Because the customs and cultural spirit of the Miao people are different from other ethnic groups, the living habits and language behavior of Miao women are different from those of women of other ethnic groups. Miao women have relatively many regulations. and taboos.
Miao women cannot shake hands with others. Perhaps in the minds of us Central Plains people, shaking hands is just a basic etiquette and is not harmful. However, whether it is an older Miao woman or a young woman, Miao women are more taboo about shaking hands with others, because shaking hands with them would be considered disrespectful to them.
1. The Miao costumes come in various styles and bright colors.
Miao women’s clothing has more than 100 styles, which can be regarded as the most popular among Chinese national costumes. The more representative traditional "costumes" include dozens of headdresses inserted in the bun.
Miao women generally wear narrow-sleeved, large-collared, double-breasted shorts on the upper body and pleated skirts on the lower body. The dresses may be long enough to reach the foot, elegant and colorful, or short and graceful to the knees. When wearing casual clothes, they usually wear a kerchief on their head, a short jacket with a large skirt on the upper body, trousers on the lower body, embroidered lace, an embroidered apron, and some exquisite silver ornaments to set it off. Miao men's attire is relatively simple. The tops are mostly double-breasted shorts or right-sided long shirts, wool felt with geometric patterns woven over their shoulders, a cyan Baotou on their head, and leggings on their calves.
2. The Miao people are good at singing and dancing
The "Flying Song" of the Miao people is high-pitched, loud and highly contagious; dances include reed dance, bench dance, copper drum dance, etc., with the reed instrument Dancing is the most common. Lusheng dance is performed on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the third day of the third lunar month, the Double Ninth Festival and other festivals, as well as on days such as house building, harvest, and wedding receptions. The dance postures include multiple changes in the lower limbs. The folk mass Lusheng dance is usually led by two to five men playing the Lusheng, while others dance in a circle to the music. The scene is spectacular and the atmosphere is warm.
In the Miao people, the self-entertainment collective singing and dancing of young men and women is often called "Treading the Hall". However, since the "Treading the Hall" dance is inseparable from the accompaniment of the Lusheng, the tradition of "Treading the Hall" is now The name has basically been changed to "Lusheng Dance".
3. Unique architectural style
Due to their unique migration history, the Miao people have formed their own unique architectural style in the selection of building materials and construction of houses. The Miao people like wooden buildings, which are usually built with three floors. The first floor is generally used to solve the problem of uneven slopes, so it is usually a half house for stacking debris or housing livestock. The second floor is the main house, and the third floor is the granary. , some people specially set up a "beauty lean-to" on the third floor for young girls to look at and show their beauty, so as to establish a preliminary relationship with the elder brother of the Miao family.