Abstract
The Li nationality costume not only has practical value, but also has very high aesthetic value. In the long historical process, Li ethnic costume has experienced a long development and evolution process, which embodies inevitable trend of our times. The Li nationality costume expresses that the Li people advocate the aesthetic meanings of nature, history, and life of the body. It has a lot of symbolism meanings and contains many connotations that could not be explained now. This paper conducts an in-depth analysis about some external factors of the origin and development of Li nationality costume, including geography environment, production technology and foreign cultures. By combining modern costume design, this paper points out the meanings of inheriting and carrying forward traditional costume culture.
Highlights
“Diaochan” is made of two cloths to cover men’s genitals, which looks like the present briefs
Because there are a lot of gullies, springs and rivers, in mountainous areas, women would wear middle-long or short skirt for the convenience of work, such as Xiao Li and Run Li
The skirt wore by Run Li women in Baisha county is the shortest, about 30 centimeters long, with the shortest to be only 24 centimeters
Summary
The weather of Hainan Island is very hot and land there is fertile and is alkali, which is suitable for the growth of ceiba and hemp. The Li people utilized various weaving tools to gin, spring cotton, spin lines, paint colors, tidy up texture, weave and embroider They could make colorful baldachin, decoration cloth, embroidery piece, and canister skirt and flower band. Meifu Li women from Dongfang County would wear big collar symmetrical front coat and painted knitting long canister skirt. They would coil up their long hair all behind their head and wear black and white strip head handkerchief. Sai Li women from Baoting County would wear straight collar big front coat with narrow sleeve and tight shape They would wear knitted flower long canister skirt and flower shoes. He will wear copper chaplet and bracelet to keep away the ghosts
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