Chinese National Costume Culture -- The Clothing Culture Of The Luo Ba Nationality

1. General situation of Nationalities

The people of the Republic of China are the least populated country, with only 2 people. It is mainly distributed in the Luo Yu area between the east of Tibet and the west to the gate. It is mainly concentrated in Milin, moto, Sai Yu, Longzi and Lang County, where the forests are dense and the terrain is complex. The world's tallest Himalaya mountains stand on the north side, and the Yarlung Zangbo River and Danba Qu River flows through it, moistening the land that is yet to be reclaimed. It is Tibetan's address to them, meaning southerners. The Luo Ba people living in different regions have different claims and names. The Luo Ba nationality has its own language, no words, and basically uses Tibetan language. Over the years, the LBA people have relied on their oral traditions and handed down their own culture. Mainly engaged in agriculture, and collection and hunting, men brave Wu Shan hunting, knife and arrow carry.

Two. Characteristics Culture

The living habits of the people of the Luo Ba nationality are deeply influenced by the Tibetan people, and their daily diet and food production methods are basically the same as those of the Tibetan farming areas. They are fond of barbecue meat, dried meat, milk dregs and buckwheat cakes. They like to eat rice cooked with corn and stir fried with chili. The rhaba people living in the area of moto and Milin are using the Tibetan calendar. All festivals and sacrifices are not much different from those of Tibetans. But most of the Luo people use their own calendar. Due to the scattered residence and inconvenient transportation, the dates of different festivals are different. Therefore, celebrating the annual festival includes celebrating a bumper harvest and welcoming the old. On the eve of the new year, every family must pound rice to make wine, kill pigs and kill sheep, and wealthy families will slaughter cattle. Many places still retain the ancient custom of "clan gathering". During the festival, the residents of the village should bring their own meat and wine to gather together. The whole village is surrounded by men, women and children, drinking or eating meat, singing and laughing constantly, and doing various recreational activities.

Three. Clothes & Accessories characteristic

The Luo Ba people live in the tens of rivers and basins in the vast area of the Luo Ba area, more than 300 kilometers away from the north and south, about 1000 kilometers east-west, from tropical to temperate, from Plains to mountain areas. Due to the differences of regional climate factors and the acceptance of external influences, this has different dress patterns. Although different gender and age have different needs for dress form, color and decoration, the people of the Republic of Roba are a beauty loving nation, especially women. {page_break}

In the northern mountainous area of Luo Yu, men wore summer knitted blouses, long sleeves and big breasted breats, with two buttons on the right side, and a pair of striped short shorts woven from their own. They wore large robe or homemade buffalo skin from the Tibetan area in winter. Women wear a summer pattern jacket, wear white cloth shorts, winter wear, with a rectangular shape, with a circular shawl in the middle. A small Scimitar and flicker hung on the right side of the waist, and a sharp knife was tied to the waist. Men and women have many silver decorations. They wear all silverware every festival. The waistband is quite fastidious, wide four fingers, there are various designs, dragons and snakes are not missing, five colors, hanging small beads, bronze bell, shells, and let out pleasant sounds. Men and women are barefooted in the four seasons. Wealthy men and women wear silver bracelets and silver necklace. Men and women wear ear rings and wear gold and silver rattan products to show wealth. Men go out with strong bow, with a back arrow, a long sword on the waist, and a bear cap. In Luo Yu's heartland and southern area, traffic is blocked, clothes are still kept in the ancient style, and the clothes are very simple. Men and women Cha Bhai Bbu Khan clothes, bare most of the body, and wear short sleeved blouse in winter. Many villages in the Dong Gong tribe known as the land, such as Guo Bu, RI GA and so on, are covered by a self woven loom with a foot of three feet wide. However, they can see the genitals at any time and use the white thread to tie up the glans to avoid evil. Several tribal men covered the pudendum with grass, brown fur and animal skins. Min Rong and other tribal men use bamboo or gourd sets? * * * * *? This phenomenon is not surprising to the people of the Republic of the Luo nationality who worship the male reproductive organs. In the east of the Luo Yu mountain area, men wear no blouse, and wear red and green shorts. Women wear two cloth buttons, and the lower part covers the waist with cloths, and also uses brown hair as a cover up. Men wear large silver earrings, usually only wearing three strings, each string of 20 beads. The wedding age women wearing lead earrings are the most beautiful.

The styles of the people are diverse. Some tribes have short hair; some are long and loose, and behind them are women with several braids hanging behind their shoulders. Some men and women wear long hair, put them on top of their heads, wear a bamboo stick, and all tropical areas are bald. There are round bowler hat, wearing a round cap, wearing a self-made rattan hat, wearing a bear fur cap, hat on both sides of the front fixed a wild pig tusks, some tribes are also inserted in the cap of a number of roots, birds, Ling, very beautiful.

Luo Ba people attach great importance to mourning clothes, no matter close relatives or distant relatives, can not wear clothes with fur, so that the dead can be regenerated into livestock. Mourning clothes are mostly white, indicating the innocence of the dead.

Hunter clothing has unique characteristics, showing the characteristics of hunting and production. Leather shawls are lightweight and warm, without water penetration and good moisture resistance. Wearing a bear fur cap to protect the snow from rain. Feet in "Li Mu" (Unified) boots The upper and sole are all knitted with "Anu" (Daphne bark) fiber, and it is actually several times longer than modern rubber shoes. A healthy man has been hunting for 40 years, and four pairs of "Li Mu" are enough to wear. Small knives and flicker are indispensable tools for hunting. Skins shorts are soft and warm. When hunting hunters, clothes can not be separated from animal skins, which fully shows that one of the survival targets of this nation is wild animals.

Most of the tribesmen married women consciously drew their faces and crossed each other. They drew two dots on the forehead, and three crosswalk on the lower lip. Use charcoal to draw, then use needles to light, so that black will penetrate into the skin, and will always be marked. LB women in the heartland of Luo Yu see this pattern as the most beautiful. Legend has it that this is also a sign of King Gelsall's punishment for impious people.