What national costume is this?

Miao nationality, an international nationality originating from China, mainly lives in China, South China and Southeast Asia. In China, there are about 9,426,007 Miao people (20 10), which is the fourth largest ethnic group in China. ? Distribution Miao nationality originated in China, about 80% of the Miao population lives in the southern province of China, and there are also a considerable number of Miao people in Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Myanmar in Southeast Asia. 1975 After the founding of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, thousands of Miao people became refugees, and some of them moved to the United States and France.

The origin of Miao nationality is related to the clan or tribe called "Nan Man" who lived in the Yellow River valley to the Yangtze River valley and south of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River more than 4,000 years ago. Some people think that Chiyou in the ancient legend era is the ancestor revered by the Miao people today, which is related to the Miao people. Some people think that the ancient three seedlings have something to do with Miao. Some people think that today's "Miao" can be traced back to the ancient "fast" people. In addition, there are three theories, namely, Xiang Dou theory, Yelang theory, Ba County Nanjun theory, Pan theory and Wu Lingren theory.

In recent years, it has been suggested that Chiyou in the legendary era, Sanmiao in the Tang Dynasty, Kuai [Meng] in the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, Qianzhongman or Wuling Man in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods and the Qin and Han Dynasties all include Miao ancestors, which are different names for Miao ancestors in different times in history.

In short, according to historical records and legends, Miao ancestors lived in the Qingjiang River Basin in Hubei and Dongting Lake in Hunan during the Yin and Zhou Dynasties. Around the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were activities of Miao ancestors in Bashu, Yelang and Jingzhou. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, most Miao ancestors settled in Wuling County, Zhang Ke County, Yueyi County, Baxian County, Nanjun County and other areas, and a few continued to migrate to Duliujiang River Basin in southeastern Guizhou. Later, due to war, famine, epidemic diseases, frequent births, poor farmland and other reasons, they continued to migrate.

There are more than 200 kinds of Miao costumes in Guizhou and Hunan, which are the most diverse and well-preserved areas in China and even the world, and are 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 Miao people to use all kinds of contrasting colors, and strive to pursue the rich and heavy feeling 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, which is why Miao costumes are called "epic to wear on the body".