Parker (felt hat), felt outside the cloth, and so on.

Leather hats were originally worn in winter, with the role of warmth and cold. But the Uyghur people have the custom of wearing leather hats in the summer, because it also has the role of keeping the head skin moist and prevent heat.