Dong people can be divided into southern Dong people and northern Dong people. The southern Dong people have exquisite costumes, and women are good at weaving and embroidering. Dong brocade, Dong cloth, flower picking and embroidery are very distinctive.

Women wear collarless clothes with large rows of buttons, and their skirts and cuffs are embroidered with delicate ponytails. The patterns are mainly dragons and phoenixes, with water cloud patterns and flowers and plants patterns in the middle. Short skirts, pleated skirts, shoes with upturned feet.

The bun is decorated with a silver crown with a ring hairpin, a silver hairpin or a dragon and phoenix, and is accompanied by multiple silver collars, earrings, bracelets, waist pendants and other silver ornaments. Dong women in Sanjiang wear robes and short skirts, robes with double-breasted collars, and exquisite lapels and cuffs.

Double-breasted buttons are unbuttoned and slit in the middle, revealing embroidered bibs. A pleated skirt of green cloth, embroidered leggings, flower shoes, a big bun on the head, flowers, wooden combs and silver hairpin.

Men's wear is blue cloth head, stand collar, belt, short vest without buttons, trousers, leggings, sandals or barefoot, with embroidery on lapels.

Dong people's ponytail back fan can be called first-class embroidery, with Gu Zhuo shape, exquisite embroidery, rigorous patterns and rich colors, which fully shows the intelligence and superb skills of Dong women.

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In the past, the materials of Dong costumes were mainly self-spun, self-woven and self-dyed Dong cloth. Since 1980s, woven fine cloth has been widely used, and self-woven Dong cloth has become a gift for relatives and friends.

Dong costumes are diverse, with different decorations at different ages and seasons, such as left hand, right hand and double-breasted buttons. There are cloth buttons, copper buttons and silver buttons; There are pants and skirts; Like green, blue, black and white; There are headdresses, neck ornaments, chest ornaments, waist ornaments, hand ornaments, foot ornaments and so on.

Among them, there are more than 50 kinds of headdresses, mainly silver ornaments, including silver crowns, silver hairpins, silver combs, silver hair chains, silver earrings, silver earrings and tremella threads. When a woman dresses up, she only sees silver. Women's hair styles are quite special, which are divided into four bun, front, back, left and right, or braided on the top of the head, with obvious regional differences.

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