Lahu's Black Costumes Culture

　　 Lahu nationality It is a unique ethnic group in Yunnan. It is mainly distributed in Lancang, Meng Lian, Shuang Jiang, Menghai, Ximeng and other counties in the southern part of Yunnan Province, with a population of about 434000. The ancestors of the Lahu nationality belonged to the ancient Qiang people system. Lahu believes in Mahayana Buddhism and Christianity. The language belongs to the Yi language branch of the Tibetan and Burmese languages. In the past, some Lahu people used the Latin alphabet written by Western missionaries because they had close contacts with the Han and Dai people and could use both Chinese and Dai language. In 1957, the phonetic alphabet was created on the basis of the original. The Lahu area belongs to the Subtropical Mountainous Area, mainly in agriculture. Besides planting grain, it also vigorously planted sugarcane, tea, coffee and rubber.

Lahu's traditional festivals include the year of La Hu, and the festival of expanding the tower, including the Spring Festival, the torch festival, the Moon Festival and the New Year Festival. The most solemn festival is the year of La Hu. On the eve of the Lunar New Year's Eve, the "big Baba" symbolizes the sun and the moon. The little Baba symbolizes the stars and the grain harvest. Put some Baba on the farm implements, so that they can share the happiness of the festival with their owners. In the early morning of the first day, all the young people in the whole village had to carry back the gourd or carry the bamboo tube to the mountain spring to grab the new water. Then they began to celebrate the new year formally, drinking and singing. Generally, the new year starts from the first day to the fifth day of the new year, and from the ninth to the eleven in the first year. The activities in the new year are basically the same as those in the new year. During the new year, men and women choose some grain filled, mature early rice spikes and new rice in the rice field and the valley. They also eat fresh vegetables, fruits and pigs, and invite their uncle, uncle and relatives to have dinner together. In the hunting period, the bitter consort of the Lahu nationality used to win the first prize of the animal that was hunted to the first shot, and the foreleg prize was given to the person who found the prey, and the remaining meat was per capita.

Lahu's young men and women are more free from marriage and social interaction. On the day of marriage, both men and women want to kill the pig. The man sends the pig's head to the home of the woman, then breaks it in half, and half of it is still brought back; the pig's head of the woman's house is the same, so as to show the flesh and blood, "new marriage and harmony". Lahu's marriage is monogamy. There is a custom of going to a wife for 3 years. If the couple is not happy, they can ask people to give evidence, burn the silk thread, and then divorce.

Lahu men wear light colored right handed collars. robe And trousers, like wearing a knife, wearing a belt, feet wearing cloth shoes, wearing Baotou, the two sides of the gowns have a high slit, the neckline skirts and other places with dark colored cloth border, Baotou with Bai Honghei and other colored cloth intertwined wrapped. Lahu women's clothing has the characteristics of women's clothing on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau. They wear black cloth long gown, long to the knees, slit and slit on both sides, the right collar is decorated with silver bubbles, and the red or white lace is embroidered on the cuffs and the side of the collar, so that it looks bright and beautiful. Wear pants. Some women in Xishuangbanna shave their heads, wear black scarves, wear earrings, and wear "Puba" (big silver) on their chest.

The women of Lahu nationality wearing long trousers and trousers in Lancang, such as Zi Zhu River, Shuang Jiang Meng Gu, Cangyuan and Gengma are generally girdled girdle. The belts are mostly made of red, green and yellow cloth, and legs are made of feet, made of green blue cloth, about one foot long, with exquisite geometric patterns on them. Dress adornment Lahu women pay more attention to the adornment on clothes. The original costumes are relatively simple, only on the side of the garment, such as diagonal cardigan, hand sleeves, shoulders and so on, with red, white and yellow pieces of cloth. With the development of handicraft industry, all kinds of clothing products made of silver are loved by Lahu women. There are mainly silver bubbles, silver hangers, silver buttons, silver bracelets, silver necklaces, and Tremella rings. Every happy day, Lahu women, especially young women, are dressed in silver dresses, earrings, neck necks, and heads gathered around Baotou. At the same time, silver jewelry is also a token of mutual gift from Lahu young men and women. "Backpack" jewelry "backpack" is not only the production and daily necessities of the Lahu people, but also one of the costumes that men and women love. No matter where they go, Lahu people carry a backpack and install production and daily necessities. Lahu's backpack adornment, some of which are made of geometric patterns of small piece of coloured cloth, some of which are made of silver foam or velvet yarn, with bright colors and beautiful appearance. Most of them are hand-made by beautiful Lahu women.

Lahu women's clothing has the characteristics of women's clothing on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau. Black cloth cardigan coat The shirt comes to the foot and opens to the waist. The collar and the opening are lined with rust colored lace and silver foam, and under trousers. {page_break}

Some women in Xishuangbanna shave their heads, wear black scarves, wear earrings, and wear "Puba" (big silver) on their chest.

Yi Shang black is a feature of Lahu's dress. Lahu loved black, black and black. Most of the clothes are made of black cloth, decorated with various lace patterns with colored lines and colored cloth, and then embedded with white silver bubbles. The whole color is deep and contrasting, giving people boundless beauty.

So far, the Lahu people still love to wear traditional costumes. They can still get a glimpse of the national costume of the ancient Qiang Qiang system through the dress of Lahu. In the literature of the Tang Dynasty, the ancient women were dressed in black and black.