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Pleated skirt is a major feature of which minority dress in China?

Miao costumes are the national costumes with the richest colors, the most types and the longest span in China, with the most gorgeous embroidery and silver ornaments, and are a wonderful flower of our national culture.

Pleated skirts are beautifully made, with fine folds and a large number, some of which can reach more than a thousand folds. The skirt is vertical and elastic, embroidered with colorful patterns.

Pleated skirt, also called "pleated skirt", "pleated skirt", "dense skirt" or "broken skirt" in modern times, refers to a skirt with many fine and vertical folds. The distance between each hem of this skirt is about 2 cm-4 cm, ranging from hundreds to thousands of pleats. It is beautiful and beautiful, but it is more complicated to make.

In the Ming dynasty, skirts were often made of green faces, with more than twenty pleats and colorful peach blossoms under their bellies. Modern skirts have many and dense folds. Skirts are long and short, long and short to the knees. Many countries in the world also have pleated skirts for female students to wear school uniforms.

This kind of skirt has a history of 1700 years in China. According to "Miscellanies of Xijing", "The Western Han Dynasty proclaimed itself emperor and Zhao was the queen. Once, wearing a purple dress, she swam with the emperor in Taiye Pool. Just as she was dancing in the drum music, a strong wind suddenly blew her like a swallow. Emperor Cheng hurriedly ordered his attendants to hold her skirt and was saved, but the skirt was torn into many wrinkles. Emperor Han Chengdi saw at a glance that a pleated skirt is more beautiful than when it is not pleated. Therefore, the skirts worn by ladies-in-waiting in the future like to be folded into many folds and creases, which are called "fairy skirts".