Introduction of local ethnic costumes in Chongqing

The characteristics of Tujia costumes are recorded in the local chronicles of Tujia settlements at the junction of Chongqing, Guizhou, Hunan and Hubei: Tujia costumes are "vulgar and simple" and "without all extravagant styles"; "Men and women work hard with * * *, and the vulgar have not yet dressed"; The natives "don't wear clothes"; "Men and women have drooping hair, short clothes and feet, and they like to wear clothes." It can be seen that Tujia costumes have the overall characteristics of "respecting simplicity". For example, as recorded in Changyang County Records, Tujia people regard cloth as Shu Ren, and then continue to be lascivious and extravagant. Clothing in Changyi is almost ancient, and most of the poor people use cloth woven by local weavers as uniforms. Nine times out of ten, women wear silk skirts, but they also wear silk, and there is no complete set of silk satin. The wedding room is still gorgeous, but there are no ornaments except silver and silk. Xia Wei Ge Ma, Dong Xian Yang Qiu, a woman works very hard except spinning, but she is not a silkworm. Mulberry leaves are very thin, even thinner in Changyang, so silk is not very valuable, which is also because of the local atmosphere, not lazy.

Before liberation, Tujia people used homemade and dyed homespun as their clothing material. Men usually wear black or blue, while women are dyed with jubilant patterns such as "Deer as Lotus", "Magpie as Plum" and "Twin Phoenix as Morning Sun". The basic characteristics of men's wear are: the top is the "pipa placket", and later it gradually wears a double-breasted coat and a collarless full lapel coat; The belt is wrapped around the waist; Pants are big and short, all blue, and leggings are used more; The head is covered with a green silk handkerchief or a white cloth five or six feet long, showing a "human" shape; Wear slant-ear sandals, full-ear sandals, cloth shoes or spikes. The basic characteristics of women's wear are: the jacket has a short right collar, the collar is inlaid with three lace (commonly known as "three strands of ribs"), and the hem and cuffs are attached with three small lace railings; Wearing an "eight-piece skirt" with many straight pleats, it was later changed to a large tube trousers with three colored laces on the trouser legs; The girl's plain dress is a black cloth coat, and she wears white clothes in spring and autumn. The coat is black and the color is like a crow and magpie, which is called "crow and magpie clothes". Characteristics of Miao costumes Miao compatriots like to wear blue clothes. Both men and women wear green silk handkerchiefs or white cloth handkerchiefs more than ten feet long, wrapped in herringbone, while women are decorated with silver ornaments such as silver combs, melon seeds needles, jasmine needles and banana fans. Wear gold, silver and jade jewelry, such as earrings, earrings, bracelets and rings.

Children's clothes and trousers are not too particular, just decorate them with some floral patterns. Hats are very particular, wearing purple and gold crowns in spring; Wear hoop hats, toad hats and cool hats in summer; Wear winter melon hat, hood, octagonal hat, phoenix tail hat and other cotton hats in autumn. The hat is embroidered with all kinds of colored silk, nailed with silver ornaments such as the Eight Immortals of Literature, the Eight Immortals of Martial Arts and the Eighteen Arhats. Wear a sputum flail around your neck to catch saliva, and a collar with ornaments such as a silver bell and a "hundred locks". There are flower pockets on the chest, silver rings on the arms and legs, and silver hammers and bells on the rings. Wearing "Baba shoes" and "cat's head shoes" is embroidered with five-color flowers.