For thousands of years, industrious and wisdom of the Yi people to create a unique costume culture of the nation. Since Yi vast residence, and thus the shape and style of dress Yi also showing diversification, in hundreds of kinds of ethnic costumes on, he Chuxiong and most representative of Liangshan Yi costumes, they remained independent full traditional dress culture system .
Generally, Yi traditional clothing is woven from dyed from wool, linen, cotton as raw material. Both men and women the right cardigan jacket, tight, cuffs, collar, lapel edges are embroidered with colored lace. Bottoms men and women are different, men’s pants trousers in three different sizes, the largest up to 2 meters, the smallest only encase foot neck. Women’s Bottoms for “its long drag” pleated skirt, is composed of several different colors of fabric connected together, usually like to use red, yellow, black, green, orange, green, blue and other contrasting colors, stitching Paste lace, colorful, very beautiful. Men and women when they go out, they like to put on something called “rub Salvador” in Phi felt, “rub Alba” shaped like a cape, long or knee-length, bottom decorated with long spike, woven wool, color is black or wool character.
Tradition, Yi adult man with long hair proud. Yi child at birth month when the hair will repair it, and then put the hair accumulating up, usually grow to 1.5 m or 1.7 m, and then heap bun on top of the head, and then wrapped around several feet long header Pa, wrapped around the front wrapped into sharp pile shape, Xiecha forehead Toupa outside, made chivalrous “Hero knot”, symbolizing the inviolable dignity of men, commonly known as “day Buddha.” According to legend, “Tian Buddha” comes from a distinguished Yi youth leaders, legends when he was killed by his dragon eating meat, his head will grow dragon horn, people in order to express his memory, in their head hair long, compiled for a lock, a symbol dragon horns. This is the man the head of the Yi “Hero knot.” They also like to wear embroidered red silk in the left ear red and yellow big tragus, leaving no beard. Yi girl head wrapped in embroidered headband, fond of wearing earrings, bracelets, rings, gold and silver ornaments brought flowers.
Yi costumes in style and structure, with the rhythm of America Traditional and Simplified, static and dynamic changes in the United States; in the apparel category not only on gender, age, dress, often installed in others, as well as wedding dress, mourning, and the priests clothing, combat clothing, etc. various special costumes. So Yi is known as “Dress of the family” in the world.
