Maonan Costume

Maonan Costume

The clothes of Maonan people are basically the same as those of Han and Zhuang people nearby. In the past, men and women of Maonan Nationality liked to wear blue or cyan cardigans and cardigans. Men wear Tang costume or Pipa jacket. Women wear very beautiful right cardigan with two laces. The trousers are wide and with lace rolling. The cuffs and trouser legs of women's clothes are decorated with red or blue or black stripes, and there is no skirt. Braid your hair in a bun. Wear bracelets, silver and other accessories. Both men and women wear blue and blue. Don't wear white clothes except for funerals. Maonan women also especially like to wear bamboo hat "top cover flower", which used to be worn by newly married women to visit relatives.

General introduction

Maonan Nationality is a traditional agricultural nationality, mainly distributed in the mountainous areas of Huanjiang, Hechi, Nandan and Du'an in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. In the past, almost every family had a wood spinning car and a loom, and they planted indigo grass, spun, woven and dyed homespun cloth to make various kinds of clothing. Maonan girls have to learn spinning and weaving since childhood. The level of weaving technology and the amount of cloth woven are the standards to measure their wisdom and ability.

Basic characteristics

According to gender, age, seasonal use and social status, Maonan costumes form various types and patterns. They are usually divided into coats (guqinban in Maonan language), women's clothes (gulebei). Young people's clothes (gulejie), children's clothes (gulejie) and old people's clothes (gulelao). According to season and usage, clothes worn in winter are called guqinban "Gunianxiang" refers to the clothes worn in summer, and "guniantu" refers to the clothes worn at weddings, visiting relatives and friends, wearing "gubaiban" refers to "gufeigong" refers to the clothes worn at home and working in the field, and so on.

Characteristics of men's wear

Men's clothing is called five button clothing, which is also the same as women's clothing. It has five bright copper buttons, which means five button clothing. One collar button, three on the right front, vertically opposite to the collar button, and one on the navel. The lower part is open, and the pocket is the same as women's clothing, which is sewn in the right front without exposure. The headband is about eight feet long and is regularly wrapped around the head from left to right. One end of the headband is covered with cloth whiskers, and the top of the headband is covered with black headband. In Maonan, it is called "hanging claw". The waistband is wrapped with eight feet long black belt. The two ends of the belt are inlaid with red, yellow, blue and white wool or serrated cloth whiskers. When wrapping the waist, the colored cloth whiskers are exposed at both ends. Under the belt, wide trousers are worn, and black cloth shoes are worn.

Characteristics of women's wear

The most important feature of women's wear is the right cardigan and rolled trousers with three yellow lace. From the collar to the skirt, there is black lace. There are big and small lace. It's as big as a chopstick head, and it takes less work to set large lace. It's easier to sew. Small lace is as small as a match stalk. It's finely sewn by hand, and it looks exquisite and beautiful. Women's trousers are also set with three black lace at the bottom of trousers, and the lace size should be the same as the coat. They wear silver bracelets or jade bracelets on their hands, embroidered shoes on their feet, and exquisite "top cloth flower" (bamboo hat) on their shoulders and backs.

Dress color

Men's and women's clothing colors like blue and blue, and seldom wear yellow and white. Only the filial piety clothes are sewn with white cloth. It is forbidden to wear white clothes. When a filial man or woman wears white clothes and wants to enter another house, he or she should take off the white clothes and white towel outside the door before entering the house. Otherwise, the owner thinks the omen is not good.

The Maonan people cherish their clothes (especially the close fitting clothes), which are called "itself", which means "soul" in Chinese. Therefore, the clothes they wear should not be thrown away, for fear that other people will take their souls and bring diseases. Women should not show their breasts.

Manufacturing materials

Maonan brocade, brocade crafts. It is popular in Huanjiang area of Guangxi. Make quilt cover, carry heart, hang bag, etc. It is woven with cotton thread, various colored velvet thread and soil machine. The patterns include star anise, censer, border mole and Phoenix. The geometric pattern is brocade.