Black Dress With Black As Its Beauty: Black As Clothing Color And National Symbol.

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Zhuang is a branch of the Zhuang nationality, mainly inhabited in Napo County, Guangxi.

The Zhuang nationality, known as "Min", has been living in remote and barren mountain areas for a long time, and has followed the original customs of ethnic groups in terms of marriage, religion, production and life.

They worship black, take black as the color of clothing and national symbol. This "black beauty" nation is known as the "living fossil" of the Zhuang nationality by unique ethnics and customs.

 

Miss Zhuang in black dress

Recently, I had the privilege of approaching the black dress in the Baiyun Mountain, and I felt the different styles of the black and Zhuang people.

At the front desk of the hotel where I stayed, I had the advertising materials for "black Zhuang Zhuang style garden". I answered the phone and responded enthusiastically.

Since the "Customs garden" must be similar to a park, I take it for granted.

So I picked up my luggage briefly, and after a short rest, I drove to the black dress style garden.

 

Hei Zhuang's beautiful hometown

The garden called "Tun Li Tun" is the pliteration of Zhuang language.

When I arrived at the customs garden, I saw a long wall formed by the rock, and there was a garden arch door in the middle, passing through the stone arches.

The original "black clothes Zhuang style garden" is also a natural village with black clothes and strong people living together.

 

Men in black clothes

The most visible part of the traditional tribe of black clothing is black.

And accessories.

According to a long term study by the scholars of Hei Zhuang in Napo County, the black coat is marked by "black" as the mark of wear and the mark of the nation. First of all, it is related to the provisions of the chieftain system in history. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, when the chieftain ruled the Zhuang people, all the native people were allowed to wear black and blue colors. Secondly, the legends of the origin of the black clothes decided the formation and continuity of the clothes of the black clothes.

 

Black clothes Zhuang people

Hei Zhuang still has a tradition of wearing black. The main reason is that the aesthetics of "beauty is black" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

At the same time, the practicality and style of the wearer are combined with the elegant and beautiful style to perfect the connotation of the clothing culture of Hei Zhuang Zhuang.

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At Tun Kou, I found that many black and Zhuang girls were welcoming visitors from all over the country.

Women's clothing is more distinctive. No matter how young or old, they like to wear a tight short coat with a right top and a gourd shaped short legged neck. The lower part is matched with trousers with wide trouser legs and trousers, waist is a large apron made of black cloth, and a black cloth scarf is worn.

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It is both wide and long. When worn, it can wear a circle around the bottom of the skirt. The skirt is lowered to the lower leg. The apron can be used not only for decoration, but also for putting the skirt angle up to the front waist to show the beauty of the chic.

 

Black and strong women

According to legend, in China, Zhuang nationality was the first person to master textile technology.

Women's headscarves are also made of long black cloth dyed with their own dyed fabrics, and ornaments such as silver hairpins and silver chains make them black and bright.

The silver collars worn by the black clothes strong women are made of fish at both ends, like Pisces to the kiss.

The double fish pair of silver collars is a necessary thing for the black clothes and strong women to marry. It shows that the black clothes are strong and the fish totem worship.

 

Napo scenery

The most beautiful ornaments in Hei Zhuang women's wear are head flowers.

Women should wear bun after adulthood, insert work hairpins, head cages, head forks and head flowers, and use Yuhuan beads to twist the head flowers. There are usually six flower heads, unmarried young women or married but not yet laid off families.

There are more accessories in black and Zhuang women. Earrings, earrings, jade beads, necklaces, necklaces, bracelets and rings are all essential. Most of them come from family or family money.

The most interesting part is that most women like to set their own incisors into gold to show their beauty and their status and status.

 

The black clothes are dancing.

The men in the black coat wear the front coat and the trousers with wide trouser legs and trousers.

This dress is convenient for them to work and to walk in the mountains.

Traditional men's clothes are also wrapped in black cloth scarves on the top of their heads, with a red cloth or red ribbon around their waist to show their exorcism.

 

Hei Zhuang's beautiful hometown

When it comes to why black clothes are beautiful, there is a myth in it: there are alien races in ancient times, and "black clothes Zhuang" rise to resist, but because of their strength and strength, they are losing their lives.

That night, chief Nong Lao FA dreamed that his ancestors had a bunch of Lonicera grass and said to him, "it can help you."

Nong Lao came to realize it, and immediately passed on: the whole nation dyed the clothes black with blue indigo. It was night, and all the people were black under the cover of darkness. They attacked the enemy troops and killed the enemy.

The clansmen of the victory defend their homeland unanimously decide that they have brought auspicious black clothes from generation to generation.

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Visit the hometown of black coat Zhuang, and attract their buildings.

A small row of rows of rows of rows of small wooden houses on the hills near the mountains.

Their homes were built of wood and stone in three stories, with double sloping roofs.

Although this kind of dwellings can also be seen in other ethnic minority areas of southern China, it is rare to build a uniform style in the same area as those living on the slopes of Hei Zhuang.

 

Black clothes Zhuang Tun Li Tun

The village is very clean, the paved pavements, the houses are newly decorated, and the houses of the black and strong people are supported by the strong stone pillars that are polished. The buildings are built in wood and are concave.

The animals are stocked below and live on them.

The internal structure of the house is also very similar. The latter part of the house is the bedroom, the front half is very spacious, without any separation, the left side is the kitchen, the middle is the dining hall, and the right is the living room.

A piece of vegetable plot is surrounded by stones next to the house. All kinds of vegetables are gratifying, green and oily.

I took the camera and walked and patted it.

The adults in the Tuen Mun are very enthusiastic. They will invite me to their home for dinner. You can go to any one in tun Li at random. They will passionately pour tea stools and answer your questions seriously.

Their enthusiasm made us feel a warmth away from home.

 

Children in black clothes

The life of the black and strong people is self-sufficient, the food and vegetables that they grow, the poultry and livestock that they raise, the clothes and trousers and shoes made of their own woven fabrics.

In a living room with black clothes, I saw a piece of cotton cloth woven from my own, which was made of white and pure flowers. Of course, most of them were black. They were very delicate. They also had some hand made cloth shoes and back pockets. The black cloth was embroidered with flowers and plants.

Although the living environment is hard, in my eyes, hardworking people and life are rich.

No matter adults or children, there is a smile of satisfaction and quiet on their faces.

Every household stove is covered with salted pork and smoked bacon with the heat of firewood.

Such self-sufficient life is very interesting in my eyes.

 

Black clothes and strong feelings

The black coat Zhuang is an ethnic group that can sing and dance.

In the middle of the village there is a new singing and dancing arena. Whenever there are foreign tourists, the black clothes and strong people are dressed in black clothes. They follow the summons of drums and come out from their dry wooden blocks to rush to the simple playground in the village.

This scene is like a group of black butterflies flying out of the woods, towards the blooming flowers, and the whole village has become beautiful and magical.

 

The girl in black is playing the harp.

They perform red dance, birthday dance, black gun dance, pound dance and unity dance for tourists.

These dances are all derived from their lives, some of which reflect their war against alien invasions; others reflect their etiquette of receiving people; they reflect their respect for the elderly; some reflect their joy in making new clothes and preparing to meet their lovers.

Although the actors did not undergo professional training, they expressed a kind of simple feelings with skilled dance steps. The charm of the mountains was vividly interpreted through their energetic dance.

It is said that in the villages of some black clothes and strong communities in Napo County, from 3 years old to old people, they can dance with ancient music.

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In the mountains, a mountain is surrounded by dark stones. "Nine stones and one soil" is a true portrayal of their living environment.

There is no inn for strangers in the village, but the enthusiastic black and White Zhuang people welcome you to live in any family.

Hei Zhuang is still living in traditional festivals such as two, February, three, May five and June six in March.

In the traditional festivals such as "romantic festival", the young men and women who have opened their hearts to meet each other under a hundred years old trees or on the big lawn. The red and American belt is an important token and mascot for the young men and women of the Zhuang nationality. The red beauty belt with their own birthday is thrown into the big dustpan. After being stirred, each person draws one himself, and the red and beautiful belt is written in the name of your dream lover.

 

Black girl

Young men and women love each other through "red line", singing love songs and exchanging gifts.

The song contained the ideal of life of the black coat, and flowed with their brilliant and colorful history and culture, reflecting their perseverance, optimism, simplicity and diligence.

 

Scenery of Napo, Baise, Guangxi

Hei Zhuang has strictly implemented the system of intermarriage, but forbids consanguineous marriage.

The main reason is to abide by the traditional legacy of ancestors, in order to preserve the pure tradition of "pure black".

For thousands of years, almost isolated living environment is also the reason for the long-standing existence of their intermarriage.

So far, black and White Zhuang young men and women like to find objects in Ben Tun Village.

Although young men and women can freely love affairs through singing customs, etc., marriage must be approved by their parents, through a series of etiquette such as media recruitment, confirmation, and money.

The wedding is strange and interesting. The wedding takes place at night. When the bride leaves the house, her father and his brother can not see him go out.

When the bride goes out, she can not look back at her mother's house, nor can she go back.

Otherwise, it is regarded as a sign of ill will.

When the bride arrives at the man's house and goes through the door, he can only eat a little bit of food to the bridal chamber.

At midnight, when the cock crows, the bride must quietly return to her mother's home with the bridesmaid.

 

Sisters

Since then, every month, from the man's sister or sister to the woman's home to pick up the bride to the man's home helper for two to three days, after two or three days' stay, the bride returns to her mother's home to live with her parents and brothers.

If it is three to five years, until the bride is pregnant, she will have children, and the bride will settle down to the man's home.

 

Black Zhuang style

Nowadays, many young people in Hei Zhuang are usually dressed more casually, from the original "black" to the so-called "second generations of black and white headscarves".

But when the traditional festival celebrations or outsiders come to visit, they still dress very seriously, and dress and adornment meticulously.

Especially girls need to dress up or dress up with each other.