Why do people in northern Shaanxi wear towels on their heads?

Because the climate in northern Shaanxi is relatively cold, people in northern Shaanxi always wear towels to keep warm.

Before the 1960s, the basic clothing of villagers in northern Shaanxi was a towel with a white sheep's belly, a smooth old sheepskin coat and trousers with a white jacket, which was wrapped in a red belly and a pair of shoes with a thousand layers of cloth soles.

Some people wear felt hats, leg wraps and felt boots. These are all because the climate in northern Shaanxi is relatively cold, so people should wear towels on their heads when they are engaged in farming and different livelihood activities.

Customs in northern Shaanxi:

The customs and culture in northern Shaanxi are the accumulation of people's long-term life in the process of social life in northern Shaanxi, and all kinds of customs and events are restricted by the historical conditions of the social environment at that time.

In the development sequence of the times, each generation is engaged in activities on the basis of social conditions created and accumulated by predecessors. The end of the activities of the previous generation is the starting point of this generation's activities, and at the same time, it transcends the social environment created by predecessors and various formed habits, bringing forth the new and endless.

Each generation of residents has joined the endless historical river with their own new innovations, making their living environment and cultural accumulation constantly mutate and update.

It is this historical process that truly records and reflects the spiritual outlook and concept of people's life in northern Shaanxi, shows the diversified characteristics of regional customs in northern Shaanxi, and makes the regional culture in northern Shaanxi rich and full of personality.