Introduction to clothing: The clothing of the Miao people in Shouli advocates simplicity. In the past, they were almost all self-woven, dyed and sewn. Men's clothing is relatively simple. They usually wear a green cloth turban, which is more than ten feet long. The ends of the turban are embroidered with "dog teeth" patterns. They wear belts and double-breasted clothes. Most of the trousers are green or blue, and the trousers have large cuffs for convenience. Work; wear cloth socks and cloth shoes. Women's clothing can be divided into casual clothes, fancy clothes, and age groups. When Miao girls get married or participate in grand festivals, they wear flower braids on their heads, wear silver hats, put silver flowers, silver butterflies, and silver hairpins on the braids, and hang silver in their ears. Ring, silver necklace hanging on the neck, silver corsage hanging on the chest, silver tooth drill, silver sword, silver saber and other large string of silver ornaments connected with silver chain, holding silver ring in hand, wearing silver ring on finger, wearing the edge of chest and cuffs They all have lace-trimmed double-breasted clothes, self-woven lace around the waist, and embroidered shoes; middle-aged and elderly women wear simpler attire, do not wear "flower braids", but wear buns with wooden combs, and their headbands are shorter than those of young women. some. There are many styles of children's hats, including "cat head hat", "dog head hat", "toad hat", "fish tail hat", etc. There are silver "Eighteen Arhats" and the words "Long Life and Wealth" on the front of the hat, and the back of the hat hangs There are silver bells; the waist is embroidered with "holding belly", the feet are wearing "cat-head shoes", and there are exquisite patterns on the back of the clothes.

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