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Characteristics and customs of the Hani ethnic group

This ethnic minority has different architectural features, free marriage customs, and a variety of clothing features.

Architectural features: the traditional architecture of the Hani ethnic group is a courtyard, with the main house being a wooden-framed building, a stone mattress foundation, an earth base for the walls, and a roof covered with thatched grass or shimmering flakes.

Marriage customs: Hani young men and women are free to socialize and talk about love before marriage. Marriage requires the consent of the parents of both sides, the two sides of love, please matchmakers, the female parents agreed, young men to participate in the production of women's home labor, drink engagement wine, choose the date of hire to marry.

Clothing: The Hani ethnic group has a wide variety of clothing, especially women's clothing is more abundant. Women's clothing upper body has a long coat, short coat, oblique lapel, lapel, collar, no collar, buckle, no buckle, long-sleeved, short-sleeved points, the lower body has a long pants, pants, shorts, long skirts, skirts, short skirts of the difference.