What are the characteristics of Tujia costumes?

The structure and style of Tujia costumes are frugal and practical, and they like to be loose and simple in structure, but they pay attention to details, and they like to be loose, short in shorts and heavy in cuffs and legs. Men, women and children wear collarless roll-up cardigans with right lapels, and the collars at the hem will be embroidered with patterns. Embroidery is colorful and has strong national characteristics.

Tujia women wear collarless full-body clothes. The clothes are open to the left. There is an inch and a half wide lace embroidered from the top to the hem of the skirt. There is a big lace, two small laces and three small laces on each sleeve. The big lace is one inch and five inches wide, and the small lace is one finger wide. The sleeves are one foot and two inches, the lace width is the same as the sleeves, and the pants are about one foot and five inches.

In addition, the apron on the chest, commonly known as "mother's skirt", is semicircular on the apron and triangular below, and there is a circle of lace from the upper semicircle and the lower foot, which is about one inch wide. The apron is embroidered with flowers about five inches square on the chest, and the waist seal is a flower belt, which is woven with colorful silk threads, usually two feet long, with three inches of unwrapped flowers at both ends. Show the ingenuity of unearthed women.

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Tujia costume color

In the minds of Tujia people, red is the most popular among many colors. Red has a warm, bright, striking and harmonious feeling, so many people like red. Over time, not only in clothing, but also in life, there is a custom that there is no red without happiness, and there is red with happiness.

After returning home, due to the suppression of the feudal dynasty and the strong influence of the Central Plains culture, Tujia men's and women's costumes were completely overlapped, which changed the national costume of "no distinction between men and women" and added Tujia home textile lace to maintain the strong characteristics of this national costume.

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