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Introduction of Miao costumes

If all the well-dressed Miao girls get together, it will definitely become a beautiful silver world. It is the nature of Miao girls to like to wear silver ornaments. They put them in a bun, about 2 0 cm high, and made beautiful silver crowns. There are six jagged silver wings inserted in front of the crown, most of which are the patterns of Ssangyong playing beads. In some areas, in addition to silver pieces, silver horns with a height of about 1 m are inserted into the silver crown, and the tips of the horns float in color, which makes them more noble and rich. There is a silver ribbon at the lower edge of the silver crown, and a row of small silver pendants hang down. The silver collar worn around the neck has several layers, mostly made of silver pieces and small silver rings. Wearing a silver lock and a silver collar on his chest, wearing a silver cloak on his chest and back, and hanging many small silver bells. Earrings and bracelets are all made of silver. Only the two sleeves are embroidered with lux as the main tone, but the cuffs are also inlaid with a wide circle of silver ornaments. The costumes of Miao girls often weigh several kilograms, and some have been accumulated and passed down by generations. Known as "a fairy dressed in strange clothes and wrapped in white." The craftsmanship of Miao silver ornaments is gorgeous, exquisite and ingenious, which fully shows the wisdom and talent of Miao people. Miao girls' skirts are called pleated skirts, but in fact, there are more than five pleats on a skirt, and there are many layers, some as many as thirty or forty layers. These skirts, from weaving, dyeing, sewing to final drawing and embroidery, were all done by the girls themselves. Coupled with embroidered ribbons and flower chest pockets, it is really colorful and beautiful.

The brief introduction of Miao costumes is about 40 words, and the Miao language is called "Ou Qian". It is mainly composed of children's wear, casual wear and performance clothing. The dress is called "Ouqian Gagexi" in Miao language, which means "lifting the bottom coat", and "Ouqian Peach" is called "silver coat" in Miao language, with a pleated skirt under it and a waist at the front and back. Miao costumes are divided into children's wear, men's wear and women's wear. The color and decoration of Miao men's wear are monotonous, not as bright and rich as women's wear. Women's wear can be divided into casual wear and formal wear. Casual clothes are usually worn clothes, and the colors, patterns and decorations are not as bright as those worn at weddings during festivals. If silver ornaments are the representative symbols of Miao women, then costumes represent the unique works of art of Miao people. Ci Hai records: "Miao Xiu is as famous as Xiang embroidery, Su embroidery, Shu embroidery and Yue embroidery, representing the highest level in Miao Xiu." Miao embroidery and costumes, as the famous artist Liu Haisu praised, "Miao women's embroidery is ingenious, and Xiang embroidery and Su embroidery are even more difficult to avoid customs, which has great commercial development and prospects.

Characteristics of Miao Costume There are no fewer than 200 kinds of Miao costumes for Miao girls in Qiandongnan Prefecture, which is the most varied and best preserved area in China and even the world, and is called "Miao Costume Museum". On the whole, Miao costumes have maintained the traditional weaving, embroidery, picking and dyeing techniques in China. While using one main technique, they often use other techniques, either picking embroidery, dyeing embroidery or ribbon embroidery, thus making these costumes colorful and showing distinctive national artistic characteristics. From the content point of view, clothing patterns are mostly based on various life images in daily life, which plays an important role in expressing meaning, identifying nationalities, 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. Dress-up is a kind of costume used for holiday etiquette and wedding. It is complex and gorgeous, which reflects the artistic level of Miao costumes. Casual clothes, the style is quieter and simpler than formal clothes, with less materials and less labor, suitable for daily wear. Besides formal and casual clothes, Miao costumes are different in age and region.

This is also the reason why Miao costumes are encyclopedias worn on the body.

Miao girls like to wear pleated skirts. There are more than 500 pleats on a skirt, with many layers, some as many as thirty or forty layers. These skirts, from weaving, dyeing, sewing to final drawing and embroidery, were all done by the girls themselves. Coupled with embroidered ribbons and flower chest pockets, it is really colorful and beautiful.

When it comes to "clothing", we have to think of "decoration".

The headdress includes a silver horn, a silver fan, a silver hat, a silver handkerchief, a silver floating head row, a silver hairpin, a silver pin, a silver crown flower, a silver net chain, a silver comb, silver earrings and a silver children's hat.

If the well-dressed Miao girls get together, it will definitely become a beautiful silver world. It is the nature of Miao girls to like to wear silver ornaments. They put them in a bun on their heads, about 20 cm high, and made exquisite silver crowns. There are six jagged silver wings inserted in front of the crown, most of which are decorated with Miao silver ornaments, such as playing pearls with dragons, exploring flowers with butterflies, rising sun in Feng Dan, birds flying towards the phoenix and swimming in the water. In some areas, in addition to silver pieces, silver horns with a height of about 1 m are inserted into the silver crown, and the tips of the horns float in color, which makes them more noble and rich. There is a silver ribbon at the lower edge of the silver crown, and a row of small silver pendants hang down. The silver collar worn around the neck has several layers, mostly made of silver pieces and small silver rings. Wearing a silver lock and a silver collar on his chest, wearing a silver cloak on his chest and back, and hanging many small silver bells. Earrings and bracelets are all made of silver. Only the two sleeves are embroidered with lux as the main tone, but the cuffs are also inlaid with a wide circle of silver ornaments. The costumes of Miao girls often weigh several kilograms, and some have been accumulated and passed down by generations. Known as "a fairy dressed in strange clothes and wrapped in white." The craftsmanship of Miao silver ornaments is gorgeous, exquisite and ingenious, which fully shows the wisdom and talent of Miao people.

Brief introduction of Miao nationality, folk houses, food, costumes, festival features, etc. You are also in the sixth grade ... Do you need to write a composition? I wrote it. Let me help you!

Folk houses: Miao nationality has its own unique architectural style in the selection of building materials and construction due to its unique migration history. Miao people like wooden buildings, which are generally three-story buildings. The first floor is generally a semi-house to solve the problem of uneven slope, so it is generally used for stacking sundries or keeping livestock in captivity. The second floor is the main house, and the third floor is the granary. Someone specially set up a "beauty lean" on the third floor for young girls to watch and show their beauty, so as to establish a preliminary relationship with Miao's brother. Camus's whole village uses wood as building materials, which is praised by modern architects as the most ecological way of building. Wooden pole fence building not only solves the problem of less flat land in mountain buildings, but also solves the problems of farm debris stacking and livestock feeding. China and even the world's largest Miao village: Leishan Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village.

Food: In most areas, Miao people have three meals a day, and rice is the staple food. Fried Baba is the most common fried food. If you add some fresh meat and sauerkraut as stuffing, the taste will be more delicious. Most meat comes from livestock and poultry farming. Miao people in Sichuan and Yunnan all like to eat dog meat, and there is a saying that "Miao's dog is Yi's wine". In addition to animal oil, Miao people's edible oils are mostly tea oil and vegetable oil. Pepper is the main condiment, and in some areas there is even a saying that it is inseparable from pepper. There are many kinds of Miao vegetables. Common vegetables are beans, melons, greens and radishes. Most Miao people are good at making bean products. Miao people everywhere generally like to eat sauerkraut, and sour soup is a must for every family. Sour soup is rice soup or tofu water, fermented in a crock for 3-5 days, and then used to cook fish and vegetables. The food preservation of Miao people generally adopts pickling method, and vegetables, chickens, ducks and fish like to be pickled into sour taste. Almost every Miao family has a jar for curing food, which is collectively called a sour jar. Miao nationality has a long history of brewing, and has a set of techniques from koji making, fermentation, distillation, blending and cellar storage. Camellia oleifera is the most common daily drink. Miao people in Xiangxi also specially made a kind of scented tea. Sour soup is also a common drink. Typical foods mainly include: blood soup, Chili bone, Miaoxiang Guifeng soup, cotton vegetable cake, insect tea, scented tea, fish paste, sour soup fish and so on.

Clothing: There are more than 200 kinds of Miao costumes for Miao girls in Qiandongnan, which is the most varied and well-preserved area in China and even the world, and is called "Miao Costume Museum". On the whole, Miao costumes have maintained the traditional weaving, embroidery, picking and dyeing techniques in China. While using one main technique, they often use other techniques, either picking embroidery, dyeing embroidery or ribbon embroidery, thus making these costumes colorful and showing distinctive national artistic characteristics. From the content point of view, clothing patterns are mostly based on various life images in daily life, which plays an important role in expressing meaning, identifying nationalities, 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. Dress-up is a kind of costume used for holiday etiquette and wedding. It is complex and gorgeous, which reflects the artistic level of Miao costumes. Casual clothes, the style is quieter and simpler than formal clothes, with less materials and less labor, suitable for daily wear. Besides formal and casual clothes, Miao costumes are different in age and region.

This is also the reason why Miao costumes are encyclopedias worn on the body.

Miao girls like to wear pleated skirts. There are more than 500 pleats on a skirt, with many layers, some as many as thirty or forty layers. These skirts, from weaving, dyeing, sewing to final drawing and embroidery, were all done by the girls themselves. Coupled with embroidered ribbons and flower chest pockets, it is really colorful and beautiful.

When it comes to "clothing", we have to think of "decoration".

The headdress includes a silver horn, a silver fan, a silver hat, a silver handkerchief, a silver floating head row, a silver hairpin, a silver pin, a silver crown flower, a silver net chain, a silver comb, silver earrings and a silver children's hat.

If well-dressed Miao girls get together, it will surely become a beautiful ... >>

What are the characteristics of Miao costumes? In fact, one of the most important features of Miao costumes is silver ornaments, and the other is batik brocade. In fact, I went to Xiangxi before, which was introduced by the tour guide and was very presumptuous. It was already very systematic and comprehensive at that time. I suggest you have a chance to go there and you will fully understand it.

What are the costumes of Miao people? Why are they all plagiarism? In fact, one of the most important features of Miao costumes is silver ornaments, and the other is batik brocade. In fact, I went to Xiangxi before, which was introduced by the tour guide and was very presumptuous. It was already very systematic and comprehensive at that time. I suggest you have a chance to go there and you will fully understand it.

Miao costumes (overview and introduction) Miao costumes have diverse styles and rich colors. "Once"? There are five streams in the Biography of Nanman (five streams: there are five streams at the junction of Xiangxi and Guizhou, Sichuan and Hubei, so there are five streams in the territory), which records the Miao people's "good five-color clothes"; Du Fu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, also wrote a famous poem "The sky is clothed by five streams". There are more than 100 styles of Miao women's wear, which is the highest in China. Miao costume is a symbol of primitive Miao nationality, a stub of rules and history, a silent almanac, and a silent language and symbol.

Miao costumes have regional differences due to gender, age and marital status, but they have maintained a traditional style since ancient times. Miao women generally wear narrow sleeves, big collars, double-breasted tops and pleated skirts. The dress is either long to the feet, elegant and colorful, or short to the knees and graceful. Casual clothes are mostly wrapped in a handkerchief on the head, a blouse on the upper body, a pair of trousers on the lower body, embroidered edges, an embroidered waist and a little delicate silver ornaments as a foil. Miao pleated skirt with colorful patterns is decorated with embroidery, brocade, batik and cross stitch. The colors of costumes are mainly red, blue, yellow, white and black, which keeps the tradition of "three Miao" and "good five-color clothes" of Miao ancestors. Clothes are mainly raw materials produced in the place of residence, mostly cotton, hemp, wool and so on. , finely woven by family workshops. Miao men's costumes are relatively simple, with double-breasted tops or right-handed robes, wool felt woven with geometric patterns on their shoulders, blue baotou on their heads and leggings on their calves.

When we talk about the diversity of Miao costumes, we mainly refer to the holiday costumes or dresses of Miao women. Miao costumes can be divided into five types by region: Qiandongnan, Zhongnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan, Xiangxi and Hainan.

Qiandongnan Miao costumes: They are popular in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou 16 counties and cities and Duyun, Libo, Sandu, Xingren, Anshun, Rongshui and Sanjiang in Guangxi. This coat has a big collar and a double-breasted or right bust. Pleated skirts vary in length, wearing a variety of waist and leggings. The bun is also very different. There are about 30 styles of Miao costumes in Qiandongnan.

Miao costumes in central and southern Guizhou are mainly popular in Guiyang, Longli, Guiding, Huishui, Pingba, Anshun, Pingtang, Luodian, Qiubei, Wenshan, Mali and Longlin of Guangxi. It is characterized by embroidering clothes or batiks with black, white and blue threads. Double-breasted collar, pleated skirt, hair band or headscarf, bun. There are five styles of Miao costumes in central and southern Guizhou.

Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan Miao costumes: mainly distributed in southern Sichuan, western Guizhou, northwestern Guizhou and northeastern Yunnan, northwestern Guangxi, Zhaotong, Weixin, Chuxiong, Jinsha and other places. The clothing material is mainly linen, the clothing color is light, and batik technology is common. Clothes and hairstyles are varied.

Xiangxi Miao costumes: mainly in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Songtao, Sichuan Xiushan, Youyang, Hubei Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture and other places. There are colorful headscarves and variants, and there are also 8 kinds of costumes.

Hainan Miao costumes: Due to the influence of local Li costumes, Miao women wear a gown with a right knee, only a button, a collarless, batik skirt, mainly black and red, with few patterns, a scarf embroidered with patterns, and a pointed handkerchief embroidered with lace, which is very different from Miao costumes in other regions.

Miao people have no characters, and she takes costumes as the carrier, so Miao costumes not only have practical value, high aesthetic or ornamental value, profound cultural connotation, but also have a high level of production technology. The batik and embroidery art of Miao nationality represents the art of making Miao costumes. The batik technology of Miao nationality has a history of thousands of years. Generally, Miao batik is to draw various patterns on a whole piece of cloth before dyeing. Miao embroidery has various techniques and rich patterns. According to statistics, there are as many as 12 kinds of crafts in Miao Xiu, including Ping Xiu, embroidery, lock embroidery, pile embroidery, pasting, seed embroidery, stitch embroidery, braid embroidery, crepe embroidery, tin embroidery and ponytail embroidery. There are two main colors, one is red, the other is purple, and the bottom is basically black; The patterns are also extremely rich. There are all kinds of flowers, rice, fish, birds and dragons and phoenixes. Some of nature can be embroidered on clothes as patterns, and many embroidery patterns use legends and stories. Miao embroidery is mainly used for the decoration of headscarves, collars, lapels, sleeves, cuffs, shoulders, backs, pendants, belts, waists, skirts, leggings and shoes.

The pattern of Miao costumes is the national history book worn on the body: the colorful lines on the pleated skirt are rivers and mountains; The circular square pattern on the card on the back is the city once owned, with streets, walls and watchtowers; That scarf ... >>