Traditional Dress in China 8

Today I would like to introduce traditional dress for ethnic Salar, Bonan, Yugur, Kazak and Qiang  people.   

16. Ethnic Salar

Women like to wear kerchiefs on their heads and black sleeveless jackets over clothes in striking red colors. They are good at embroidery and often stitch flowers in five different colors onto their pillowcases, shoes and socks. Men wear flat-topped brimless hats of either black or white colors, and wear sheepskin coats without linings and woolen clothing in winter. 

17. Ethnic Bonan

Bonan men wear white jackets with buttons down the front, black sleeveless jackets, long trousers, and brimless flat black or white round cloth caps. They wear robes with buttons on the front-right, along with long waistbands and broadswords on festive occasions, as well as top hats and long riding boots. Women wear jackets with buttons on the front-right, long or short-bordered sleeveless jackets and long trousers. The front rims and lower hems of the jackets, and the bottoms of the trousers are decorated with veins and patterns. They prefer head kerchiefs, with green ones for young women, black ones for married women and white ones for elderly women.

18. Ethnic Yugur

The Yugurs have their own peculiar way of dressing. A typical well-dressed man sports a felt hat, a high-collared long gown buttoned on the left, a red-blue waist band and high boots. A woman of marriageable age combs her hair into many small pigtails which are tied up into three big ones, with two thrown over the chest and one over the back after marriage. The women usually wear a trumpet-shaped white felt hat with two black lines in front, topped by red tassels.

19. Ethnic Kazak 

In winter, the Kazak men usually wear sheepskin shawls, and some wear overcoats padded with camel hair, with a belt decorated with metal patterns at the waist and a sword hanging at the right side. The trousers are mostly made of sheepskin. Women wear red dresses and in winter they don cotton-padded coats, buttoned down the front. Girls like to sport embroidered cloth leggings bedecked with silver coins and other silver ornaments, which jangle as they walk. Girls used to decorate their flower-patterned hats with owl feathers, which waved in the breeze. All the women wear white-cloth shawls, embroidered with red-and-yellow designs.

20. Ethnic Qiang 

The Qiangs dress themselves simply but beautifully. Men and women alike wear gowns made of gunny cloth, cotton and silk with sleeveless sheep's wool jackets. They like to bind their hair and legs. Women's clothing is laced and the collars are decorated with plum-shaped silver ornaments. They wear sharp-pointed and embroidered shoes, embroidered girdles and earrings, neck rings, hairpins and silver badges.