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Women Clothing styles
Women Clothing styles
Significance of Miao clothing: Miao costumes are famous for their eye-catching colors, complicated decoration and intriguing cultural connotations.
The patterns on Miao costumes often inherit and express Miao culture (like myth stories, Miao history and Miao worship). However, due to the long history, the specific meanings conveyed by these patterns cannot be fully interpreted. This become the unique charm of the Miao costume pattern
Miao girls wearing the traditional Miao costume
1. 苗族银饰 Miao silver jewelry
1. 苗族银饰 Miao silver jewelry
- Women usually wear the full set of their silver jewelry during the festival time. The whole set usually includes silver crowns, silver collars, shawls, necklaces, badges, earrings, bracelets, rings and so on. A set of seven collars from small to large some time can weigh more than 2,000 grams
Silver rings and bracelets
The whole set of Miao women silver jewelry that they need to wear during the festival
the silver collar
- Different categories of silver crowns
- silver crown with horns
A Miao woman wearing the silver horn
2.silver cap
a woman wearing the silver cap
A medium size of a silver crown with horns usually could have a width 52cm and a tall of 45cm
Photos of silver cap
Silver crown with horns:
- in some Miao region, the higher the horns are on the crowns mean that the woman has a higher social status.
- On the horns, the most common patterns depict one of the most known myth: two dragons play with a dragon ball.
- Dragon Ball is considered to be a kind of orb that can avoid fire and water. Thus the pattern shows Miao people's wishes for peace and longevity
Silver cap:
- The silver cap is composed of many silver flowers and various types of birds, butterflies, and animals.
- The lower part of the silver cap often has silver tassel.
2.Miao clothing
2.Miao clothing
From the content, the patterns of Miao costumes are mostly drawn from various living objects in Miao daily life. Those patterns serve as an important role in expressing Miao's culture and languages as they record history, myths and religion beliefs of Miao people.(see the meaning of the patterns)
From the perspective of production skills, the Miao clothing shows Miao's unique weaving, sewing, stitching, and tailoring skills.
From the point of view of color, Miao clothes have a variety of strong contrasting colors, which are generally red, black, white, yellow, and blue.
Also, there is a difference between formal and daily costumes
more daily Miao costumes
More formal Miao costumes
Men clothing
Men clothing
Miao men clothing is more simple in comparison with Miao women clothing.
They don't wear silver jewelry like Miao women, and the color of their clothing are mostly black or blue or green.
They often wrap their head swith Cyan Long Scarfs.
If someone is a really prestigious Miao leader or a groom, he would wear cap with horns.
Miao men usually wear clothes with less decoration and more simple color. They would usually wrap the heads with long scarfs.
The young Miao men wearing a cap with a horn on it.
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