tour-guiding in colorful yunnan

Tour-guiding in Colorful Yunnan

Costumes of Ethnic Nationalities

Costumes of Ethnic NationalitiesQ. 1 What are the features/categories of CEN?

2 What factors influence their costumes?

Tour-guiding in Colorful Yunnan

Costumes of Ethnic Nationalities

Features: colorful and unique,

3 categories ＞ their distribution and climate.

1. hot regions: light, thin, short and tight clothes. The Dai, the Hani, the Bulang and the Achang people.ect

Dai women:

light red tight vests/short-sleeved overcoats/colorful tight skirts with a silvery waistband. Coil their hair up

Costumes of Ethnic Nationalities

collarless jackets with buttons in the middle, or loose short jackets/long trousers, with white, blue or red turbans.

Dai men:

2. flatlands : light and practical clothes.

e.g. The Bai people regard white as an honorable color and like to wear white clothes.

Costumes of Ethnic Nationalities

Bai Men :

white coats with black vests.

Costumes of Ethnic Nationalities

Bai Women:white or blue jackets with black or blue vests.

Unmarried women: have a pigtail, or beautiful headdresses that show the four famous scenes in Dali

Costumes of Ethnic Nationalities

4 scenes: the flowers/Shangguan, the wind/Xiaguan, the snow/the Cangshang Mountain and the moon reflected in the Erhai Lake.

Costumes of Ethnic Nationalities

3. cold areas: heavy and loose clothes: the Tibetan, the Naxi, the Pumi and the Lisu people in northwestern Yunnan.

Costumes of Ethnic Nationalities

Costumes of Ethnic Nationalities

The Tibetan people’s long gowns, leather hats.

Naxi women: coats with loose sleeves and buttons on the right, vests, long trousers and pleated aprons, or a goat-felt cape on the shoulders with the patterns of seven embroidered circles→diligence and hard working.

Costumes of Ethnic Nationalities

seven embroidered circles

diligence and hard working.

Costumes of Ethnic Nationalities

Their religious beliefs/revealed in their costumes.

e.g. tiger is the totem of the Yi nationality. The Yi people in some regions: hats and shoes embroidered with different patterns of tigers.

Costumes of Ethnic Nationalities

Costumes of Ethnic Nationalities

While the Samei girls in Kunming, a branch of the Yi nationality, wear rooster-crown-shaped hats, which indicate their worship for roosters.

Costumes of Ethnic Nationalities

Mosuo women: long hair tied into a bun and red, green and black garments and white folding skirts with colorful sashes tied round their waists.

Costumes of Ethnic Nationalities

Before 13 years old, they usually wear long gowns. After the initiation ceremony at the age of 13, men wear trousers and women wear skirts.

Costumes of Ethnic Nationalities