Information about Miao Clothing

Introduction to Hmong Costumes If the Hmong girls in full costume gather together, it will become a beautiful silver world. It is the nature of the Miao girls to wear silver jewelry, they pull their hair in a bun on top of their heads and put on a silver crown about 20 centimeters high, beautifully made, with six silver wings of varying heights inserted in front of the crown, most of which are made of two dragons playing with beads. In some areas, in addition to inserting silver pieces of silver crown, but also inserted about 1 meter high silver bullhorn, the tip of the horn Department of colorful floats, more noble and magnificent. Silver crown along the lower edge of the circle hanging silver flower belt, hanging a row of small silver flower pendant, wearing a silver collar on the neck has several layers, more than a silver piece of beaten flowers and small silver ring even set and become. Chest wearing silver locks and silver pressure collar, chest, back wearing a silver cloak, hanging many small silver bells. The earrings and bracelets are all silver. Only the two sleeves show embroidery in a fiery red color, but the cuffs are also inlaid with a wider circle of silver ornaments. Miao girls often have several kilograms of dress, some of which have been inherited for several generations. Known as "flower clothes and silver Sai Tianxian" beauty. Miao silver craft, ornate and elaborate, ingenious, fully displaying the wisdom and talent of the Miao people. Miao girl's skirt called pleated skirt, but in fact a skirt on the pleats have more than 5,000, and the number of layers, some as many as thirty, forty layers. These skirts from weaving cloth to bleaching and dyeing sewing, until the final drawing embroidery, are the girls themselves independently completed, plus hand-embroidered flower belt, flower chest pocket, really colorful, beautiful.

Information about the Miao people The Miao people are now mainly concentrated in the southeast of Guizhou Province, Guangxi Damiao Mountain, Hainan Island and Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi and other provinces and regions of the border zone. The population is 7,398,000 (1990 fourth census), the fourth largest among the ethnic minorities.

In ancient Chinese texts, there have long been records about the ancestors of the Miao people more than 5,000 years ago, which are the clans and tribes from the Yellow River basin to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River known as the "Southern Barbarians".

The Miao people have their own language, the Miao language belongs to the Han-Tibetan language family Miao language branch. It is divided into three major dialects: Xiangxi, Qiandong, and Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan. 1956 after the design of the Latin alphabet form of the writing program. As a result of the long-term interaction between the Miao and Han Chinese, a large part of the Miao people are fluent in Chinese and use the Chinese language.

The Miao are a people who can sing and dance well, and are especially famous for their flying songs, love songs and wine songs. The Lusheng is the most representative musical instrument of the Miao.

The Miao area is mainly agricultural, supplemented by hunting. The Miao's arts and crafts, such as flower picking, embroidery, brocade weaving, batik, paper-cutting, and hand-decorated jewelry making, are magnificent and colorful, and are famous both at home and abroad. Among them, the batik craft of the Miao people has a thousand-year history. There are more than 130 kinds of Miao costumes, which are comparable to those of any other ethnic groups in the world.

The Miao "Flower Jumping Festival".

"Jumping Flower Festival"

is a cultural event mainly characterized by blowing the reed-sheng with songs and dances

and it is also a good time to show the Miao costumes.

The Miao used to worship nature and ancestors. The biggest festival is "Xisong" (ancestor worship), which is held once a year after the fall. Bullfighting (bullfighting) is a favorite activity of the Miao people, which is held every year in the first month, the Dragon Boat Festival, Torch, Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals.

The etiquette of the Miao people are: guests visit, must kill chickens and ducks hospitality, if it is a long way to the guests, some places have to set up wine in front of the village to meet. When eating chicken, the chicken head should be honored to the guests in the elders, chicken legs should be given to the youngest guests. In some places, there is the custom of sharing the heart of the chicken, i.e., the oldest master of the house with chopsticks to the heart of the chicken or duck heart to the guests, but the guests can not eat themselves, must be the heart of the chicken equally divided among the elderly in the audience. Some places also honor "horn wine", "comb meat", guests accept one by one, the host is most happy. If the guests are small, do not like to eat fat meat, you can explain the situation, the host is not forced, but do not eat and drink enough, is seen as looking down on the host.

Splendid and colorful Miao costumes

Miao Autonomous Regions

After the founding of the State Council, there were:

Hainan Li and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (July 1, 1952)

Rongshui Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Guangxi (November 26, 1952)

Weining Yi *** Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou (1954) November 11, 1954)

Guizhou Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (July 23, 1956)

Guizhou Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (August 8, 1956)

Hunan Chengbu Miao Autonomous Prefecture (November 30, 1956)

Hunan Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (September 20, 1957)

Yunnan Wenshi Miao Autonomous Prefecture (November 26, 1952)

Yunnan Rongshui Miao Autonomous Prefecture (November 26, 1952)

Yunnan Wenning Yi *** Miao Autonomous Prefecture (November 11, 1954) p>

Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan (April 1, 1958)

Zhenning Buyi and Miao Autonomous County, Guizhou (September 11, 1963)

Ziyun Miao and Buyi Autonomous County, Guizhou (February 11, 1966)

Guanling Buyi and Miao Autonomous County, Guizhou (December 31, 1981)

Guizhou Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (May 1, 1982)

Xiushan Miao and Tujia Autonomous County, Sichuan (November 7, 1983)

Youyang Miao and Tujia Autonomous County, Sichuan (November 11, 1983)

Hubei Hubei Hubei Eshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (December 1, 1983)

Sichuan Pengshui Miao and Tujia Autonomous County (November 10, 1984)

Qianjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Sichuan (November 13, 1984)

Luquan Yi and Miao Autonomous County, Yunnan (1985)

Jinping Miao and Yao Dai Autonomous County, Yunnan (1985)

Two Miao women making colorful leather paper. Guizhou Province

The white paper production process in Shiqiao Fort, Danzhai County, has a history of more than 1,000 years.

For more than 1,000 years, the local Miao people have borrowed

from the Han paper-making technology to make white paper from the abundant bark of the local trees and

cedar roots, and the paper-making process is very similar to that documented by the Ming dynasty's Song

The Tiangongqiayou (Heavenly Creative Things), a book written by Yingxing.

The paper making process is similar to the paper making method recorded in the "Tian Gong Kai Wu" written by Ying Xing in the Ming Dynasty

and maintains the tradition of producing leather paper in ancient China.

Daily Food Customs The Hmong in most areas eat three meals a day, with rice as the main food. Most of them first dry the rice (or kang dry) into the pestle and pounded to remove the rice bran ...... >>

Information on the Miao The Miao now live mainly in the southeast of Guizhou Province, the Damiao Mountains of Guangxi, Hainan Island and the border areas of Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi and other provinces and regions. The population is 7,398,000 (1990 fourth census), the fourth largest among the ethnic minorities.

In ancient Chinese texts, there have long been records about the ancestors of the Miao people more than 5,000 years ago, which are the clans and tribes from the Yellow River basin to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River known as the "Southern Barbarians".

The Miao have their own language, the Miao language belongs to the Miao branch of the Han-Tibetan language family. It is divided into three major dialects: Xiangxi, Qiandong, and Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan. 1956 after the design of the Latin alphabet form of the writing program. As a result of the long-term interaction between the Miao and Han Chinese, a large part of the Miao people are fluent in Chinese and use the Chinese language.

The Miao are a people who can sing and dance well, and are especially famous for their flying songs, love songs and wine songs. The Lusheng is the most representative musical instrument of the Miao.

The Miao area is mainly agricultural, supplemented by hunting. The Miao's arts and crafts such as flower picking, embroidery, brocade weaving, batik, paper-cutting, and hand-decorated ornaments are magnificent and colorful, and are famous both at home and abroad. Among them, the batik craft of the Miao people has a thousand-year history. There are more than 130 kinds of Miao costumes, which are comparable to those of any other ethnic groups in the world.

The Miao "Flower Jumping Festival".

"Jumping Flower Festival"

is a cultural event mainly characterized by blowing the reed-sheng with songs and dances

and it is also a good time to show the Miao costumes.

The Miao used to worship nature and ancestors. The biggest festival is "Xisong" (ancestor worship), which is held once a year after the fall. Bullfighting (bullfighting) is a favorite activity of the Miao people, which is held every year in the first month, the Dragon Boat Festival, Torch, Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals.

The etiquette of the Miao people are: guests visit, must kill chickens and ducks hospitality, if it is a long way to the guests, some places have to set up wine in front of the village to meet. When eating chicken, the chicken head should be honored to the guests in the elders, chicken legs should be given to the youngest guests. In some places, there is the custom of sharing the heart of the chicken, i.e., the oldest master of the house with chopsticks to the heart of the chicken or duck heart to the guests, but the guests can not eat themselves, must be the heart of the chicken equally divided among the elderly in the audience. Some places also honor "horn wine", "comb meat", guests accept one by one, the host is most happy. If the guests are small, do not like to eat fat meat, you can explain the situation, the host is not forced, but do not eat and drink enough, is seen as looking down on the host.

Splendid and colorful Miao costumes

Miao Autonomous Regions

After the founding of the State Council, there were:

Hainan Li and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (July 1, 1952)

Rongshui Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Guangxi (November 26, 1952)

Weining Yi *** Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou (1954) November 11, 1954)

Guizhou Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (July 23, 1956)

Guizhou Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (August 8, 1956)

Hunan Chengbu Miao Autonomous Prefecture (November 30, 1956)

Hunan Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (September 20, 1957)

Yunnan Wenshi Miao Autonomous Prefecture (November 26, 1952)

Yunnan Rongshui Miao Autonomous Prefecture (November 26, 1952)

Yunnan Wenning Yi *** Miao Autonomous Prefecture (November 11, 1954) p>

Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan (April 1, 1958)

Zhenning Buyi and Miao Autonomous County, Guizhou (September 11, 1963)

Ziyun Miao and Buyi Autonomous County, Guizhou (February 11, 1966)

Guanling Buyi and Miao Autonomous County, Guizhou (December 31, 1981)

Guizhou Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (May 1, 1982)

Xiushan Miao and Tujia Autonomous County, Sichuan (November 7, 1983)

Youyang Miao and Tujia Autonomous County, Sichuan (November 11, 1983)

Hubei Hubei Hubei Eshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (December 1, 1983)

Sichuan Pengshui Miao and Tujia Autonomous County (November 10, 1984)

Qianjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Sichuan (November 13, 1984)

Luquan Yi and Miao Autonomous County, Yunnan (1985)

Jinping Miao and Yao Dai Autonomous County, Yunnan (1985)

Two Miao women making colorful leather paper. Guizhou Province

The white paper production process in Shiqiao Fort, Danzhai County, has a history of more than 1,000 years.

For more than 1,000 years, the local Miao people have borrowed

from the Han paper-making technology to make white paper from the abundant bark of the local trees and

cedar roots, and the paper-making process is very similar to that documented by the Ming dynasty's Song

The Tiangongqiayou (Heavenly Creative Things), a book written by Yingxing.

The paper making process is similar to the paper making method recorded in the "Tian Gong Kai Wu" written by Ying Xing in the Ming Dynasty

and maintains the tradition of producing leather paper in ancient China.

Daily Food Customs The Hmong in most areas eat three meals a day, with rice as the main food. Most of them first dry the rice (or kang dry) into the pestle and mortar to pound away the rice bran ...... >>

Characteristics of the Miao dress Miao maiden Qiandongnan Miao dress no less than 200 kinds, is China and the world's largest variety of Miao dress, the best-preserved area, known as the "Miao dress museum". In general, the Miao costumes maintain the traditional craft techniques of weaving, embroidery, picking and dyeing of Chinese folklore, and often use one main craft technique while interspersing other craft techniques, or picking with embroidery, or dyeing with embroidery, or weaving and embroidery, so that these costumes are full of colorful patterns and display distinctive national artistic characteristics. From the content point of view, most of the costume patterns are taken from various living objects in daily life, which play an important role in expressing meaning and recognizing ethnic groups, clans and languages, and the records of these images are called "epics worn on the body" by experts and scholars. From the styling point of view, the traditional Chinese line-drawing or almost line-drawing styling method of using a single line as the outline of the pattern is adopted. From the point of view of production techniques, the five types of forms in the history of costume development, namely, the compilation type, the weaving type, the sewing type, the assembling type and the tailoring type, are exemplified in the costumes of the Miao people of Qiandongnan, with a clear relationship between the historical hierarchy, which is comparable to the exhibition hall of the history of costume production. From the point of view of color, they are good at choosing a variety of strong contrasting colors, and strive to pursue the richness of the color and the heavy sense of voluptuousness, generally red, black, white, yellow and blue. From the composition, it does not emphasize the highlighting of the theme, but only focuses on adapting to the requirements of the overall sense of clothing. From the form, divided into dress and casual wear. Dressy, for the festival ceremony and marriage when wearing clothing, complex and gorgeous, focusing on the artistic level of the Miao dress. Casual dress, style than dress style quiet, simple, with less material, less labor, for daily wear. In addition to the dress and casual wear, the Miao dress and age and regional differences.

This is also the reason why the Hmong dress is an encyclopedia on the body.

Miao girls love to wear pleated skirts, with more than 500 pleats on a skirt, and many layers, some as many as 30 to 40 layers. These skirts from the textile cloth to bleaching and dyeing sewing, until the final drawing embroidery, are the girls themselves independently completed, plus hand-embroidered flower belt, flower chest pocket, really colorful, beautiful.

Speaking of "clothes", we have to think of "jewelry".

Headdresses include silver horns, silver fans, silver hats, silver scarves, silver floating head rows, silver hairpins, silver pins, silver topiary, silver net chain, silver comb, silver earrings, silver children's hats.

伐 假若盛装的苗族姑娘汇聚在一起，那一定会变成一个美丽的银色世界。 Like to wear silver is the nature of the Miao girls, they pull hair in a bun on top of the head, wearing a high of about 20 centimeters or so, made of beautifully crafted silver crowns, crowns inserted in front of the 6 uneven heights of the silver wings, most of the top of the production of two dragons playing with the beads, butterflies, butterfly, phoenix and sunrise, the phoenix and phoenix, swim in the water fish play water Miao silver jewelry patterns. In some areas, in addition to inserting silver pieces of silver crown, but also inserted about 1 meter high silver bullhorn, the tip of the horn Department of colorful floats, more noble and magnificent. Silver crown along the lower edge of the circle hanging silver flower belt, hanging a row of small silver flower pendant, the neck to wear a silver collar has several layers, more than a silver piece of beaten flowers and small silver ring even set and become. Chest wearing silver locks and silver pressure collar, chest, back wearing a silver cloak, hanging many small silver bells. The earrings and bracelets are all silver. Only the two sleeves show embroidery in a fiery red color, but the cuffs are also inlaid with a wider circle of silver ornaments. Miao girls often have several kilograms of dress, some of which have been inherited for several generations. Known as "flower clothes and silver Sai Tianxian" beauty. Miao silver craft, ornate and elaborate, ingenious, fully displaying the wisdom and talent of the Miao people.

Miao dress (to figure and introduction) Miao dress style, colorful. In the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, there are five Miao dresses in the Southern Barbarians. South Barbarians" in the five streams (five streams: today's western Hunan and Guizhou, Sichuan, Hubei junction, so there are five streams and named) Miao "good five-color clothes" records; Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu also has "five streams of clothes *** cloudy sky" of the famous poem. Miao women's clothing has more than one hundred kinds of styles, which can be called the most ethnic clothing in China. Miao clothing is a symbol and symbol of the original Miao people, is a rule and history of the stub, a wordless calendar, a silent language and signs.

The Miao costumes are different due to gender, age, marriage and other circumstances, and there are regional differences, but all maintain a traditional style from ancient times to the present. Miao women generally wear narrow-sleeved, large-necked, short jacket with lapel and pleated skirt. The skirt or long enough to reach the foot, flowing and colorful, or shorter than the knee, graceful and moving. Casual wear is more in the head wrapped bandana, upper body lapel short jacket, lower body pants, embroidered lace, tie a picture of embroidered waist, plus a little delicate silver jewelry to set off. Hmong pleated skirt, colorful pattern, more embroidery, brocade, batik, pick flower decoration. The colors of the dresses are mainly red, blue, yellow, white and black, which maintains the tradition of the Miao forefathers of "three Miao" and "good five-color clothes". The materials used for the costumes are mainly raw materials produced in the place of residence, mostly cotton, hemp and wool, etc., which are finely knitted and woven by family workshops. Miao men's attire is relatively simple, the upper garment is mostly a pair of lapel short jacket or right-over-oblique long shirt, shoulder draped with geometric patterns of wool felt, head wrapped in green wrapped head, wrapped around the calves tied legs.

What we mean by the variety of styles of Miao clothing is mainly the Miao women's festival dress or dress. Miao clothing can be divided into five types according to the region: Qiandongnan type, Qianzhongnan type, Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan type, Xiangxi type and Hainan type five.

Qiandongnan Miao costume: circulated in Guizhou Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture of 16 counties and cities and Duyun, Libo, Sandu, Xingren, Anshun, Guangxi Rongshui, Sanjiang and other regions. The blouse has a large collar with a lapel or a half-body with a right overlapping obeisance. The pleated skirts are of different lengths, and they wear various types of girdles and bindings. Hair buns are also quite different. There are about 30 kinds of Miao costumes in Qiandongnan.

Qianzhongnan Miao dress: mainly popular in Guiyang, Longli, Guiding, Huishui, Pingba, Anshun, Pingtang, Luodian, Yunnan's Qubei, Wenshan, Mali and Guangxi Longlin and other places. It is characterized by black, white and blue thread embroidered dresses or batik. It has a large collar with a lapel opening, pleated skirt, wrapped dupatta or turban, and bun hair. There are five styles of Miao costumes in Qianzhongnan.

Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan Miao Clothing: It is mainly found in the south of Sichuan, west of Guizhou, northwest of Guizhou and northeast of Yunnan, northwest of Gui, as well as Zhaotong, Weixin, Chuxiong, Jinsha and other places in Yunnan. Clothing materials are mainly linen, the color of clothing is lighter, and the batik process is common. The costumes and hairstyles are varied.

Xiangxi Miao Clothing: Mainly in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Songtao in Guizhou, Xiushan and Youyang in Sichuan, and Exi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hubei. There are colorful headscarves and variant styles, and there are also eight kinds of costumes.

Hainan Miao dress: Because the Hainan Miao are influenced by the local Li dress, Miao women wear a right placket long and knee-length long shirt, only a buckle, no collar, batik skirt, mainly black, red, less patterned, bundled hair, wrapped in an embroidered patterned bandana, and then outside the cover of an embroidered lace with a sharp angle of the head of the handkerchief, set on a red belt hanging down on the back, showing a very different from the rest of the Hmong dress.

The Miao do not have words, she takes the dress as a carrier, so the Miao clothing not only has practical value, high aesthetic or ornamental value, and deep cultural connotation, it also has a very high level of production technology. The art of batik and embroidery of the Miao people represents the art of making Miao clothing. The batik craft of the Miao has a thousand-year history. Generally, Miao batik is made by drawing various patterns on the whole piece of cloth before dyeing. Miao embroidery techniques are diverse and rich in patterns. According to statistics, there are as many as twelve kinds of Miao embroidery techniques, including flat embroidery, picking flower, lock embroidery, stacking flower, sticking cloth, hitting seed embroidery, nail thread embroidery, braid embroidery, crepe embroidery, tin embroidery, horsetail embroidery, etc.; there are two kinds of tones, one is red tone, the other one is purple tone, and the bottom is basically black; the patterns are also extremely rich, with various kinds of flowers, paddy fields, fish, birds, dragons, phoenixes, and all the things that are available in the nature can be used as the patterns to be embroidered on the clothes. There are also a lot of embroidery patterns with legends and stories in them. The use of Miao embroidery is mainly used as the decoration of the hood, collar, obeisance, sleeve waist, cuffs, shoulder, back, hem, belt, girdle, skirt, skirt pieces, leg wraps, shoes and other parts of the Miao clothing.

The pattern of the Miao costume is a national history book worn on the body: the colorful lines on the pleated skirt are a river, a mountain road; the back plate on the back of the square pattern of the ring type, is once owned by the city, with streets, walls, corner buildings; that shawl ...... >>

Pictures of Miao Clothing Men's clothing is black without collar, fat body lapel coat, buttons for metal products, the lower garment has been changed to Han Chinese clothing. Shaved head or long scarf wrapped around the head

What is the symbolism of the Miao dress? The symbolism of Miao clothing is:

[History of Miao] Interpretation of Miao clothing

Almost every piece of the current Miao clothing style and ornaments are hidden with extremely ancient cultural connotations. The comprehensive interpretation system composed of a certain dress symbol system and the corresponding epic, myth, legend, and custom interpretation plays a great role in carrying on the tradition, tracing the roots, remembering the ancestors, recounting the past, and storing the cultural information. Among the hundreds of gardens of ethnic minority costumes, the Miao costumes are the most systematic reflection of the historical consciousness of ancestral origins and war migrations. A considerable part of the Miao costume can be said to be the symbolic carrier of historical consciousness, and the ancestral origin and war migration can also be said to be the mother theme of the Miao costume for thousands of years.

Songtao in Northeast China and Xiangxi Miao's "steed flying across" and "river waves" patterns; "heaven and earth" of the Miao in Weining and Hezhang in Northwest China and Yiliang in Northeast Yunnan, "mountains", "fields", "rivers" and "cities"; the "Yellow River", "Yellow River" and "City" motifs of the Miao in southern Sichuan; and the "Yellow River", "Yellow River", "Yellow River", "Yellow River" and "Yellow River" motifs of the Miao in southern Sichuan. "Yellow River", "Yangtze River", "city" pattern; Guiyang suburb of Gaopo Miao "Chi seal" pattern; The "Old Woman Imitation"

(Yellow River), "Old Woman Yuk" (Yangtze River), and "Gaixia" (Military Flag) patterns of the Miao in Kaili, Huangping, Shibing, and Taijiang areas in Southeast Guizhou Province are The "Gaixia" (military flag) motifs, etc., are the bloom of their historical traditions on the costumes. They are the mother of all the patterns of the Miao women's dresses, which means "mother's flower". That is, the main pattern is the "mother flower". Pattern conception, design, modeling not only cohesion of the crystallization of the labor wisdom of the Miao women: but also expresses the memories and feelings of remembrance of the Miao people on the historical ancestral homeland, war, migration. Cohesion of a huge psychological capacity and a strong sense of *** color of many archetypes. It is a social and historical meaning precipitation, a deep accumulation of symbols.

"Stallion Flying Over"

The pattern is the most popular pattern of lace and flower belt of the Miao around Phoenix, Guzhang and Songtao. It is characterized by its ancient and simple tone, plain and generous. Modeling is: first appeared a flooding river. The Miao language is called "buried Mai buried Qing", that is, "muddy river"

meaning. Hmong women are said to be based on the base color of the lace band. Lace pattern is made up of countless like "horse" pattern, connected to each other into a string across the middle of the river, indicating that ten thousand horses flying across the Yellow River, galloping in the Central Plains. The Hmong language is called "Da Mai file service"

or "Da Mai long service". Means "horse flying across the river". "Damai" that is, "Pegasus" image, there are "Mai single" has been foot horse, "Mai hook" a change of foot horse points, "Mai single" has been foot horse, "Mai hook" a change of foot horse.

More abstract. Only from the name can be associated with their resemblance to the upright horsehair and either curved or straight horse feet, its modeling and the Chinese character "horse" close to the original form. Although the composition is simple, it is full of the momentum of taking off in the air, and it contains the meaning of courage and tenacity.

On both sides of the countless triangular-shaped or like a tower of mountains stacked mountains arranged one on top of the other, the Miao language called the "high Ben Gaojie"

and "Bi Gao". Meaning "gold and silver mountains"

(the ancient song of the Hmong people has a thousand words describing the activities of "transporting gold and silver" scene). The mountains and hills are very high. Colorful. When weaving these patterns (Shanta). Are using red, green, blue, yellow, orange and purple colors of silk thread pick embroidery and become. Give a person a feeling of cliffs and valleys.

"Stallion flying across"

The two sides of the pattern with a railroad track-like pattern inlaid with the direction of the extension of the water flow, the Miao language called "Nai Gou Arden", the Chinese meaning is "footprints on the road! "(This pattern is used quite frequently in the embroidery of Miao women's clothing in the central dialect of Qiandongnan. (This pattern is frequently used in the embroidery of the clothing of the Miao women of Qiandongnan, a dialect of central China, where the local Miao language calls it "strang-o", which means "river"; this "river"

pattern is also quite common in the batik of the Miao people of Hainan Island).

The pattern of "river waves" on the flower belt is more obvious, showing two white horizontal bands, the bands are composed of some tiny stars, and the pattern is faintly visible. According to the Miao, it means that the Yellow River and the Yangtze River are flowing in the same direction, and the Miao women call it "OuDuoMinWu". On the north bank are some smaller earthen slopes, which the women call "Xiu Gao Blade". South of the two big rivers, is a flower and tree like, but also like a person in a boat and other shapes composed of vertical flower clusters symbolizing the rowing pattern, the women said it represents "Dongting Lake". These patterns appear again at the foot of the water wave pattern. In Hmong, it is called "Aung Woo Nai Ben", and in Chinese, it means "the mother's flower that passes through the big water and big waves". South bank has a path and a row of pine trees. Symbolize the Miao people after a lot of hard work to come to the forest green and dense southwest mountains.

"River Waves"

The mother theme is also vividly shown in "Lanjuan Clothes"

. It is said that the origin of the "Lanjuan clothes" (a kind of women's clothing without collars) worn by Miao women in northeast Qianjiang is that a female Miao chief named "Lanjuan" led her compatriots to migrate south in order to remember the course of the south migration, so she came up with the idea of using colorful threads to remember the journey. In order to remember the journey of the southward migration, she thought of a way to remember things with colored threads. When she left the Yellow River, she sewed a yellow thread on her left sleeve; when she crossed the Yangtze River, she sewed a yellow thread on her right ...... >>

Historical Background of Miao Clothing (I) Miao Clothing Before Liberation

The Miao people historically did not have their own text, so it is understandable that they used clothing to record history and pass on their culture. In the primitive society, productivity was extremely low, our ancestors had spent the era of nakedness, when "there was no cremation", people ate "grass and trees", "birds and beasts meat", and their bodies were naked. "There was nothing to cover the nakedness of the body. As Zhuangzi said, "The ancient people did not know how to wear clothes", and they stored up firewood and grass in summer and used it to burn in winter to keep warm, so they were called "the people who knew how to live". From this, it can be deduced that this is also the case for other peoples. Later, with the development of society, human consciousness gradually increased, in order to obtain the sense of clothing to protect themselves from the cold, cover their shame, and decorate their clothes, they wrapped their bodies in the most primitive natural materials, such as leaves, grass blades, or animal skins, thus forming the most ancient and primitive clothing styles and clothing consciousness. The Book of Rites: "In the past, the first king did not have a palace, but lived in a cave in winter; he did not have a fire, but ate the fruits of grass and trees, the flesh of birds and beasts, drank their blood, and rogered their hair; he did not have hemp and silk, and was dressed in feathers and skins". Archaeologists also believe that "the earliest clothing is the primitive people to leaves, grass leaves wrapped around the body, or with stone tools to the animal skin slightly divided and then draped over the body or covered in ***." Dianshu" volume said China's ancient Miao "oar wood leaves for clothing", this also confirms. And to Shennong, Bo Yu (Huangdi courtier), Huangdi period has been replaced by the weaving of hemp, silk cloth and silk and the custom of draping clothes. (Rites of Passage): "After the saints have made ...... rule of its hemp and silk, thought cloth and silk"; (Zhuangzi thieves metatarsal): "Shennong's world ...... Tillage and food, weaving and clothing"; ("Huainanzi 汜论")："Be Yu's first made clothes also, armature linen rope sandals, hand through the finger hanging, its into the Juda net Luo, the later generations of the loom for the Shengfu to lead its use, and the people are able to cover the shape of the cold"; ("Zhouyi Series of Rhetoric"): "The Yellow Emperor, Yao and Shun put on their clothes and the world was governed". And this can be imagined, the creation and evolution of clothing is a tortuous and painful process.

(2) After the liberation to the 90's dress

This period of dress crisscross, both traditional and improved, a variety of categories, cross-mixed, experts and scholars about this period of the dress description up to six or seven, the author only selected two of the more typical.

The first description of the Miao history and culture, edited by Professor Li Tinggui, page 217 to 218: Yanzikou area in the north of Bijie, wearing embroidered flower railing stem lapel short clothes, white linen large collar lapel long shirt, no buckle, lapel wrapped around the waist, the back of the clothes, the shoulders are adorned with peach blossom brocade pieces, the collar is also picking the pattern, the local Han Chinese called "flower cummerbund". The local Han Chinese call it "flower cummerbund". It has no sleeves, no dickey and no buttons, and is worn open-chested. Inside the bodice, the right side of the embroidered floral railing is exposed. The skirt is long and pleated, with about half of the upper half being green, the remaining half being white, black, and gray, and the foot of the skirt being white. Front bunch of a pick flower skirt, head laced with wig disk on the top, hair outside the large locks of red woolen thread tightly bound, feet wrapped tightly in white cloth, the men wear Han Chinese dress.

The second description can be found in Wu Shizhong and other editors of the "Chinese Miao Clothing Atlas", page 38: the young girl ò bun on the top of the head, with a red head rope to pull the head of a circle of tightly, wrapped in a green cloth bandana, the end of the bandana upward. She wears a long unbuttoned coat with two sleeves decorated with colorful cloth and embroidery patterns. The jacket is decorated with a floral shawl with wax paintings, a batik silk embroidered long girdle with floral motifs embroidered on the edge of the girdle, several overlapping stripes, revealing the girdle pattern, a white linen belt, a white binding, and a right-over-oblique garment with a flap. The sleeves are decorated with picks and embroidered lace. Men's Hanbok dress up.

(C) 2000 years after the dress

According to the author on-site investigation: women's hair on the top of the head, no buns, outside the pick flowers with wrapped ornaments, the outer edge of the pendant bead strings and color line comb, the back of the head with aluminum strips of flower cloth beads and other bead strings made of the two horns like a rabbit's ears upward cocking the back of the brain under the brim of the hat sewn on a piece of green embroidery flower pads covered in the back, straight to the neck. The upper garment is low-necked and right-over-oblong, and it is a short coat with a large lapel with embroidered flowers, with a semi-circular embroidered piece of mussel decoration around the shoulders and tassels around the periphery, and the sleeves and the body of the coat are all decorated with picks or embroidery with colorful patterns such as peach blossom shapes and prismatic shapes. The lower part of the dress is a white pleated skirt with batik, knee-length, and from the head of the skirt to the foot of the skirt, the skirt is decorated with batik and brocade, forming a number of flower-embroidered segments. In front, there is a floral girdle of the same length as the skirt, and at each end, there are floral ribbons, which are tied around the waist and behind the back. The ends of the ribbons are decorated with tassels. One kind of leg binding is a hundred hemp cloth wrapped legs, a kind of rectangular pick flower scarf, when wrapped with the pattern exposed, there are also pick flower cloth made into a leg wrapping style. The sponge inside is put on the legs with snap or zipper. The feet wear modern leather shoes. Most of the fabrics used in the costumes are the best fabrics available in the market or the finest silk fabrics. Men's clothing is mainly modern Hanbok, but in order to show the national style and promote ...... >>

Miao Clothing Pictures