Li Nationality Splendid Dress Culture

When entering the Li Zhai, you can see the men knot in front of their forehead, wrapping their heads in red cloth or black cloth, wearing no collar shirt and wearing two pieces of cloth before and after.

The famous German anthropologist stu Bo wrote in his writings: "men's clothes have nothing to attract attention to, but women's clothes are exceptionally beautiful, which is the best way to show the artistic talent of the Li people. The dress of women is made up of skirts and fine garments. This kind of skirt has many changes in its color, rich imagination and accurate skills.

This skirt refers to the most popular ethnic characteristics of Li nationality women. Straight skirt 。 As the skirt skirt is also wide and narrow, it is uniform, with no wrinkle and seamless structure. If the girls of other nationalities wear this skirt, they will not be able to fall off because they will not wear them. The skirt has a long tube, a middle tube and a short tube. No matter which one, the bottom color is black and blue, and two kinds of color lines are used to weave flowers, birds, insects, animals, figures or geometric patterns. The colourful and delicate parts are arranged in the middle, and some are arranged in the hem.

Because the skirt is woven by hand, you can hardly find two of them in dozens. This kind of skirt that condenses the diligence and wisdom of Li women can be woven by everyone and belongs to the skill handed down from generation to generation. They only use simple bamboo and wood weaving machines, without drawing, they can weave beautiful patterns.

Li's daughter wore a skirt, lined with colorful scarves, with a pair of embroidered edges and open chest. Jacket When decorations, he likes wearing ornaments such as collar, hand ring, foot ring, earring and so on, showing his beautiful and colorful life.

As an exotic flower of Chinese textile art, Li brocade belongs to the aged treasure in ancient times. such textile Kapok and wild hemp are mainly embroidered and dyed with less embroidery. Natural plant pigments are used as dyestuffs. They are made up of three pieces of brocade. They are 8 feet long and 5 feet wide. The top and the end of the brocade are 3 squares, namely the blue sky, the green space and the white space. The 1/3 brocade in the middle of the brocade is the essence of the whole brocade. It is beautifully made with exaggerated and romantic colors. The patterns are beautiful, and animals and plants are lifelike. The four national techniques of spinning, weaving, dyeing and embroidering summed up the whole picture of Li brocade.

Li textile technology in ancient times ahead of the Central Plains Han. Huang Daopo, known as the originator of the textile industry, improved the textile technology of Li nationality and spread it to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the mainland, making it later the birthplace of China's textile handicraft industry.

Along with the progress of the times, as the largest minority in Hainan, the Li nationality has been permeating some distinctive elements of Han culture and customs while inheriting and carrying forward its excellent culture and unique customs.