The dance costumes of "Water Girl" are characterized by a combination of tradition and modernity.
In order to better express the softness of water, the dance of "Water Girl" uses long pleated skirts to vividly express the water. Traditional Miao costumes wear a lot of silver ornaments. A girl wears silver jewelry that weighs several kilograms. In order to make it lighter in Miao dance, heavy silver jewelry will be replaced with copper pieces and copper chains.
Moreover, the Miao dance costumes are more colorful and bright, deliberately expressing artistic conceptions such as flowers, lakeside, and waves. Miao traditional clothing is mainly made of homemade linen and homespun cloth, and widely uses the unique and original batik and embroidery techniques inherited by the Miao people for thousands of years.
Most of the skirts are white or cyan, and the materials, colors, styles, embroidery, etc. of the clothing are all in original ethnic style. Generally speaking, the traditional folk craft techniques of weaving, embroidery, picking and dyeing are maintained, while interspersed with picking and embroidering, dyeing and embroidering, or a combination of weaving and embroidery, making the clothing patterns colorful and colorful.
Miao clothing customs:
The clothes of Rongshui "Damu" are named after the main tone of black (also known as Black Miao). The clothes that men usually wear are similar to those of other branches. It is the same with the Miao people. During festivals, men wear homemade shiny purple-red Tang suits with large crotch trousers, and a long green scarf wrapped around their heads. The ends of the scarf are inlaid with zigzag lace with green silk, and most of the clothes have 13 buttons.
Women wear collarless and buttonless double-breasted coats. The collar and cuffs are inlaid with Miao brocade lace or velvet embroidered lace. A diamond-shaped bust with a wide top and a sharp bottom.
The bust is embroidered, and the lower body is wearing a black pleated skirt of bright cloth. The hem of the skirt is just above the knees. The end is inlaid with lace, and a one-inch-and-a-half-inch wide silk ribbon is used to tie the upper end. The two ends of the ribbon hang down on both sides, which is particularly beautiful.
Women generally do not blink their headscarves, put a bun on the front of their head, and put a wooden comb (some put their hair on their heads). During festivals and grand events, they put various silver hairpins and silver crowns on their heads. . Silver crowns include silver sparrows, silver plates, silver flowers, silver needles and other ornaments. Some also make silver horns and wear them on their heads, and some women put various flowers on their heads.