Miao women generally wear narrow-sleeved, large-necked, lapel-lapeled short clothes on the upper body, and pleated skirts on the lower body. The skirts are either long enough to reach the feet, flowing and graceful, or shorter than the knees, graceful and attractive. Casual wear is more in the head wrapped bandana, upper body lapel short jacket, lower body pants, embroidered lace, tie a picture of embroidered waist, plus a little delicate silver jewelry set off.
Hmong men's attire is relatively simple, the upper garment is mostly a pair of lapel short clothes or right-over-right long shirt, shoulder draped with geometric patterns of wool felt, head wrapped in green wrapped head, calves wrapped wrapped tied legs.
Some Miao areas, avoid scrubbing anytime drinking cauldrons, rice packets, rice pots, can only be washed when eating new rice to show that the old rice to meet the new rice. Scrubbing at any time will wash away the family wealth, rice is not enough to eat. Drinking raw water in the mountains is not to be drunk directly, and must be marked with grass first, to show that it kills the sick ghosts.
Just don't move the clothes that others put on the roadside, so as not to infect leprosy. Avoid children in the home play small bow and arrow, fear of shooting ancestors. It is forbidden to cross a child's head, otherwise the child will not grow tall. It is forbidden for women to sit on the same bench with their elders. The taboos of the Miao people vary according to different branches.
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The rituals of Hmong marriage customs are a very small branch of the Bardai cultural system. Marriage customs in the divination, marriage, please matchmaker, ask for grain seed (marriage), three matchmakers, six certificates, Xu mouth to allow marriage, betrothal told the clan, recognize the family and tell the ancestors, receive the family over the rites, send the family out of the boudoir.
Crossing the fire into the door, the bride into the house, the fixed stool into the seat, incense and fire to isolate the evil spirits, water bowls to prevent the death of the marriage ceremony, ancient songs and ancient language, national migration, the family name settlement, the ancient three matchmakers, the contemporary six certificates, the maternal uncle, the auspicious seat to honor the ancestors, the gift of mutual thanks, tandem Din Cai Shui, back to the door of the blessing and so on a set of tedious and complete set of etiquette and customs.
The foundation of the marriage of the Miao people is firmly established, and the temple of the Miao people's marital bliss is built, and the platform of mutual respect and love between men and women is solidified, and the platform of the white head and harmonious old age. In the past, the divorce rate in the Miao area is almost zero, occasionally divorce cases, there are "ten anti-life nine anti-wife" said and practiced, unlike the contemporary such as ten knot five away, and even married before January on the divorce of the strange phenomenon of chaos.
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