Colorful Traditional Dai Costumes

Dai people have distinct personality and colorful costumes.

The process of dress making has been handed down from ancestors to today, and it still maintains its original customs.

Dai women, aged from 14 to 16, can wear adult girls' clothes to show that they have entered the ranks of young girls.

When you wear a dress in a village, you should meet your partner at the same age to wear costumes. After wearing it, you have to visit the village side of the stockade for a week. Usually you have to wear it for one or two hours before you can change it.

There are corresponding taboos in making costumes. It is not appropriate to make funeral arrangements in villages. When dressing and sewing, they can not choose to live with each other.

Dai women wear their dates according to their birthdays. They usually wear the best in double month and day, Yin Hu days and Mo hare days.

When you wear, you must have a partner, and you must have a double.

Production materials: self woven cloth, satin fabric, Yin Guangpao, sesame bell, cross stitch, gold and silver thread embroidery, silk brocade, rice soup, a plant leaf (Dai Yu called mustard), mud, lard and so on.

Processing cotton: after the cotton is collected home, it must be dried and extruded.

Spinning: the cotton is spun into a coil, then the coil is boiled in the boiling water and dried again, then the thread is wound around the small rack, and the thread is put into the small wire board in the open space.

Weaving: put the big rack on the loom and start weaving. Generally, it takes 3 to 5 days to make a round cloth.

Dyeing cloth: add the dye into the water into the woven cloth, add some glue, then stir it, boil it in boiling water, remove it, beat it with wooden board, infiltrate the hide glue and dye into it, reinforce it, make it easy to fade, and then wash and dry.

Making clothes: after the cloth is processed, it is possible to start making costumes. The technology of Dai women's making costumes has been circulated from mother to daughter.

Dai women are ingenious and can embroider. The traditional costumes are made of homemade homemade cloth and silk thread, and silk cross stitch is sewn with dyed blue and black fabrics. The fabric is woven with diamonds, octagonal, dragon, Phoenix, flower, bird, snake pattern, and gorgeous brocade.

The stitching is decorated with colorful satin fabrics, decorated with light bubbles, tinkling sesame bells and colorful tassels. The costumes are gorgeous and magnificent.

Baotou: there are two kinds: unmarried Baotou and married Baotou. There are silver bubbles on unmarried Baotou Baotou, two ears on both sides, and exquisite embroidery on the ear.

It is divided into underwear and coat. Underwear is not embroidered with embroidery. It is a cheongsam structure. The outer garment is more gorgeous and generous than the underwear. Each side of the dress has lace. The back is generally black. The skirt is embroidered with exquisite embroidery on the side. Generally, it should be done more appropriately and generously.

Leggings: a ladder shape, with embroidery on the outside, embroidery with stripes on the side, and a line on each of the four corners to tie up the leggings.

The difference between costumes is that Dai clothes are different from those worn by old people, girls and children. For example, the elderly, middle-aged people are very plain dressed, and do not deserve to wear tinkling jewelry. There are no colorful ribbons in clothes and head patterns;

Girls dress more beautiful, wearing silver earrings, silver bracelets, engraving silver rings when wearing, ten fingers all wear, silver waist (Xiao Guofan), silver ornamental bar (Mama cover shame), buttocks scarf (Pallas), flower seedling basket.

The better the dress is, the more the silver jewelry wears.

Children usually don't wear silver ornaments and don't wear big Baotou.

Old, medium, young and young people can distinguish clothes from clothing.

Hua Dai Dai women like silver earrings, silver bracelets and silver rings.

The jacket is wearing a short jacket with a narrow left, wide, narrow right, and only a long belly.

A small red or green coat made of black cloth or satin fabric that only covers the chest.

Wear a wide black skirt one to three, skirt waist at the waist, and with a self woven color around the waist for weeks, you can make a skirt and waist, and the waist waist Dai is named after that.

The tube skirt is long to the knees, and is made of embroidered stitch of yellow, red, white and other colors to make a broad and beautiful skirt.

According to Hua Dai Dai style, skirts must be lowered from top to bottom, not from foot to top, and the left and right sides must be skew, left side slightly high and right side slightly low, otherwise, it will be regarded as not beautiful.

The calf is covered with green cloth leggings. It can keep warm in winter and prevent mosquitoes from biting in summer.

The flower waist Dai is divided into two kinds: big head and small head. Big head flower waist likes umbrella, small head flower waist likes to wear a bamboo hat, waist has a delicate and unique little seedling basket.

Dai nationality's costumes are highly skilled, rich in cultural connotation and unique in style and color, making them occupy a prominent position in many ethnic traditions and gradually become known to the world.

At home and abroad, it has the superiority and uniqueness of "people without me, people having me, and people being superior to me".

The clothing culture of Dai nationality is the foundation of the national survival development of the essential characteristics of the nation. The national cultural resources belong to the resources of the human landscape tourism, and the development of the clothing resources of Dai nationality promotes the development of the local economy.

In recent years, Hua Dai Dai

Gradually improving the simplicity and simplicity of the flower waist Dai clothing, which has the original clothing, takes the essence, so that the clothing can maintain the tradition and the characteristics of the times. The costumes are convenient, fashionable and fit, and can show the curves of individuality and the unique charm.

Although simple clothes lack the weight of traditional costumes, they do not lose the lingering charm of silver ornaments, and the styles of clothes are various.