Category: Chinese clothing

Close to the long-term co-residence complex at the Tibetan the Monba clothing and customs and Tibetan.

The Monba door corner areas, both men and women like to wear red Pulu (a wool woven into robes), wearing a brown top orange side, left front of the the gap cap or black plow felt hat, wore leather soft bottom tube boots. In addition to the above attire, but also women in gowns plus white cylindrical apron, back Phi calfskin or goatskin. Phi cowhide or sheepskin there is a certain degree of stress, different ages women draped sheepskin. The girls, generally draped with a the sheep tail and four-legged sheep, calf leather or goatskin adult Phi. The Monba women good at spinning wool, weaving Lu Pu belt, like to wear bracelets, rings, beads and earrings and other decorative objects. The Mutuo the Monba, subtropical, life in this region Monba men and women like to wear clothes made ​​of cotton and linen, the length of two men and women usually wear a T-shirt. Women love to wear long floral skirt, wearing earrings and rings, braids disk at the top of the head, and red, yellow, green and other colored line decoration. Man with long hair, wearing earrings, the waist often linked to a machete.

Manchu clothing has a distinct personality characteristics, their past year wore robes, dressing gowns, the most characteristic is the cheongsam. The Manchu Eight Banners Nurhachu, created military and political unity of the Eight Banners system comes Manchu, also known as Bannerman, it is cheongsam known.

The flag head “,” flag shoes “and” cheongsam “the Manchu women dress attire. “Flag head”, also known as the “Tin child”, Manchu women’s traditional headdress. Like a fan, made of satin, brocade, yarn material, worn in a bun on top of. Above with silk flowers or insert decorated with flowers, with jewelry commonly used in weddings, festivals and other solemn occasions. Manchu women embroidered flag shoes “also called” inch sub, its unique style, about the soles of the feet part of the sole is equipped with three-inch high wooden bottom, two wide, thin in the middle, commonly known as the “horseshoe bottom, wider at the top trapezoid, also known as “saucers”, wear the shoes, graceful woman walking. “Cheongsam” is the typical clothing of Manchu woman. Manchu women cheongsam initial long vest-shaped hem more lenient after evolved into a wide waist straight, as long as the foot, do not waist belt, collar, cuffs fully clothed edge of lace embroidered with colorful patterns, highlights the female lines of the United States, it is very decent and beautiful and elegant. The cheongsam is divided into leather, cotton, single, folder, wearing in different seasons. The waistcoat is an important part of the Manchu costumes, the production of fine, not only bordered colored lace and embroidered with floral patterns. In the 1940s, new clothing at home and abroad, the wide sleeves women cheongsam became narrow, straight fitted to the waist, hips slightly wider, lower hem and ankle, and gradually evolved into today pay attention to color decoration and set the United States and the modern cheongsam style. This dignified and elegant, full of oriental charm cheongsam has become the representative of the Chinese nation clothing.

The Manchu past year wore and robes, Manchu men wear Arrow Xiupao the Jurchen there. To the early Qing Dynasty, Manchu clothing features: no collar, hoof, left front, four slits, waist. The hoof is in Zhaixiu mouth plus a semi-circular sleeve head, the shape of a horseshoe, also known as “Mati Xiu. Mati Xiu weekdays York, hunting, fighting to lay down covering the back of the hand, keep warm in winter. Four slits gown slit to the knee hem around. Left front and waist, tight warm. Manchu into the Central Plains by Han hoof into a horn sleeve collar sleeve dress, Manchu clothing, four slits evolved around the slit. Mandarin jacket is a jacket wear robes outside Length to the umbilicus, the sleeve only cover elbow, mainly for ease of riding, so called “mandarin jacket. Can be divided into the lute the lapel, dajin breasted three styles.

The Manchu seen as a blessing to deep purple-red color, doubly pet. Manchu clothing, men’s robe is blue, gray or blue, women ‘s, mostly white. Manchu people advocating white, often used as trim ornaments. Manchu women good at embroidery, dress skirts, shoes, top, purse and pillow wherever you see the dragon and phoenix, cranes, deer, flowers and other auspicious patterns.

Manchu men half from the top of the head after leaving hair bundle braid hanging on the back of the head. As for the Manchu woman’s hair style change. An early age, learning riding and shooting, hair style boy, and shaved off the hair around, only left posterior hair woven into braided plate at the back of the head. Wait until adulthood to be married period started growing hair, more than a to Shucheng Zhuaji or single braid. Married woman in the head bun, wearing earrings. General working women, only hair York to the top of the heart bun, this plate method spread so far, in the northeast of the rural areas can still be seen.

Li costumes are generally made ​​from woven from dyed homespun, cotton advanced technology of Li, Li Women specializes in textile, they use all kinds of textile, weaving a colorful, novel designs, delicate texture of the fabric, and was column court tribute.

Is located in the Hainan Li, due to the long summer and no winter clothing is not strictly seasonal. Men generally wear breasted collarless jacket and trousers, women wear cardigan round neck consistent head coat, skirts. The clothing also vary by region there are some differences. Li women’s clothing patterns in the core of the human pattern and ancestral pattern, and the pattern composed of worship around the flowers, on both sides of the altar, this pattern is a symbol of the worship of ancestors. In addition, they will also be a variety of geometry, graphic, dragon, deer, doves, frogs, snakes, vine fruit, such as hundreds of species of animals and plants pattern in the abstract and then clothing, formed a unique aesthetic sense of the Li people and aesthetic taste.

The festival costumes, Li girls head plug silver hairpin, neck wear silver chain, silver necklace, chest hanging beads bell, wearing a silver ring, singing and dancing.

Lahu originated from Gansu and Qinghai provinces in the vicinity of the ancient Qiang people. Early led a nomadic life, after migration to settle in the south of the Lancang River. Therefore, Lahu clothing reflects both the early nomadic culture of the nation, and also reflects the modern style of farming.

The Lahu advocating black, black for the United States, and therefore most of the clothing in black cloth substrate, laden with colored lines and colored cloth lace pattern embedded on a white silver bubble, the colors are deep and contrasting, fully to showcase the Lahu people’s aesthetic taste, giving the joy of beauty.

Lahu men and women dress different from region to region, showing some of the differences. Women’s clothing are of two types: one is the right lapel black cloth gown, side slits Qi waist embedded with silver bubble skirts or silver, the edge of the lapel, cuffs and the vent set with lace geometry, etc., or colored cloth block trim under the trousers. This costume retains the characteristics of the Northern Peoples’ robes; another small cardigan, round neck, cuffs waist jacket, under the skirts, white underwear exposed in skirts above, meaning magpie blooming, sets of embroidery pattern of colored leg warmers. The men wear round neck cardigan jacket, inclined to fight the wide crotch pants trousers, young men often wear jacket with a black-faced white gown. Lancang County, Lahu men also fond of wearing a blue-black cloth with six to eight equilateral triangle fight the system, the bottom insert a wide blue cloth edge, the top decorated with a pinch of color ear hat.

Festivals or costumes for both men and women hi destroyed rectangular backpack, bag decorated with shells and colored pompon, this is not only an important part of the Lahu clothing, and Lahu arts and crafts symbol.

Jingpo wild, uninhibited style of dress. Jingpo men wearing black round neck breasted jacket, the next dressed in a short, wide black trousers, the package black cloth or white cloth turban, headscarf as a decoration on both sides of the small colored pompon. Jingpo woman wearing a black breasted jacket or left front, under the system of black and red and white skirt with black cloth wrapped around the legs, festive costumes, women’s tops are inlaid with a lot of large silver bubble collar worn on six , seven silver necklace and a bunch of rings silver chain ear wearing a long silver earrings, wore thick silver bracelet engraved with the pattern as a decoration.

The Jingpo the earliest ancestors living in the southern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Tang Dynasty “look for pass quite a. Due to low levels of productivity, the Jingpo people dress shabby, and with safari Features. Man wearing a black or white jacket, wearing black pants large short to the tibia, destroyed the waist long knife, hatchback printed cloth bag. Woman dressed in a black jacket, under a maroon from woven wool flower skirts, leggings, wear black or red on rattan bamboo waist hoop and leg cuffs. The mountain Authoritative male wearing Mangpao, women wear satin silk clothing, small flower skirt, wrapped flowers Leggings. Both men and women barefoot.

After the founding of New China, the Jingpo people down to the dam area of ​​the Dai people live together, living conditions improved immediately. In addition to the part of the elderly also wear a dajin T-shirt and baggy pants, the man have largely to wear breasted clothing and uniforms pants; when they go out, shoulders Xiegua the long knives, guns and woolen flower bag. Woman wearing black to round neck dajin breasted black silk jacket, do not grow to waist, around the collar and chest at the silver-encrusted bubble silver chain to wear long light-colored T-shirt to the waist; next around the right side of the opening and closing red wool cotton interwoven with geometric motifs and skirts, waist band, Dai Wai rattan, bamboo waist hoop. Neck hung a silver necklace and a silver necklace, leg wrapped in red, black wool and white woven Leggings, destroyed, red, black and decorated with many silver bubble silver chain woven bag, the first package of red wool Toupa, walking or dancing, silver bubble will be sparkling silver chain clattering.

Whenever the beautiful stretch Hoche folk “Ussuri Barcarolle” sounds, people will think of living in the Northeast China Sanjiang Basin from hunting and fishing Hezhe. The Hezhe in northern China’s only national fishing to hunting and fishing the Hezhe clothing marked with a special mark, they are the only ethnic skin can be used sewing clothes, Hoche fish leather is a tanning good skin in accordance with the lines of color and fish scales, skin lines, fish bone needle threading patchwork made of delicate black wave pattern or fish-shaped pattern chic, simple and elegant, and Nanai called “Oooty library. The characteristics of this skin underwear is lightweight, warm, durable and resistant to wear and tear, and impervious to wear, suitable for fishing and weekdays labor.

Due to the impact of the Manchu clothing, the Hezhe women fish leather blouse design approximate cheongsam long lapel knees, waist, hem width fertilizer sector, fat and short sleeve, only the collar nest. Work stress, still lapel mouth, the cuffs, supporting collar, chest and back, embroidered on moire and a variety of patterns. Some still in the lower edge of the clothes are sewn on the shells. Men’s clothes, cuffs, clothing edge multi-inlaid two edges, dyed or parquet the moire, animal ornamentation.

Skin Taoku men and women two the Hoche men fish leather pants, Nanai called “g clothing”, the upper end of the pants Qi mouth, along the yellowed lace trousers; women’s the fish leather pants, Nanai called “Ga-wing”, the top is beveled, trousers embroidered with a variety of patterns.

The Hezhe shoes is also derived from place to place, Hezhen wearing half Tall leather the fish boots, skin Wu La, Nanai said temperature collapse. Mostly made with a the Hucho dog skin, Wu La avatar face, Yao three parts, than the actual length and width of the foot about twice as skin, folded around about 8,9 cm high, Chouzhe formed Wu La body, the first half of the face is stitched together in a semicircle, shoes mouth and then thin skin sewn on 30cm high made of Yao, then put on a thong do with. These boots with moisture, do not hang cream and non-slip, winter wear, inside put roe skin or mat ula grass, both lightweight and warm.

The Hezhe people past very like to wear this kind of fish leather, with the development of the times, Hezhe the gradual introduction of woolen, silk, velvet, cotton fabrics such as clothing, fish leather remain as a national crafts heritage, it has become Chinese Ethnic Costume wonderful work.

“Huang Qing Tribute map set out Juanba:” men and women clothes all deerskin, skin whom. The early years of fishing and hunting is a the Hezhen the main source of food and clothing. They feed on fish, bushmeat, therefore, the Hezhe clothing in addition to fish leather, mostly made of roe deer leather and deerskin. For Hoche live and roe deer, roe deer clothing, especially in winter, ice and snow Hezhen generally wear roe deer fur coat, known as roe deer skin, roe deer skin sewn. General roe deer leather sewing Length knees, and both dajin and partial lapel. Roe skin coat winter wear winter hunt roe deer skin, because of the roe deer fluff, skin thickness, durable cold. Other seasons can wear autumn skin, summer wear light skins. Roe skin can be done roe deer leather pants, mattress, hats and hand-bored child, winter wear. Hezhe summer Dai Hua fur hat, hat is made with local produce birch bark, such as Nanai called “Bo”, shaped like hats, top canopies, shading rain, people often engraved on the brim pattern or image of the animal, the summer the Hezhe very popular summer hat. In addition of the Hezhe women there Dai Er Zhuizai, bracelets, rings and other customs, the early mostly wooden, later developed into the copper, silver, and wealthiest women mostly gold. Hair and decorative Hezhe girl comb a braid, a married woman comb two braids, older wearing earrings, wearing ear clamp young and like to wear a bracelet.

Hoche clothing pattern art is also very well developed, not only absorbed the essence of the art of the Han pattern and innovation, so that it reflects both the national production, life characteristics, but also highly of the national characteristics of the Chinese nation embroidery, pattern art treasure important part. They are often in the skin, skins made hat, clothes, shawls, take the waist, legs, etc., embroidered with colored thread, then fight of moire, flowers, butterflies and geometric patterns. Especially daily necessities Caixiu such as “the rooster title flower”, “basket of flowers and lotus root pattern, composition novel, is particularly exciting.

Hani clothing is both the ethnic characteristics, but also has a high technology aesthetic value. Yunnan Hani clothing prime quaint, the Hani people planting hemp, cotton, indigo grass, specializes in advocating black, indigo dyeing, the Kazakh nation do with the own dyeing Navy homespun clothes. Hani different, clothing for children, young adults, elderly folk clothing three changes “saying. The previous six-year-old baby and children clothes basically no gender distinction, boys and girls are wearing from woven cloth round cap crowns pig teeth, seashells, tiger leopard claw, pangolin scales, shells and other objects, The boys usually wear black, no jewelry, girls’ clothes with some silver bubble, the color ear ornaments. Increase with age, after the age of 15, men and women have to change clothes design, will also increase the body ornaments, the men switched to black cloth scarf wrapped around the head, the woman to wear the studded silver medal bra cloth, Hani men and women dress this gorgeous accessories has been extended to marriage, birth parents, they would gradually become less bright ornaments. To 45 years after the man’s silver chain, silver bubble, removed from the clothes, ready to future generations, cylinder woman to remove the cap, hat, pectoral no longer wear, wearing a plain black blue skirt to make themselves appear to be simple and elegant, dignified.

Around the clothing styles vary, but in general, the characteristics of Hani’s clothing: men wear breasted jacket and trousers with a blue cloth or white cloth header; woman wearing right lapel collarless coat, trousers, short skirts, boots or wrinkled skirt, the majority of women wrapped leggings, dress more embroidery patterns.
Hani Men’s Clothing

Hani adult men wear loose collarless left front jacket, Sleeve and wrist and narrow, with a chic cloth button and the luminous silver coins for the buckle, inlaid colored lace clothes. Beneath the wide waist pants pants, belt sewn into a long-shaped bag, the bag was a duckbill-shaped, with red and green silk thread lock side, the back of the belt tied with a string of silver chain tied with silver coins. The old man, build a handful of hair braiding to stay in the top of the head of the customs, are now often the black cloth or white Buguo of head. Xishuangbanna man wearing a the right lapel T-shirt, along dajin inserts two lines of silver pieces for decoration. Festival, festive period, the young man accompanied by a white underwear under the cyan or blue jacket, cuffs, collar and side placed at evenly exposed a white border.
Hani Women’s Clothing

Hani women’s clothing colors, styles and patterns, can be described as colorful, and the living area there are significant differences, in general, women’s clothing exquisite workmanship, reflects the hard work and wisdom of the Hani women.

Mojiang, Yuanjiang area women, tops plus a shawl, and some wear long skirts or wrinkled dress, some wearing knee-length shorts, leggings, embroidered belt and apron. Xishuangbanna and the Lancang River in the vicinity of women wear short skirts, playing Leggings, chest hanging clusters of silver, wearing a round hat set with a small silver bubble, also has a long skirts and ruffle skirt.

More features regional and branch of women’s clothing, such as: the south bank of the Red River Sheep Street, the breakwaters along Hani (leaves car lineage). Their tops collectively referred to as the “turtle skirts, divided into three layers, namely, jackets, shirts and underwear. The coat is known as the “bird Lang, is swinging for the Indigo breasted jacket, collarless round mouth, Sleeve and elbow width on both sides of the cardigan pinned a number of sophisticated decor breasted. “Bird Long” dip into the Indigo, coated with a light layer of leather glue to its micro Pan pink, expressed craft high strength. Shirt called “bird bar”, no collar, pointed mouth, hem round tortoise-like, about two lapel cut slightly wider, ride in front, and fine cotton thread the left lapel system in the right armpit, cross into scissors mouth like, underwear called “bird Pa actual personal breasted coat, no buckle, no collar, round mouth, in round mouth the right front trimmed with a string of silver chain, with the Department of the needle cylinder and port string tube. Car leaves women more than clothing pride in the “bird Pa is placed under the nail several Road, cyan and white false edges, which means that more than clothing. The girl’s left chest cover tightly, right chest is half-bare. It leaves car girls youth fitness. During the festival, girls waist tight beam width if the palm of a five-color “Paa” It not only makes the girl body curve is very beautiful, and showed the sort of women was very hot British Gas. Them, wearing tight shorts wearing a steeple the triangle Toupa – and “Pa often.

Hani is a national prevalence of silver ornaments, buttons, earrings, necklaces and bracelets, or a variety of pectoral, are silver. Dance, body silver will be issued the rhythm crisp sound “Ding Ling, skirts, ring shoulder, cuffs, trouser legs, apron, belts and other clothing, multi-the mosaic color lace and embroidery patterns.

The Dulong clothing is very simple charm of both a return to the mountains, but also has a modern urban fashion charm, free and easy, and elegant the Dulong clothing, popular high praise of Chinese and foreign apparel researchers.

The Dulong been called the “Qiu,” song “,” Los “,” Qu Luo. After the liberation in accordance with the aspirations of the nation, name the Dulong.

Dulong people living in the mountains or deep valleys and industrious, brave, simple national character, rough, energetic temperament to create a unique traditional culture, the Dulong clothing has maintained a relatively primitive style. Dulong’s textile industry is relatively developed, woven excellent linen Xiantan texture, color harmonization, the nation’s major clothing material, Dulong blanket.

The Dulong men like to use one of blanket draped on the back, from left to right tuck, pull to the chest binding, wearing shorts, but cover the buttocks before and after the shares. The woman two parties long blanket from the shoulder oblique Phi knee, left and right around to the front. A tethered tight in the waist, before and after masking, another natural Phi off the casual ease. This the Dulong people deeply loved “Dulong blanket hardwearing, easy to use, day clothes, night When.

The distinctive the Dulong clothing accessories for both men and women like rattan dyed red as bracelets and waist ring ornaments. Men will go out wear machetes, crossbows and arrows package; the women head Phi flowers towel, neck, material beads.

De’ang apparel with a strong national colors, reflecting the unique aesthetic the De’ang People. From the overall view, De’ang clothing mainly discreet, deep black tone, but often with white, sandwiched between red, blue, green and other colors, avoid pure black gives the sense of oppression, but seem fresh, crisp , giving a sense of pleasure.

Both ends of the The De’ang man in blue a black dajin jacket and wide and short pants, wrapped in black, white cloth turban, De’ang also particularly fond of colored pompon as an ornament, and therefore our common man turban, the young man earrings Bag around will be decorated with small colored pompon, colorful, unique.
, The most characteristic the De’ang clothing should be De’ang of women’s clothing. Women’s attire, the different branches of each notable features. “Red Rue d’and flower De’ang” women shave their heads, after the two ends of the header vertical, wear big earrings, silver necklace, in blue, black breasted jacket, lapel edge inserts two red cloth, the hem edge red, green, and yellow pompons decoration. A large box silver buttons, skirt cover breast and legs. Women “red De’ang” skirt on the red lines. The women skirt “flower De’ang” woven with red, black, blue color, shapely width of the lines. Women “black De’ang” skirt black line mainly the middle of the red, white and fine lines. In addition, the black De’ang “women married accumulator hair, wrapped in black cloth Baotou. About the origins of the De’ang the three Tongqun suit, De’ang civil circulating such a legend: In ancient times, De’ang slaughter of cattle worship, three sisters help cattle, killing cattle struggling on the ground, oxtail contaminated blood thrown in on their skirts. Later, they will each according to the skirt on the position and color of the blood on the depth of weaving new skirts, from the spread so far. Legend, sisters eat beef, because they do not care the cow drops of blood fell on his chest, red skirt. So, chest of De’ang women are sewn with two red cloth, which is cow’s blood and clothes mark.

The women there De’ang wear waist hoop custom girl adult, must be worn at the waist of the skirt on the number of even dozens of waist hoop. De’ang that girls who wear waist hoop more, do more refined, more that she is smart and capable, ingenuity, adult women are wearing waist hoop and proud of it. Most of the waist hoop bamboo woven rattan, and some first half of the rattan bamboo, the second half of the spiral silver. This unique customs, the Tang Dynasty De’ang ancestors – the vast tribal “rattan bamboo wrapped around the waist decorated with custom continuation of. Deang young men and women during the love, the young man in order to win the love of the girl, but also often scheming, elaborate engraved with the flora and fauna of design patterns, Rattan and bamboo waist hoop to give to his beloved girl.

De angzu the tattoo customs, the De’ang general stabbed in the back of the hand, thigh and chest tiger, deer, black, flowers and other plants and animals pattern or Daiwen Mantras.

The vast grasslands raising the passionate Mongolian people, the steppe nomadic life, a long national history and rich national culture of Mongolian dress unique and brilliant Chinese minority costumes.

An integral part of the Mongolian costumes include robes, jewelry, belts and boots sections.

Robes Mongolian men, women and children throughout the year like wearing clothing, this robe wide, sleeve length, collar, buttons on the right side. The ingenuity of the Mongolian woman also in the gown’s neckline, cuffs and embroidered on the edge of the beautiful lace as embellishment. With the warm and cold seasons change, the Mongolian summer wear single robe, spring and autumn wear clip gowns, winter wear gown made of sheepskin Pipao, so horses grazing, can resist cold.

Mongolian robes, men’s female models still some differences. Male gowns are generally more lenient, filling the heroic the prairie man of unrestrained; color blue, mainly brown; the robe tight-fitting, filling out the slim figure of the woman, rich color than the male robe, mostly red, pink , green, purple, sky blue, show Prairie Women’s enthusiasm for fitness, but also spared no effort to reflect the beautiful side. The Mongolian robe geographically there are some differences on the design.

The belt must wear Mongolian robe is an important part of Mongolian costumes, also fastidious material, usually with long made of three to five meters of silk or cotton. In order to facilitate Horse riding, Mongolian men wear a belt, most of gown will be put up, so that both were capable, riding and shooting without strings attached; woman wear a belt, intends to gown to the drop-down, showing slender and slim figure.

Mongolian favorite boots can be described as the most distinctive part of Mongolian costumes. Herders leave their boots all year round, the Mongolian boots fine workmanship, boots help, etc. have wonderful patterns. Mongolian boots can be divided into two kinds of riding boots and Mongolian boots, riding boots are made of leather, usually black, popular among young people of all ages; Mongolian boots, also known as Hong cow boots, Xue Jian slightly upturned, boots is usually decorated with patterns, body boots more lenient. Mongolian boots are not only beautiful, but also very practical. As we all know, the Mongolian people on horseback, riding, Mongolian boots, ankle, lost horse off the stirrup, therefore, it was not until the great national integration, pastoral men, women and children still love wearing boots Mongolia.

Peigua jewelry, wearing a hat is the habit of the Mongolian people. Mongolian women in the Chinese New Year, a festive banquet or visit family visit friends often wear jewelry made of these decorations, a wide range of materials are not the same, precious jewelry multi-agate, pearls, precious stones and gold and silver, which Mongolian dress also makes more Furama expensive. Mongolian women wear ornaments, in addition to the headdress, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings, there are kinds of Peigua in the the gown upper right lapel buttons, ornaments, accessories sometimes as a token of friendship and love to give to a friend or lovers, Mongolian, called “Haab Interlagos. Mongolian customs, married women to comb two long braids and two braided sleeve braids mounted on the inside with black cloth hanging in the chest, the braided sleeve embroidered patterns or decorated with silver medallion jewelry, Mongolian called “Ha Doyle. Mongolia men’s accessories is simple compared to the women’s accessories, many Mongolian men have left the top of the head long braids, bringing knife and Huolian.