Chinese National Costume Culture -- Dai Nationality'S Clothing Culture

1. The general situation of Nationalities

Dai nationality is

A unique ethnic group, with a population of 1138 and l00 people, mainly lives in the tropics, the fertile and rich dams in the subtropical climate - Xishuangbanna, Dehong two states, Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Gengma, Meng Lian and other places.

Dai people believe in Buddhism. When they reach the age of seven or eight, boys are sent to Buddhist temples to go to a monk's life. After entering the temple, they are held by Buddha to enter the temple ceremony. They shave their hair and wear a yellow scarf and live in the temple for 35 years.

After getting married, they can get married, have children, join the army, go to school, etc.

The Dai language belongs to the Sino Tibetan language family.

The Dai people have their own characters. The Dai people recorded rich historical legends, religious classics and literary poems.

The Dai people not only sang and sang well, but also created brilliant culture, especially Dai, Dai medicine and narrative poems.

Two, characteristic culture

Rice and glutinous rice are the staple food.

Dehong's Dai nationality staple food japonica rice, Xishuangbanna Dai people staple food glutinous rice.

Usually they are eaten now, and all the dishes and snacks are mainly sour, such as sour bamboo shoots, sour peas flour, sour meat and wild sour fruit. They like to eat dried sauerkraut. It is said that the Dai people often eat sour dishes because they often eat sticky rice food which is not easy to digest, and sour food helps to eliminate them.

Visitors to Dai will be treated by "splashing water" and "tie line".

When the guests arrived, there were Dai Xiao Bu sentries on the door with silver petals and petals of petals, sprinkled gently on the guests with branches and leaves.

When you enter the bamboo house, you will give the guests a thread on your wrist to wish the guests a good luck and happiness.

The furniture in Dai house is very simple, and bamboo is the largest. All tables, chairs, beds, boxes, cages and baskets are all made of bamboo.

There are simple quilts and bills, and occasionally some felt, lead iron and other tools. Farm implements and pot knives are only useful. There are few surplus workers. Pottery is also very common.

The biggest festival of Dai is water splashing Festival.

The time is April each year.

In chronological order, the April of the Gregorian calendar is equivalent to the first month of the Dai calendar.

The water splashing Festival is also the Lunar New Year Festival. According to the traditional custom, people should gather flowers and green leaves to worship the Buddhist temples in the early morning of the day.

Having done this, the mass splashing of water began, and a group of young men and women, who used bronze bowls, washes and water, poured out of the streets and lanes, playing and chasing each other, splashing water on auspicious water, until they were all wet through head to toe.

The Dai nationality has distinctive national characteristics, outstanding people's general interest in singing and dancing, vivid dance, delicate feelings, and movements are mostly imitation and beautification of animal form.

The peacock dance and elephant foot dance, especially the graceful dance and delicate emotion of peacock dance, are very popular. The peacock's beautiful animal is imperfectly simulated and beautified, bringing people into the realm of poetry and making the audience collapse.

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Three, men

The clothing of Dai men in all parts of the country is not very different. They are generally plain and generous. The upper body is a collars with no collar or big sleeves and a short sleeved shirt. Under the waist waist, no trousers and trousers are pure colored trousers. The white and blue cloth Baotou is used. Some of them wear a hat. They often wear blankets in cold weather, and are often barefoot in the four seasons.

This kind of clothing is light and comfortable during farming, and makes the wearer look handsome when dancing.

They retain the characteristics of the ancient "coat pair", "head wrapped cloth, hanging back bags and short knives", but the material is rarely used for weaving "homespun".

Chinese tunic suits and suits have become fashionable clothes of Dai Zhuang men.

In recent years, there have been small sleeved shirts with collar or big scarf, and scarves changed to water red, green, pink silk, and trousers are still.

Dai men generally do not wear ornaments and occasionally find a shining silver bracelet on their wrist.

Gold teeth and silver teeth are their favorites.

They usually pull out their front teeth and replace them with gold or silver dentures.

In the past, there were tattoos, symbols in the chest, back, abdomen, limbs, and other patterns, such as lion tigers, unicorns, peacocks, and so on.

Four. Women's clothing

Dai women dress well and pursue light, elegant, elegant dress and harmonious clothing color.

Young women make long hair on the top of their heads, which is a notable feature of Dai clothing.

Dai women are dressed in various kinds of tight underwear. They wear light coloured skirts or narrow sleeves. They are dressed in colorful skirts. They have various patterns on their skirts. Dai women like to wear long hair and bun, slanting in the bun, decorating hairpins or flowers.

Dai women like to wear jewelry. Jewelry is usually made of gold and silver, mostly hollow, with exquisite patterns and patterns on it. Dai women generally grow slender and have a beautiful face. They look graceful and graceful, so they are known as "golden peacocks".

A good name.

Not only do they grow beautiful, but they are also good at dressing up and dress up with their unique costumes.

Dai women generally like to wear narrow sleeves and short skirts to show their slender slim figure.

Above is a white or coloured underwear. Outside is a tight jacket. The collar is narrow sleeves, with big buttons and a pair of buttons. It has many colors, such as water red, light yellow, light green, snow white, sky blue, and so on.

Now they are mostly made of fabrics made of fabrics such as George, silk and Dacron.

Narrow sleeves and short sleeves are tightly wrapped around their arms. There are hardly any gaps. Many people still like to sew with meat colored clothing. If you don't look carefully, you can't see the sleeves. The front and back skirts are just waist tight, tightly wrapped around the body. Then a silver belt is tied to the short sleeved shirt and the skirt of the skirt, and the ankle length skirt is growing to the waist. The waist is small and thin, and the hem is wide.

The dress of Dai women shows the beauty of women's chest, waist and buttocks, and the fabric used is soft and bright. No matter walking or doing things, it gives people a graceful and elegant feeling.

Dai women now wear coloured, coloured, sleeveless and sleeveless breast gowns.

Land.

Long skirt discount, the most silver belt is in the waist, the obvious is obvious, when convergence is convergence, make the female curve clear, lower limbs slender, showing slim slim slim posture.

Women in cities and towns have little scarf, more bun in the top, flower arrangement, do not wear hairpins, card combs as ornaments, more explicit and graceful.

The color of the dress is peacock green, pale green, flesh red, pink, yellowish and yellowish.

The material is usually made of thin, soft, soft, dacron, dacron, or brocade silk.

When you go out to participate in a rally or rush, you should be fashionable.

Sandals, elbows, handbags, and hand umbrellas cover the sun and show beautiful and moving demeanor.

The style of dress is developed on the basis of absorbing the essence of traditional costumes, moving towards beautiful, light, bright and elegant direction.

It further shows the colorful characteristics of peacock feathers in the peacock town.

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Five, wearing custom

The Dai nationality's clothing is elegant and beautiful. It is not only practical, but also has strong decoration meaning. It can reflect the national character of loving life and advocating the beauty of neutralization.

The clothing of men everywhere is not very different. They usually wear no collar or big sleeves, and long sleeves, with white cloth, water red cloth or blue cloth Baotou.

The dress of Dai women varies from region to region.

No collar, narrow sleeves, short skirts, long skirts and long skirts and beautiful silver belt girdles. Some Dai women in the Dehong area also wear large uniform skirts and blouses. Some of them (such as Luxi and Yingjiang) wear white or other light colored big blouses, trousers and embroidered waistlines. After marriage, they wear breasted blouse and uniform skirts. Dai women in Xishuangbanna wear tight underwear and tight outer covers.

All kinds of Dai women's clothing can show the graceful and graceful posture of women.

Dai women love to wear long hair on top of their heads. Some are decorated with combs or flowers. Some have Baotou towels, others wear high tube caps, others wear a pointed top and big hat. Each shows their beauty and is quite unique.

Dai clothing, which is rich in tropical and subtropical scenery, is also unique in its national characteristics.

Dai men generally prefer to wear no collar or big sleeves, or long sleeves, and use white cloth, red cloth or blue cloth Baotou.

The custom of tattoos is commonly used as an integral part of the beauty of body decoration.

The patterns include animals such as tigers, leopards, elephants, lions, dragons, snakes, animals, scriptures, eight diagrams, lines and so on.

Women's clothing varies from region to region.

Dai women in the Dehong area wore many light colored big breasted blouses before wearing their wives, wore trousers and wore a small waist.

Dai women in Xishuangbanna are wearing white, tripping or sky blue tight underwear, big or narrow collar sleeves.

Dai women everywhere are very fastidious about hair accessories.

Young women often wear hair on top of their heads.

On weekdays, there are more than pads or plugging combs.

If the festival is joyous, girls will love flowers and perfume on the hair shop, and then dress up with exquisite dress made of silk, nylon, corduroy and velvet.

Every time you encounter a river, you have a slim body after bathing.

The slim Dai girls put their shiny black bun on the back of their heads, and buckled the silver belt between the tight blouse and the flower skirt.

Six, the difference between Dai women's clothing everywhere

Dai women in Xishuangbanna wear all kinds of tight underwear, the outer cover is tight, no collar, narrow sleeves, short skirts, wear colorful skirts, long and feet, and use fine silver belt girdle skirts. Dai women in Dehong area also wear large skirt skirts and blouses. Some of them (such as Luxi and Yingjiang) wear white or other light colored big blouses, trousers and embroidered waistlines, and then wear breasted blouse and skirt.

The "Hua Dai Dai" in Xinping and Yuanjiang is dressed in cardigan blouses and black skirts. The skirts are decorated with colored cloth and silver bubbles, and are decorated with various designs and bright colors.

Dai women love to wear long hair on top of their heads. Some are decorated with combs or flowers. Some have Baotou towels, others wear high tube caps, others wear a pointed top and big hat. Each shows their beauty and is quite unique.

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The dress of Dai women in Dehong is different.

When they are girls, they usually wear white or scarlet big breasted blouses and trousers. They will put their plaits on their heads and put a small waist around their waist. After they get married, they will wear a breasted blouse and a skirt.

Dai women in Dehong also have different hairstyles. Young women wear their hair on top of their heads, while middle-aged and elderly women no longer wear their hair and wear a black high cap.