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What's the difference between Miao costumes and Li costumes?

Li people usually wear jackets and trousers with double-breasted collars. They wear scarves and feathers. Women wear black round neck dresses with many decorations. The neckline is connected with white and green beads to form three groups of edges, the cuffs and hem are decorated with patterns, and the front and back are connected with beads to form colorful patterns. Wear tight miniskirts. Some of them wear black and blue flat-necked coats with white patterns embroidered on the cuffs, horizontal patterns on the backs and colorful floral tube skirts. The bottom of the skirt is placed in front. When wearing clothes, I wear a silver hairpin, a silver chain and a silver collar around my neck, beads on my chest and a silver ring on my hand. Wearing a black scarf.

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. Men's jackets are generally divided into three categories: left-breasted jackets, double-breasted jackets and left-breasted gowns, of which double-breasted jackets are the most common. The bottoms are generally big-footed pants with wide legs. There are generally two kinds of women's casual tops: right-handed tops and t-neck cross tops on the chest, and various pleated pants and trousers on the bottom.