Rongshui Miao clothing
Most of the Miao people around Rongshui County in Guangxi call themselves "dabmub", which is transliterated as "Damu". This type of Miao clothes is mainly black, so it is also called "black Miao". In fact, they use the stone blue cloth dyed by themselves with indigo to sew clothes. Most of this cloth is woven by themselves, and its color is different from the printing and dyeing of ordinary woven cloth. The production of self-dyed cloth is very particular: the woven white cloth is steamed once, and then dyed with indigo. Generally, it needs five washes, five dyes, and five suns, and it needs to be polished twice with raw egg white. After the cloth is dyed, it is placed on the bluestone slab and hammered flat with a wooden hammer. Generally, the cloth of a piece of clothing needs to be hammered for several days. It is said that this is to make the cloth smoother, stronger, and brighter. This kind of cloth is translucent and blue-black in color, also known as "bright cloth", which is more popular among Miao people. The clothes worn by men on weekdays are roughly the same as those of other branches of the Miao people. During the festival, men wear homemade glittering stone blue and purple red Tang suits, wide crotch trousers, large belts, and stone blue scarves. Unmarried people wear green silk embroidery on both ends of their scarves to form zigzag lace, implying that Miao Mountain has evergreen dense forests. There are 9, 13, or 17 buttons (cloth buttons). Odd numbers indicate that they are not married yet, and even numbers indicate that they have spouses. In winter, leggings are wrapped around the calves. This kind of ethnic costume is very gentlemanly to wear, which not only highlights the sturdy characteristics of the ethnic group, but also attracts attention. Miao women are famous for their colorful and exquisite craftsmanship. Women wear collarless, buttonless, double-breasted, narrow-sleeved outer clothes. The collar, lapel, hem, and cuffs are all inlaid with Miao brocade lace or silk embroidered with flowers, plants, fish, insects, bees, butterflies, and animals. It is pleasing to the eye and looks shining. The two lapels can be tied or left open. A wide-top-pointed-bottom diamond-shaped chest pocket is hung inside the garment. The chest embroidery on the chest features landscapes, mandarin ducks, the Chinese character "Wan", the Chinese character "Fu", the Chinese character "Shou", and the Chinese character "Double Happiness". The meaning is profound, the conception is ingenious, and the image is vivid. The lower body is a black bright cloth pleated skirt. The skirt is either long enough to reach the feet, flowing and graceful, with the hem above the knee or short enough to fall below the knee, which is graceful and moving. When walking, it is shining and particularly dazzling. There are foot covers on the calves, and the lower end of the leg covers is decorated with lace. At the upper end, 67 cm below the knee, a one-and-a-half-inch wide colorful silk ribbon is tied and tied to the upper end. The two ends of the silk ribbon hang parallel to the outside of the calf, which is very beautiful. Women generally do not wear headscarves. They wear a bun on the left side of their heads and insert a wooden comb (some also insert a hairpin at the back of their heads). They are divided into casual wear and formal wear: casual wear is simple, plain and generous. When wearing casual wear, people usually wrap a headscarf on their heads, wear a short coat with a large collar on the upper body, long trousers on the lower body, embroidered lace, tie an embroidered waistband, and add a few exquisite silver ornaments to set off. Formal wear is gorgeous and luxurious, and is carefully made. Formal wear generally has various cross-stitching and embroidery, and when wearing it, it is also necessary to wear various silver ornaments: silver horns, silver flowers, silver hairpins, silver hairpins, silver combs, silver earrings, silver pendants, silver collars, necklaces, breastplates, and various silver pieces, silver buckles, and silver bells. "A graceful lady is a good match for a gentleman" The silver light sways under the sunshine, and the girl is charming, and she looks full of jewels and has a unique charm. Nowadays, it costs about three or four thousand yuan to make a complete set of gorgeous costumes. During festivals and hill-climbing meetings, thousands of Miao girls will gather in colorful clothes. It looks very eye-catching and charming. Dancing to the melodious and beautiful Lusheng music, she looks like a fairy (No pictures yet, please provide them.) (No pictures yet, please provide them.)