The clothing patterns of various branches of Hani nationality have a wide range of themes and rich connotations, which not only depict natural landscapes, but also yearn for a happy life. There are both totems of belief worship and records of migration history, which can be called the essence of Hani culture.
Pray for good luck.
The Hani children's hat with tassels in Jinping County is sewn into a hat shape with black soil cloth. The brim of the hat is embroidered with red silk thread and decorated with silver bells, tassels and small cloth bags to ward off evil spirits. It is said that it can avoid the harassment of ghosts at night.
Hani children's hats in Yuanyang county are decorated with colorful pompoms, pendulous silver chains and silver coins, expressing the mother's deep affection for her children and praying for the gods to bless their good luck and peace.
Lancang county, also known as women's headdress, has a big black ribbon, covered with silver bubbles and embroidery, with flowers in front and red feathers behind. According to ancient myths and legends, heaven is red, the world is black, and Baotou with red feathers on its head will be blessed by the gods.
Record (the) history.
Patterns that record history are generally used in mourning, such as the headdress of women's shroud in Anluozhi, Yuanyang County. The whole brim is embroidered with colored silk thread in a tree pattern, which represents the migration and development history of Hani ancestors, so that the deceased can return to the ancestral holy land along this route.
The hat-brim pagoda represents three layers of people in Hani history, namely officials, Mopi and craftsmen. The circular pattern on the top of the hat is the sky, with ladders on both sides. The tassel behind the hat symbolizes the three levels of heaven, earth and earth.
Natural landscape
The costumes of Hani women have different patterns because of their different places of residence. For example, women's dresses of Nuobi and Nuomei in Yuanyang County and Jinping County are all black indigo-dyed underwear, and only blue seams, piping, mountain shapes, ripples, triangles, sawtooth shapes, bracken shapes and diamonds are embroidered on the waist, hem, cuffs and brim, which are solemn and elegant.
The dress patterns of Hani girls in Yuanyang are embroidered with red, blue, green and white threads into gun butts, octagons, concave, wavy, heart-shaped, plaid, stripes, ripples and sawtooth patterns. The whole sleeve is made of red, yellow, blue and white cloth, and the cuffs are embroidered back to shape. Leggings are patched with colored fabrics, and water ripples are embroidered between the colored fabrics.
At the same time, Hani costumes have also been rated as intangible cultural heritage in Yunnan Province.