Dongxiang Costume

Dongxiang Costume

Dongxiang's costumes are similar to Hui's, but their characteristics are also quite obvious. Men usually wear flat topped brimless hats in black and white. They wear white shirts, black shoulders and blue trousers. The elderly wear black, gray and white. In winter, they wear sheepskin jacket without cloth.

With the change of life style in modern society, Dongxiang People's clothes are also changing and developing towards popularization. Young people like to wear new fashion, and some old clothes are gradually disappearing.

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Dongxiang's clothing is similar to Hui's clothing, but its characteristics are also quite obvious. Dongxiang women wear "false sleeve" top, under wear "too beautiful" flower skirt, foot board wood bottom high heel embroidered shoes. Men wear wide robes, belts and waist knives, which are similar to those of Mongolian men. In recent decades, some changes have taken place in Dongxiang People's clothing, which is mainly manifested in the headdress, that is, young women wear green headsets, middle-aged women wear blue headsets, and old women wear white headsets. Men like to wear "hat", which is a kind of flat topped brimless soft hat, black and white, and is made of cloth. Marriage is an important event in life, so the symbolic features of bride's dress are particularly striking. Dongxiang women's dress changes obviously from a girl to a bride. For example, the color of "gaitou" is an important symbol to distinguish the age and marriage of Dongxiang women.

Dongxiang men usually wear wide robes, girdle belts, waist knives and cigarette purses. Women usually wear embroidered top with round collar, big skirt and wide sleeves. The underpants have small underpants at the back of the trouser tube, and the trouser tube and trouser leg have lace inlaid or embroidered. For festivals, they wear embroidered skirts and shoes. Men wear flat topped brimless white and black soft hats. Women wear embroidered caps at home and silk covers covering all their hair when they go out. Girls and newlyweds wear green, married and middle-aged women wear black, elderly women wear white. Women's jewelry mainly consists of silver earrings, bracelets and agate beads.

Dongxiang nationality is formed by the fusion of many nationalities, and its costumes are bound to be affected by a variety of sources. The Dongxiang nationality still retains the traditions and living habits of many ancient nomadic people, and its costumes also retain the hat called "brain hat" worn by old women in the past. Its style is a Mongolian OBO like high tube with the top closed and a round fan made at the back. Dongxiang young men like to tie a kind of embroidered waist ornament with narrow sides and wide middle, which can hold money. This kind of waist ornament is called "tartar flower belt" or "tartar flower trouser belt", which also originated from Mongolian.

Dongxiang costumes also reflect the class differences and some special property concepts after entering the class society. One of the most important rules of social ethics in Islam is that all people are equal. Islam opposes that people show their status and dignity by wearing luxurious and expensive clothes. Therefore, Dongxiang People's clothing should not advocate expensive and gorgeous clothing, nor vanity and show off, but should be as common and popular as possible, which is a reflection of the concept of equality in clothing.