1, the Dai: women traditionally wear narrow-sleeved short clothes and tube skirts. Dai men wear collarless lapel or large lapel small-sleeved short shirt, under the long tube pants, cold weather cloak felt, more white cloth or green cloth head. The custom of tattooing men is very common, both to show bravery, but also to ward off evil spirits and decorate the body.
2, Jingpo: men's clothing in black and white as the main color, the elderly men's clothing of the same branches, are wearing black lapel short jacket and black wide-tube pants, wearing a black head. The women's dress is black or various colors of the upper body of the lapel or the right lapel tight short clothes, the lower body of the net color or woven with Jingpo characteristic patterns of cotton long skirt.
The dress is a festival or wedding dress, black short-breasted collarless narrow-sleeved shirt, chest, shoulder and back decorated with silver bubbles, silver medals and silver tassels, under the woolen skirt woven with red, black, yellow, green and other colors of wool in beautiful patterns, red belt around the waist, headdresses of jacquard wool woven with a red background, the calves wrapped with the same color as the skirt texture of the wrap legs, wearing a number of strings of red necklaces and earrings, bracelets.
3, Achang: traditionally, the Achang men generally wear blue, white or black lapel tops, black pants. Adult men in the Lasa region also wear left-breasted tops. Male young adults of the Achang ethnic group in Tosha prefer to wrap their heads in white buns, while those in Lianghe prefer to wrap their heads in black buns.
There is no difference between married and unmarried Achang women's costumes in Toussa, which are very similar to those of the nearby Dai ethnic group. Women in Lasa and Lianghe are wearing long-sleeved, round-breasted jackets, and tube skirts, as well as silver collars, bracelets and other jewelry.
4, De'ang: De'ang men wear blue and black lapel tops and wide and short pants, wrapped in black and white cloth head scarf, scarf ends decorated with colorful pom-poms.
Deang women mostly wear navy blue or black lapel short blouse and long skirt, with black cloth wrapped head, blouse lapel set two red cloth stripes, with four or five pairs of large square silver plate for buttons, long skirt woven with colorful horizontal stripes. Young people of both sexes like to wear silver collars, ear tubes, earrings and other jewelry .
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Why are ethnic minorities' costumes so bright and colorful
If you turn on the TV and happen to hear the classic lyrics of "fifty-six ethnic groups, fifty-six flowers," the song and dance scene that accompanies it probably reminds you that it's by no means just a symbolic metaphor. It's not just a symbolic metaphor, it's probably inspired by the colorful ethnic costumes that are like flowers.
Today's ethnic minorities don't wear fancy national costumes in their daily lives. Similar to the Han Chinese, they favor modern fashions that fit the pace of contemporary life, especially in some big cities.
For example, in Nanning, the capital of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, where Zhuang make up half of its resident population, its streets are not markedly different from those in Han Chinese neighborhoods. If you take off your headgear, the average person may not be able to tell the difference between a Uighur uncle and a Han Chinese uncle in rural Jiangsu province. Even in the rare areas where traditional ethnic dress is relatively well preserved, the ethnic clothing worn by local residents is not colorful at all.
If you see flamboyant ethnic costumes in your daily life, it's most likely to be tourism workers in their work clothes, or, of course, Han Chinese tourists taking pictures. Only a few decades ago, most ethnic minorities were much plainer in their everyday clothing than they are today.
Vegetarian cotton, linen and fur were often the main materials used in ethnic clothing, even tree bark and grass ropes were utilized, and it was rare to see head-to-toe reflective fabrics in the high-contrast color palette that dominates today's garments.
Baidu Encyclopedia - Dai Ethnicity
Baidu Encyclopedia - Achang Ethnicity
Baidu Encyclopedia - Jingpo Ethnicity
Baidu Encyclopedia - De'ang Ethnicity