(1) Men's wear is mainly black and white, and the clothing of elderly men is the same in all branches. They all wear black double-breasted shorts, black wide trousers and black baotou. There are subtle differences between Jingpo branch and other branches in the clothing of young and middle-aged men. The upper body is wearing a white collar shirt, a black round neck coat, black trousers and a red and blue plaid cotton gauze cylindrical headscarf.
(2) Women's wear is divided into casual wear and formal wear. If you wear casual clothes, you will wear a black or colorful double-breasted or right-breasted jacket, and a long cotton dress with solid color or Jingpo characteristics.
2. Jingpo nationality has rich and beautiful oral literature and long narrative poems reflecting the origin and migration history of Jingpo nationality; There are stories that reflect the struggle between Jingpo people and nature; There are myths, fables, proverbs and riddles.
Historical legends, stories, etc. Most of them are combined with music, and the lyrics are beautiful and beautiful; Love songs have a wide range of contents, novel and lively forms, can express delicate and complicated thoughts and feelings, have rich imagination and high artistic conception, and occupy an important position in Jingpo oral literature. Jingpo people love music and dance, and their musical instruments are wooden drum, horn, flute, Sanbi (wind instrument), elephant foot drum, oral string, gong, cymbal and small three strings.
3. Artistic aspects
(1) is good at group dancing, which is enjoyed by men, women and children. There are three kinds of dances: celebration, sacrifice and entertainment. Dance a festive dance after the completion of the new house and the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. Dance a sacrificial dance when offering sacrifices to "Mu Dai" (the most GREAT GHOST in the world) or when the old man sends his soul to the deceased after his death; Productive labor and entertainment and dance after the festival.
(2) Craft: In the art of Jingpo nationality, weaving has distinct national characteristics, and the weaving tools are very simple, but it can weave more than 300 beautiful patterns. Most of the paintings are combined with primitive religion, mostly single-line palindromes and single-line straight lines. There are simple round carvings and bamboo carvings.
4. Jingpo people are mainly engaged in agricultural production, and rice and dry valleys are the main food crops, followed by corn. Before the founding of New China, landlords and rich peasants appeared in Jingpo society, and the mountain officials in the past gradually evolved into feudal lords.
Jingpo people are simple and straightforward, and they are a brave people. They have been hunting in the mountains with adults since childhood, carrying backpacks, long knives around their waist and bronze guns on their shoulders. They are very powerful. Jingpo women are good at weaving and can weave hundreds of colorful patterns, most of which are beautiful and gorgeous. Today, with the reform and opening-up, the poor and backward Jingpo mountain area has seen a prosperous scene.
Extended data:
Jingpo nationality is one of the ethnic minorities in China, and it has its own language and writing. The language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman family of Sino-Tibetan language family, and its five branches belong to Jingpo language branch and Burman language branch respectively. There are Jingpo and Zawa languages, both of which are phonography based on Latin alphabet.
The origin of Jingpo nationality is related to the ancient frontier strongmen on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. There are five branches: Jingpo, in Wawa, Le Chi, Lange and Bora. They mainly live in the mountainous areas of Dehong Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, and a few live in the border area between Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture and Kachin State in Myanmar. Most Kachin branches in Myanmar also have deep roots with Jingpo and Lisu people in China.
References:
Jingpo nationality-Baidu encyclopedia