Chinese National Costume Culture -- Shui Nationality Dress Culture

Brief history of Shui nationality clothing

The Shui nationality was an ancient "Luo Yue" and moved to the border between Guizhou and Guangxi in the Qin Dynasty. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, the women of the Shui nationality had their hair tied. In the Ming Dynasty, men wore long hair, tied on top of their heads, and wore collar and no shirt. In the Ming Dynasty, the government implemented a large-scale immigration and reclamation policy. A large number of Han people moved into the aquarium areas. After a long period of intercourse with the Shui people, some Han people were integrated into the Shui nationality. In the Qing Dynasty, under the influence of forced modification of the government, the elderly men wore shaved hair and braid, wore a leather cap, wore a long blue shirt with big lapis, round necksleeves and wide sleeves, lined with white cloth gowns, dressed in blue and blue trousers, cat shoes or pointed shoes, and wore cotton gowns and trousers in winter. The young man shaved his hair and plaited his head on the top of his head. He wore Baotou blue cloth. He wore a big jacket, no collar jacket or long gown, wore straight pants, and wore socks and Yuan Baogai. Cloth shoes 。 The elderly women grow in the top and use the green cloth scarf in Baotou. Young and middle-aged women will be combed into a long hair, wrapped around the head, wrapped in blue and white cloth long scarves, and all kinds of silver ornaments when they are dressed. They should wear jackets, round necks, wide sleeves and silver buckles. The bottom is mostly pleated skirts, some are tied up with leggings, waist is waist waistcloth (waist), and feet wear pointed shoes or embroidered shoes.

The elderly men of the Shui nationality have shaved hair and a long gown. Young and middle-aged men shaved, wrapped in blue cloth Baotou, and wore more pairs of buttons. In the guest and festive occasion, a jacket and a pair of shoes are worn. Men's clothing is similar to Han clothing. {page_break}

Aquarium waist

Shui nationality clothing. It is popular in Guizhou, Libo and other places. Black earth cloth, embroidered in front of the chest, embroidered colorful flowers, butterflies and other patterns in the trapezoidal wheel. The silver ornaments that are linked to the mouth of the waist are usually embossed silver flowers with butterflies or flowers. Decoration 。 The female coat of the Shui nationality is longer, the waist length is the same as the length of the garment, and it protects and beautifies the clothing.

　　 Lace for snake snake

Most married women are dressed in lace. Legend has it long ago that the water people lived in high mountains, dense forests, weeds and poisonous snakes. An aquarium girl named Xiu embroidered colorful ribbons on collars, cuffs, buttons, trouser legs, and embroidered some flowers on her shoes. She put on her trousers and shoes, and went to the mountains to gather firewood. Since then, the embroidered lace clothing of Shui nationality women has been gradually inherited.

　　 Shui Nationality Dress Inheritance and development

With the accelerated pace of modern civilization, the traditional culture of ethnic minorities has been impacted unprecedentedly. As the most intuitive external symbol of the aquarium, the aquarium dress has been accelerating in recent years. With the rapid development of the reform and opening up, with the development of market economy in all parts of the waterfront, with the exchange of urban and rural population, the inheritance and development of the Shui nationality clothing are facing challenges.

First, the young men and women of the Shui nationality have left their homes of their forefathers to go to work, and have been integrated into the melting pot of society. While accepting advanced production skills, he (he) has also accepted advanced ideas. He or she buys clothes on the market and wears them on the same side as Han Chinese youth.

The two is that the aquarium clothes are complicated and costly, and the young people can buy the finished products of Han nationality directly and conveniently.

Three is children from reading to the society, basically wear Han clothing.

The four is that people's ideas have changed, and the social status of the Shui nationality women has been improved. They broke through the bondage of rites and changed into Han costumes. {page_break}

However, the tradition of Shui nationality has been formed for thousands of years. Culture Deep inside, breaking through tradition is a small number. The Shui nationality clothing is loved by the vast majority of the Shui people with its solemn, generous and elegant style. It only changes in the texture, color, style and so on. With the development of the fabric and the transformation from home weaving to machine weaving, the market has begun to have artists who specializes in sewing clothes. People can buy desirable clothing materials for people to make clothes. Nowadays, with the development of the market economy, the clothing of aquatic animals has also been on the scale and grade in processing, production and production. Clothing artists purchase various kinds of fabrics and make various styles of finished garments (mainly in terms of fabric quality, length and size, color depth, lacing decoration, etc.), and then sell them to the market. As long as people have money in their pockets and do not bother to buy cloth, they can go directly to the market to buy their favorite finished products. In the past, the women of the Shui nationality grew their own cotton, made their own cloth, dyed themselves, cut their own clothes, and made their own sewing. Some capable aquarium women have also opened the national clothing store to the county town, and produced a large number of aquatic archaize garments. With the attention of the party and government departments at all levels to the traditional culture of the nation, with the exchange and understanding among different ethnic groups, the clothing of Shui nationality is more and more popular. Nowadays, the Shui nationality clothing has been popularized in the county town of the Three Autonomous Prefecture, and the female workers and staff members of the various organs and units basically have water clothing, and the Folk Lantern teams, lion dance teams and dragon dance teams all use Shui nationality costumes as their uniforms. The development of the Shui nationality clothing has produced a gratifying side.