What are the customs of the Yi people? What are the characteristics of the costumes of the Yi people?

The Yi people are a smart, intelligent people, they use dexterous hands to dress up their own, coupled with the Yi tribe has many branches, the dress of each place are famous for their characteristics. As a result, among all ethnic groups in China, the Yi dress is very colorful.　In the Xiaoliangshan area by the Jinsha River, the Yi men and women dress in a simple and ancient style. Men generally leave a piece of hair three inches square on the top of the forehead, which the Yi people call "Zi Er", and regard it as the God of Heaven who can master the fate of good and bad luck. It is sacrosanct, no one may not touch, otherwise, it is the greatest insult to him, and will be disaster. Thus, the Han Chinese honored as "heavenly Bodhisattva". They also use three or four meters long black cloth wrapped around the head, and will be rolled into a long spine at the end of the head of the thick and thin thumbs, the Yi language called "sub post". Because it is high in front of the left side of the forehead, looks handsome, the Han Chinese called "hero bun". Men also wear a string of red and yellow ear beads on the left ear, beads and then decorated with red silk thread. They generally wear a black narrow-sleeved, lace-encrusted right-over-right short cloth coat, underneath a wide pleated, rather like a skirt pants, outside and then draped in a lower end of the fringe decorated with a long tassel piqi. The Yi called the felt "Chalwa", with black wool woven. It has many uses: wind and sand, sunny days, rainy days to avoid water, night with it a body can be wrapped as a bedding, so people's hearts are ready, indispensable throughout the year.　　Yi women's clothing in the Liangshan Mountains, quite elegant. Take young and middle-aged women for example. They cover their heads with an embroidered square cloth handkerchief and fold the front end of the handkerchief into a tile, covering their foreheads and then wrapping their hair with wool and hair braids to hold it down. Both ears are generally wearing silver earrings, earrings, collar decorated with a silver row of flowers. They wear embroidered right-breasted tops that are wide and short, reaching only to the abdomen. The lower body is black, yellow, blue, white colors of cloth around the patchwork into a pleated skirt, skirt length and the ground, long and graceful, walking is swaying around, graceful me. When they go out, they often wear a black to "Chalwa".　　The costumes of Yi men in other areas of Chuxiong are different from those of Liangshan Yi people. They generally use black cloth to wrap their heads, but do not keep a "heavenly bodhisattva", do not tie a "hero's bun", and do not wear ear beads in their ears. They usually wear blue or black lapel narrow-sleeved blouse, clothing Yamen and abdomen, lapel on the two rows of cloth buttons, chic and interesting. Some of them are also decorated with flowers along the right pocket. The pants are fat and short to facilitate work in the mountains and fields. Their festival dress is colorful. For example, during the Torch Festival, many young men wear white hats, hats decorated with red and green pom-poms on the brim, the top of the hat inserted into the beautiful color of the pheasant tail. It is said that this is their concept of animal worship in the headdress remains.　　The most beautiful of all are the costumes of the girls and young women. Although they do not wear colorful skirts and wear blue cloth pants, but their right obeisance to the top, mostly embroidered with a variety of flowers, clouds or geometric patterns, the waistband is also set with a beautiful lace roll. They pay special attention to their headdress. Some village women wear hats, or shaped like tasseled flowers, or shaped like a brocade chicken, and wear a fish-shaped hat, cocked hat, can be called "blossom".