What are the characteristics and styles of Yao costumes?

Yao costumes are characterized by exquisite patterns and bright colors. Yao costumes are made of bright blue homespun, and the openings of skirts, cuffs and other clothes of Yao costumes will be embroidered with exquisite patterns and patterns, which will make Yao costumes more distinctive and comfortable, and there are also differences between men and women.

The clothing styles of Yao nationality are diverse, and there are many branches of Yao nationality, and the clothing of each branch is not the same, so it is mainly different according to different regions. In the past, Yao people were called by different nationalities because of their different colors of clothes, styles of trousers and headdresses.

Yao women are good at embroidery, embroidering exquisite patterns on skirts, cuffs and trouser legs. Hair is braided around the top of the head, surrounded by colorful beads, and the neck of the skirt is embroidered with colorful patterns all the way to the chest. Men, on the other hand, like to tie their hair in a bun, wrap it in red cloth or green cloth, and wear a long-sleeved dress with no collar and double-breasted buttons, with a white cloth "vest" slung diagonally over it, and trousers with large underpants. When Yao men and women are fifteen or sixteen, they should change their flower hats into Baotou pa.

The beauty of Yao costumes is also reflected in flower picking and composition. The pattern of flower picking and the characteristics of clothing are a reflection of religion to some extent. Yao people in Xilin County, Guangxi Province have kept a kind of "master" (religious) costume for hundreds of years, embroidered with many gods, such as mountain gods, Raytheon and sun gods, which expressed the psychological characteristics of Yao people's various worship.