The characteristics of the Hui dress What are the characteristics of the Hui dress?

1. In the Hui costume, the headdress is the most typical and characteristic.

Such as Hui people from the past to the present, the traditional range of men's white caps, Desdar and women's head coverings is the widest, whether in the water towns of the south of the Yangtze River, or in the yellow and black land in the north, wherever the Hui people live in, the custom of headdresses is very obvious. This custom contrasts sharply with the dress customs of the Han Chinese.

2. The dress of the Hui people has multiple roles.

(1) To protect the body.

This is an objective and inevitable need for human production, life and survival. According to different seasons to choose different costumes, summer wear single, winter northern Hui people wear cotton and leather, leather shoes, etc., in the northeast and northwest of the Hui people in order to prevent the cold, but also wear cotton hats, leather hats or ear sets. Hui women in order to prevent wind and sand also wear head cover, take scarves and so on.

(2) the role of decoration.

The heart of all people love beauty, Hui people are no exception, which is the inherent requirements of human beings to beautify themselves. Such as men wearing shirts, sets of green shoulders, women point forehead, dyeing nails, embroidery on the clothes, all have decorative factors.

3, Hui dress pay attention to neat, beautiful, simple and comfortable, clean and hygienic, do not wear flashy clothes, especially men do not wear colorful clothes, not with a different crown; love of beauty, but do not think that strange, "light make-up and thick smear is always appropriate". In clothing, crown color to white, green, black. This feature has a certain connection with the origin and religion of the Hui.