Extremely Characteristic Qiang Clothing Culture

In the Qiang area, Qiang people can be seen everywhere in their national costumes with beautiful patterns on their clothes, most of them are hand-embroidered, and these embroideries have a long history of the Qiang people. The Qiang people are an ancient people and their costumes are very unique. Now we will see the Qiang culture from their costumes.

The ancient Qiang costume is characterized by the "Felt", which is a much simpler process than the production of woolen cloth, and has a history of 3,000 years. Literature records, the two Han Ganqing Qiang people "women wearing large Chinese felt as a decoration", the Tang and Song dynasties, Qiang felt has been very popular. The New Book of Tang - Dangshang Biography said that "men and women wear fur and brown, and are covered with felt". In recent times, the Qiangs have basically inherited the system of robes.

The Qiang people pay attention to different occasions and wear different kinds of clothes for different occasions. Therefore, the Qiang costumes are mainly divided into the following categories:

1. Dance performance Qiang costumes;

2. Tourism reception Qiang costumes;

3. Original ecological performances and displays of Qiang costumes;

4. Governmental, enterprise and public utilities, catering and entertainment industry Qiang specialty professional work clothes;

5. Qiang clothing;

6, fashionable clothing with elements of Qiang art;

7, ethnic crafts and other seven categories of products.

Traditional Qiang People's Clothing:

Qiang Women's Headpalm

Unmarried girls wear a braid and coil their heads, and then wrap the embroidered headpalm. Married women wear buns and then wrap embroidered headscarves. The Qiang women also like to wrap the green or white headscarves. Young women often wrap the headscarves embroidered with various colors or use the tile-like green cloth to stack on top of their heads, and use the two braids of their hair as sideburns; generally, they wrap the four-square headscarves in winter, embroidered with various colors and patterns, and wrap the embroidered headscarves in spring and autumn.

The Qiang men wear green or white headscarves, homemade linen shirts, and sleeveless sheepskin coats to protect themselves from the cold and the rain.

Shoes of the Qiang:

The Qiang people usually wear grass shoes, cloth shoes or cowhide boots, and there are also "Yunyun shoes". There are also "Yunyun Shoes", which are embroidered with cloud patterns and ripples, with the tips of the shoes slightly curved. The Qiangs also wear leather shoes and cloth shoes wrapped with cow's and sheep's wool felt binding on the feet, which has the effect of keeping the legs warm and protecting the legs, and the young women also wrap the red band around the binding on the legs.

Qiang clothing:

The traditional Qiang clothing is a long shirt made of linen, a sheepskin kangshan, a headband, a girdle, and a leg band. Both men and women wear a sheepskin undershirt over their long shirts, commonly known as a "leather jacket", with the hair facing inward on sunny days and outward on rainy days to prevent rain. There is also an undershirt made of wool felt, slightly longer than the former. Men wear knee-length shirts, braided hair, and boots made of grass, cloth, or cowhide.

The Qiang belts:

The Qiang men and women wear belts made of hemp or wool. Men like to wear coral inlaid scythes and knives on their belts. Women wear embroidered aprons and belts, which are also embroidered with floral motifs.