Today I would like to introduce traditional dress for ethnic Oroqen, Ewenki, Dongxiang and Tu people.
12. Ethnic Oroqen
The Oroqen people used to live on hunting. The long history of hunting life influenced the creation of their unique dressing culture. Clothing of the Oroqens, including hats, shoes and socks, are made of animal skins, of which the roe deer skin takes an important position. The clothing for summer, autumn and spring are made of skins of roe deer captured in summer, which is characterized by sparseness and shortness of its fur. The skin of the winter roe is made into winter dress. The leggings, which are worn by men and women, are made of two or three kinds of skins. Some leggings have laces on them and are fastened at the waist with a leather rope. It can protect the trousers when they are hunting or cutting firewood. The leather trousers are made of skins of roe deer captured in autumn or winter. Fur clothes were convenient for wearers to climb mountains and go through forests. However, now that they have entered a modern life and cloth has taken the place of fur, they only dress themselves in fur clothes in some important occasions, such as festivals.
13. Ethnic Ewenki
Due to the different occupation they engage in, the costume of the Ewenki people vary. Herdsmen often wear loose cloth buttoned down on one side. In winter, they wear jackets and pants made of long haired, thick rawhide, together with boots, hats and gloves all made from animal skin. Men's hats are conical, with red tassels on the top, and the surface sewn with blue cloth. Women's headdresses are made by stringing together two black-cloth tubes decorated with silver laces. Ornaments like earrings, fingerings and bracelets are also part of the Ewenkis' traditional dress.
14. Ethnic Dongxiang
The Dongxiang people’s traditional costumes are very different from what they are wearing today. In the past, most of the men’s clothes were large gowns, belts with dagger and tobacco pouch hanging on it. Women had their coats with wide sleeves, embroidered wristband and collars. Even the cuffs of their trousers have embroidery on them. On festivals, they often wore embroidered dress, embroidered high-heel shoes, with all kind of silver adornment in their hair and in front of them. But in recent decades, their garment and adornment have changed a lot, and are becoming similar to those of native Hui. Generally, men have white or black horn caps, white shirt, black vest and large blue trousers. Women have veils, which are long enough to reach their waists and cover their hair. Usually, the maid and newly-married women have green veils; the frail and middle-aged women have blue ones; and the old women have white ones. Young women love wearing red or green clothes, with large coat and vest, and their trousers, mostly blue, are long enough to reach the ground.15. Ethnic Tu
The clothes of the Tu people are unique in their colors and styles. Both men and women wear delicately embroidered clothes with high collars.
Tu men like to wear dark robes on top of a white short gown, with a green waistband and a felt hat. Felt hats with brocade brims are popular.
Women's clothes are more colorful than men's. Their usual costume is a short jacket with buttons down the side, with a black sleeveless garment worn outside. Their jackets have sleeves made up of cloth in the five colors of the rainbow: red, yellow, green, blue and violet. Young women often wear colorful skirts in reds while middle-aged women prefer blue ones.
