Abstract
Through a great number of fieldwork, this article did a detailed investigation and analysis on the current situation of women’s daily ethnic costumes from the China’s Shui nationality in Shui autonomous county of Sandu in Guizhou Province. Differed from the former researches on the classification of women’s dress from Shui nationality, this article divided the existing women daily dress into three types according to the current situation. Influenced by the geography and surrounding culture, costume of Shui Minority has formed regional characteristics. According to the different location, this article divides the women's ethnic costumes, which are still used as daily wear, into three types: the Central style，the Eastern style and the Southern style. By comparative analysis among the 3 different dressing ways, the paper deeply analyzed the distinguishes of different types of women’s daily ethnic costumes from Shui nationality, and discussed the reasons why differences exist.
Highlights
Through a great number of fieldwork, this article did a detailed investigation and analysis on the current situation of women’s daily ethnic costumes from the China’s Shui nationality in Shui autonomous county of Sandu in Guizhou Province
Shui Nationality is one of the 55 ethnic minorities in China, with more than half of the population living in the Sandu Shui Autonomous County in the southeastern part of Qiannan Buyi and Miao autonomous prefecture, Guizhou Province
Among the few research results on clothing and apparel, the research results of Maweixiu (An unique embroidery of Shui Nationality that use horsetail to be the core of the embroidery threads) are the majority, and there are few researches on clothing and apparel, only some short journals
Summary
Due to geographical discrepancies and mixed residence, there are regional differences among Sandu women’s costumes. According to different areas, this paper divided Shui minority’s costumes as 3 types as follows: Central style: This style is mainly the costumes of the central part of Sandu County, such as Sandong, Zhonghe, Shuilong, Tangzhou, Tingpai, Hengfeng, Zhouyi, Hejiang, Dahe, Sanhe. Southern style: mainly clothing in the southern part of Sandu County, such as clothing in towns such as Jiuqian and Yanggong. The main categories of daily clothing for Shui Nationality women are headscarves, coats, pants, aprons, shoes, bags, and silver ornaments. There are no essential differences, it is the combination of the tops and pants, but there are some differences in the details of different types of clothing, forming different styles of clothing. In the following, according to different types of clothing, this paper has analyzed the similarities and differences of different styles of clothing
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