Clothing characteristics
Yi men and women wear "Chaerwa" and "Peta". The Yi name of "Chaerwa" is "Wala", which looks like a cloak. Woven with coarse wool, generally 13, each seven or eight centimeters wide, and most of them are dyed dark blue.
St. Chahar is the most beautiful area, with red and yellow edges and blue interlining, and a 30-cm-long rope spike hanging below. The felt is made of about two kilograms of wool, as thin as copper coins, and folded into 6 cm wide folds. Generally, it is 30-90 fold, and the top is closed with wool rope.
Mostly primary colors or blue. Chaerwa and felt are necessary clothes for Yi people, men, women and children. They are clothes during the day and quilts at night to protect them from rain and snow.
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Characteristics of different regions:
1, Chuxiong Yi costumes
This kind of clothing is mainly popular in counties and surrounding areas of Wei Chu, Yunnan. This is the place where the ancient Yi people migrated. At present, it belongs to the intersection of six dialects: East Yi, South Yi, West Yi, North Yi and Middle Yi, so the costumes are particularly colorful.
Generally speaking, wearing right-handed tops and trousers is the basic style of modern women's wear. There are many floral decorations on blouses, with moire and cherry blossoms as the main patterns, which are mostly decorated on specific parts of blouses such as the chest and shoulders. Technology is generally patchwork and peaceful embroidery.
Generally speaking, women's headdresses can be divided into three categories: Baotou and wearing embroidered hats. If subdivided, there are more than 40 kinds, and each kind of headdress often becomes the symbol of Yi people in a certain area.
Men's wear is becoming more and more China-like and fashionable, but there are still many areas where the customs of wearing sheepskin, burning grass and burning hemp are preserved, which are rare in other areas of Yi costumes.
2. Liangshan Yi costumes
Popular in Sichuan, Yunnan, Liangshan and the adjacent Jinsha River. Both men's and women's coats are right-handed with big breasts, and the Yi men in Liangshan area still retain the ancient inheritance. There is a lock of long hair in front of their heads, which symbolizes the dignity of men and is inviolable. Yi people are commonly known as "Buddha of Heaven".
Yi men in Liangshan, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places like to wrap their heads in blue cloth or blue cloth and tie a long conical knot on their foreheads to show their heroic spirit, commonly known as "hero knot".
According to archaeological findings, this headdress was found on a shell container unearthed from the tomb of King Dian of Han Dynasty in Shizhai, Jinning, Yunnan. It can be seen that "hero knot" is a rather primitive tradition.
In addition, the wearing made of fine beef tendon (used to hang combat knives in ancient times) is called "hero belt"; Some left ears wear ornaments such as beeswax beads and tremella rings, and the bottoms are pants, but there are large, medium and small trouser legs because of different regions.
Unmarried girls wear all kinds of headscarves, and women wear hats or headscarves after childbirth, all of which are black; Women have earrings such as penguin, silver, coral and jade shell in their ears, and wear a silver collar tag around their necks; Pleated skirts with layers of colorful cloth around them are often very long and easy to drag. The upper part fits the figure and the lower part is pleated, which not only highlights the female figure, but also adds a bit of graceful posture.
Due to the steep mountains and cold climate, the local Yi people use blankets to protect themselves, commonly known as "Xi 'erwa". Selva is a shawl made of wool, which is white, gray and blue. The upper part is narrowed with wool rope, and the lower part is decorated with about 0 whiskers. 3 3 meters long.
It usually takes several months to make a wiping tile. Yi people's shingles never leave their bodies all year round, keeping out the cold during the day and covering them at night, which is a symbol of Liangshan Yi people's clothing.
Traditional fabrics are mainly wool and hemp, and they like to use black, red and yellow. Traditional patterns, such as head sickle, claw and vortex, are often made by picking, embroidering, embedding and dyeing.
Liangshan, large and small, has steep mountains and rivers. In the past, traffic was blocked and there was little contact with the outside world. Its costumes are simple and unique, completely retaining the traditional style of the Yi people, which is in the same strain as the Yi costumes painted on the wall of Huo's tomb in Zhaotong, Eastern Jin Dynasty.
3. Yi costumes in western Yunnan
This kind of clothing is mainly popular in Dali, Simao, Lincang, Baoshan and other places in western Yunnan. Women's coats are mostly right-breasted, short in front and long in back, with waistband, waist and waist. Women's clothing in mountainous areas between Weishan County and Midu County is rich and colorful, with many embroidered patterns and embroidered felt wrapped on their backs. Other areas are more concise and elegant.
Its headdress is either wearing a cloth hat or a green handkerchief, which is decorated with colorful tassels, beads and other ornaments. There is quite a gorgeous legacy of Nanzhao royal family. In the past, men wore right robes, wide-leg pants, a green handkerchief, a belt around their waist or a leather belly, but now they are more fashionable.
4. Honghe Yi costumes
This kind of dress is mainly popular in Honghe area in southern Yunnan, with Jianshui, Shiping and Yuanyang counties as the most typical ones. Women's clothing is colorful, from long skirts with big skirts to robes and short gowns. They usually wear trousers, vests and aprons. The headdress is dazzling, mostly decorated with silver bubbles or wool.
Clothing color is extremely strong, always use matching contrast color, bright and decorative; Natural patterns are the most geometric patterns, followed by geometric patterns. Men's wear is not much different from other places.
5. Yi costumes in Wumeng Mountain
This kind of dress is popular in Zhenxiong, Yiliang and Weixin counties in Zhaotong, Yunnan, and Yi people's settlements in Bijie, Liupanshui, Xuyong and Longlin, Guangxi. Wumeng Mountain is the birthplace of ancient southwest Yi culture. In the past, Yi costumes were basically the same as Liangshan Yi costumes, and clothing styles have changed greatly since Ming and Qing Dynasties.
At present, Yi men and women in Yunnan usually wear blue robes and trousers with big breasts and right breasts, black or white headscarves, white cloth belts and embroidered "kite shoes". Men's clothes have no patterns, and they often wear wool and felt when they go out.
The neckline, cuffs, hem, hem and trouser legs of women's wear are decorated with colorful patterns and combination patterns. Commonly known in Chinese as "hanging with four pillars on the back", the head is wrapped in a green handkerchief as a human figure, and silver ornaments such as Dai Lezi, earrings, bracelets and rings are used. After marriage, earrings are replaced by earrings, which are white or embroidered with flowers hanging behind them.
In some areas, Yi women wear short skirts and long skirts. Liangshan, large and small, has steep mountains and rivers. In the past, traffic was blocked and there was little contact with the outside world. Its costumes are simple and unique, completely retaining the traditional style of the Yi people, which is in the same strain as the Yi costumes painted on the wall of Huo's tomb in Zhaotong, Eastern Jin Dynasty.
6. Yi costumes in central and southeastern Yunnan.
Mainly popular in Kunming, Wenshan and parts of Honghe Prefecture adjacent to these two areas.
The main styles of women's wear are right-breasted or double-breasted tops, trousers and skirts. With white, blue and black as the background, decorated with animal and plant patterns and geometric patterns. Its headdress varies greatly from place to place.
Some young Yi women in Kunming are wearing "cockscomb hats", which are shaped like cockscombs and embroidered with various silver bubbles, with fine workmanship. Older women usually wear a bun.
Hairband, the headdress of unmarried women in Guishan area, is decorated with a pair of triangular embroidered cloth ornaments at the ear, and a string of beads is hung from the back of the head to the chest. Yi women in Maitreya and some areas south of Lu 'an wrap their heads in black with double braids, leaving a bunch of hair hanging behind their heads and decorating them with beads, silver chains, shells and wool.
In Wenshan, Xichou, Maguan, Funing and other places, women wear black scarves or top-flowered handkerchiefs with simple headdresses, while in Qiubei, Kaiyuan and Luxi, women's headdresses are rich, including silver bubbles, wool balls, flowers and shells. This type of men usually wear a pair of double-breasted clothes, a coat with vest and wide pants, and some people also wear leggings and a black scarf on their heads.
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