Traditional Ethnic Costumes Of Dai People In Yunnan

Yunnan

It can be divided into four types: Xishuangbanna type, Dehong type, Yuanjiang Xinping type, Yuanyang Honghe Jinping type and so on.

Dai women in Xishuangbanna are wearing white, scarless sleeveless sling, pair of tight underwear, outer scarf or narrow collar sleeves.

The lower part is a long skirt wrapped in black or flower colors. The two ends of the whole piece of cloth are joined by a "bucket" shape. The rest part is folded to the waist and fastened with a silver belt.

This kind of uniform skirt is relatively close to the waist and buttocks, while the foot position is relaxed and free, which does not impede walking, and is conducive to ventilation, heat and frequent washing.

Hairstyles, whether old or young, are all turned into bun, decorated with hairpins and hairpins, or fragrant flowers and bright silk flowers.

When you go out, you would like to carry the self-made tube handkerchief to support the traditional flat flower umbrella.

This dignified and lively decoration and short and long tight clothes make the Dai women look tall and slender.

Nowadays, with the entry of colorful and soft fabrics, women's costumes are becoming more and more colorful. Especially during the water splashing Festival, the women dressed up are like flowers, clusters and clusters in the meeting hall.

The men's wear is a white collar shirt with long sleeves, worn with light blue or white and red Baotou, and decorated with colored silk at the end.

Affected by the neighboring Burma border, the men also wore skirts and skirts, but instead of girdling them, they tied the rest of the rest to the front of the abdomen, commonly known as "cage base".

Dai women in Yingjiang, Longchuan and Liang He areas in Dehong wore short scarlet T-shirts before wearing their trousers, waist trousers, embroidered waists and comb plaits on top of their heads.

After marriage, they can send and receive clothes easily, wear a black or white blouse and black skirt, and wrap the towel on top.

After entering middle age, they wear high cap made of black cloth.

The women's clothing on the Ruili River is much the same as that of Xishuangbanna.

There are many Dai ethnic groups in Yuanjiang and Xinping. They are mainly Dai Zhong, Dai La, Dai Zhang and Dai Le branch of Yuanjiang, Xinping's Dai Ya and Dai Shu branch.

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Dai Ya women wear the edge of the top of the bamboo hat, the waist is exquisite small colorful waist basket, the two became the "flower waist Dai" symbol.

The Dai costumes of Yuanyang and Honghe are very similar. They are divided into winter and summer. In summer, the jackets are black round necklaces and short sleeves (long sleeves in winter). The sleeves are made of cotton cloth. The edges of the skirts, hem, cuffs and armpits are all embroidered lace with different width. They are worn down to the black skirts of the knees, and the embroidered feet are geometrically shaped, flower shaped or written (Fu, Shou, Xi, etc.).

Baotou is black. The top of the forehead is decorated with a ten inch wide multicolored embroidery. The ends of the triangle are exposed vertically.

At the end of the Baotou, two of the unmarried people are multicolored embroidery, which hangs behind their heads.

Jinping Dai women wear long white sleeves, button shaped silver buckles, under long skirts and waist or green or red ribbons.

Hairstyle or plate bun, or plate braid.