The Clothes Of Ancient Ancestors, The Costumes Of Li Nationality

Kipib's era has passed, but

Just imagine thousands of years ago, the Li Nationality Ancestors stripped the bark of the tree or tree from the mountain, then slapped off the outer bark, left the fiber layer, then soaked in water and dried to make it into the raw material for weaving.

Made from this bark fiber.

The difference between the bark of the Li nationality and our textiles yesterday is that the bark cloth is made of bark and made by careful slapping. It belongs to no textiles.

Due to geographical obstacles, the cultural and technological exchanges between the Li and the central plains were cut off, plus the textile technology efficiency at that time, and the production of bark cloth was simple, convenient and economical. When the mankind entered the industrial civilization, this ancient textile technology was well preserved in some Li nationality areas of Hainan Island.

It is this rough raw material that allows us to see through the tunnel of time and space and see the wisdom of our human ancestors.

Mankind has gone through a long historical process from producing no textiles to mastering the technology of cotton and linen.

In 20s of twentieth Century, RobertvonHeine-Geldem, a scholar in Austria, concluded that the bark cloth of Southeast Asian Mongol peoples was their oldest clothing material and was gradually replaced by textile fabrics.

Before he made this assertion, whether he had seen the bark cloth of the Li nationality before, was not known.

Dr Deng Cong, a Hongkong scholar, studied the tree bark of Li Nationality in the history of world textile, and thought that bark cloth was a great invention with worldwide influence.

He also made bold guesses about the spread of the bark cloth technology in the world: the bark cloth technology has moved southward from South China to Southeast China, and has crossed the Pacific Islands from sea to Central America.

If so, the clothing of the Li nationality's bark cloth can be called the clothes of the ancient ancestors of the human race.

It is unthinkable that our clothes yesterday are closely related to a nation with a population of only about 1200000 today.

The oldest clothing technology that once represents the great civilization process of mankind is the technology of making bark cloth that remains in the hands of the Li people.