Brief introduction of Miao costumes

Miao costumes, called "Ouqian" in Miao language, are mainly composed of children's clothes, casual clothes and costumes. "Dressing up" is called "Ouqian Gagaixi" in Miao language, that is, "lifting the bottom coat", and "Ouqian Tao" is called "silver coat" in Miao language, with pleated skirts and waist. Miao costume is one of the most beautiful costumes of all ethnic groups in China. It is not only a wonderful flower in China culture, but also a treasure of history and culture. Xiangxi dialect and eastern Guizhou dialect Miao areas like silver ornaments, while some areas in southern Guizhou like shellfish ornaments, while Miao costumes in western dialect areas are less silvery ornaments. Silver ornaments, Miao Xiu and batik are the main features of Miao costumes.

The casual clothes of Miao men and women in Qiandongnan Prefecture are relatively simple. Men's jackets are generally divided into three categories: left-breasted jackets, double-breasted jackets and left-breasted gowns, of which double-breasted jackets are the most common. The bottoms are generally big-footed pants with wide legs. There are generally two kinds of women's casual tops: right-handed tops and t-neck cross tops on the chest, and various pleated pants and trousers on the bottom.

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1. Complex Miao costumes are divided into several categories:

Xiangxi style is popular in Xiangxi Prefecture of Hunan and the border areas of Hunan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Hubei provinces. In ancient times, the custom of storing vertebral buns for men and women has disappeared. Today, I wore a round neck, a big shirt and a short coat.

Eastern Guizhou type, popular in southeastern Guizhou. Men's clothes are mostly blue homespun clothes and trousers, covered with green heads. Women's wear is based on collared tops and pleated skirts, and is made of green homespun.

South-central Guizhou type, popular in south-central Guizhou and the junction of Guizhou, Guangxi and Yunnan. Shirts are often covered with lapels and back handkerchief, and there are blue pleated skirts and batik skirts under them.

Hainan type, popular in Hainan Province. Women's dresses are mostly right-leaning blue robes, batik tube skirts and few flower ornaments.

2. The characteristics of Miao costumes:

From the content point of view, clothing patterns are mostly based on various vivid images in daily life, which play an important role in expressing ideas, identifying races, branches and languages. These video records are called "epic worn on the body" by experts and scholars.

From the modeling point of view, China's traditional line drawing or approximate line drawing modeling technique with single line as the outline of the pattern is adopted. From the perspective of production techniques, the five forms of weaving, sewing, splicing and cutting in the history of costume development are all examples in Qiandongnan Miao costumes, with distinct historical levels, which can be called the exhibition hall of costume production history.

From the color point of view, they are good at choosing all kinds of contrasting colors, and strive to pursue the richness of colors, generally red, black, white, yellow and blue.

From the composition point of view, it does not emphasize the prominent theme, but only pays attention to the requirements of the overall sense of clothing. Formally, it can be divided into formal clothes and casual clothes.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Miao clothing