Chinese National Costume Culture -- The Dress Culture Of The Mud Race

A brief history of the national costume of the Mu nationality

The mud race is mainly distributed in the area.

Zhuang Autonomous Region.

The Mu nationality advocates the blue color, the clothing style is simple and simple.

Over the past hundred years, its costume has undergone several stages of change.

Before the revolution of 1911, a man in a family of ordinary people only wore a long gown during his life.

Other time, wear no collar blouse, length can cover the buttocks, the body is wide sleeved, the front seam is buckled, opened on the right side of the chest, commonly known as "wooden barrel cover", also known as "Pipa Lapel".

After 1911, men wore fewer Pipa Lapel clothes. Most of them wore big Lapel suits. They moved the buttons on the right side of the chest to the ribs, and the styles were still the same as those of Pipa shirts.

At this time, the "tights" and "breeches" emerge in the winter.

After 1949, the clothes of the Mu nationality were mostly Chinese.

In 80s, the old fashions were replaced, except for some elderly people who wore them.

Characteristics -- wearing blue

"Guangxi's Tongzhi" contains: "Yi Shan Mu Mu is an official, and he is still green."

Wearing blue is one of the characteristics of the Mu nationality clothing.

The Mu people grow cotton and Lonicera from their own cloth.

The way to dye the cloth is to put the cloth into the dye vat and soak it with the blue indigo water. After the coloring is uniform, pick it up and paste it with rice soup, dioscorea tuber and cowhide glue.

After drying, the stones are rolled or beaten by the hammer, so that the fabrics produced are bright, beautiful and durable.

The mud cloth dyed by Lonicera is regarded as a treasure. The old people's "old clothes" and the girls' "send dresses" are made of this cloth.

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Women's wear

The worn aprons and laces made of indigo dyed dyed cloth made of black and white cotton thread were woven into black and white geometric patterns, and skirts were woven by weave threads into netted patterns.

When girls walk on the slope, they must be made of cloth with the same year's shoes as a token of love.

And the boat embroidered shoes -- gifts for the elderly are not such cloth, and the waistband, Baotou cloth and other articles, embroidered with flowers, grass, insects and birds on the cloth, are more vivid and lifelike.

In general, women wear large blouses and trousers, and at home they are full of feet.

The old women wore green aprons on their waist, and the laces used the black and white cotton thread to weave exquisite geometric designs. The skirts were also woven with weave threads to make netted patterns, simple and elegant.

The woman wore a large skirt with rolled edges, wide sleeves and sleeves, embroidered skirt or trousers, a green cloth apron, a geometric pattern on the skirt, and various gold and silver ornaments.

In the past, the men of the mud race wore Lapel collars and trousers, and the elderly wore Pipa jackets (only the rich gentlemen or "distinguished" talents could wear collar shirts or long gowns), trousers, straw sandals and bare feet.

Old people often wear "bowl cap" along the flat top. Young adults often wear melon bowl cap or green cloth scarf. Children like to wear no top Embroidered Flower Hat, and the front is decorated with silver or bronze Buddha figures and small bells.

Modern young men wear pairs of trousers and trousers.

The fabric is made of self woven green cloth.

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Women's decoration

The ornaments of silver jade ornaments of the Mu nationality women like making silver and jade.

Silver jewelry includes: silver needle, silver hairpin, silver hairpin, silver bracelet, silver ring, silver ring.

The silver needle is about three inches long, resembling the leaves of the green onion. It is big and sharp, rough like the leaves of the green onion, and is used for bun in the bun.

Silver Chai is a small silver pillar, and the upper end of the hairpin has a silver coin sized silver flower. The silver flower is made of two short silver columns rolled with fine silver thread and a small POM on each end.

Silver Chai is also an ornament that is inserted into the bun.

Silver rings and silver Chai usually do not wear. They are worn only when they are married or guests.

Jade jewelry include jade hairpin and jade bracelet.

The women of the Mu nationality, who were not married, braided (mostly short haircuts), married and tied up. Young women had "bangs" in front of their heads, and old women used green cloth scarf Baotou.

The baby's straps are also used in all kinds of colored silk weaving flowers, insects, birds, delicate and vivid, lifelike, showing the artistic genius of the people of the Mu nationality.

According to historical records, before the two dynasties in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the women of the Tuo nationality wore the wide sleeves, the wide sleeves and the full sleeves, the embroidered barrel skirts, the silver rings, the silver rings, the bracelets and rings, and the national characteristics.

During the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty (1465 - 1487), the feudal rulers had forced the modification of the ream, and gradually changed.

The shoes of the mud race

The production of MOR women's Metropolis

Its workmanship is very particular.

Women wear pointy shoes, shoes and flowers embroidered with colored silk and Seiko.

It is the two typical handicraft with the embroidered embroidery of the children of the Mu nationality.

Men wore cloud head shoes before 1911, which are hard to find nowadays.

According to some elderly people, homemade cloth shoes used to have "cloud head shoes", "cat shoe shoes", "single beam shoes", "double beam shoes" and other four styles.

The mud people like to wear straw sandals.

Because it is soft and comfortable, easy to walk, but also a kind of weaving handicraft.

There are many kinds of straw sandals in the village of Mu mountain, including bamboo hemp straw shoes, Jute Straw Sandals, straw straw sandals and so on.

Put the chopped tender bamboo on the fire and roast it soft, scrape it with a knife, wire it, beat it lightly, dry it and make it into linen.

It has the characteristics of easy to do and durable, and has been circulating so far.

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Cloud top shoes are a kind of cloth flat shoes.

There are two kinds of round mouth and square mouth.

Both sole and vamp are made of cloth.

The sole is covered with 20 layers of cloth, and 2 layers of dried bamboo shoots are used to increase the air permeability and elasticity of the sole.

The upper is covered with 4~5 layers of cloth and sewed with cotton thread.

The toe of the shoe is wider and stitched into a moire.

After the bottom is synthesized, apply the multi-layer tung oil on the sole to touch the ground.

It is durable, warm, moistureproof and moisture resistant.

Cloud head shoes were more common before the Republic of China. Later, with the popularity of rubber shoes and leather shoes, it has basically disappeared.

Hat

Straw cap: the straw cap of the mud has a long history.

The straw hat made of straw is made of lime to make it white and dry. There is a custom in the mud race that a girl can not marry if she can not knit straw hat.

Yang Meizhu hat: Yangmei bamboo hat is exquisite in technology, variety, square eye cap, six eye cap, dome cap, pointed hat, duck cap, small hat and so on.

Light and generous, wide range of uses, not only shading, but also shelter from the rain and wind.