Chinanews.com, Hangzhou, April 3 (Tong Xiaoyu) "The Hani people have no words, but the clothes are woven with world affairs. It can be said to be a history book written with needles and threads." On April 2, Deputy Researcher, Yunnan Provincial Museum. Li Hongyu said.
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On the same day, the "Harmony on the Clouds-Yunnan Hani Costume Exhibition" opened at the China Silk Museum in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
All kinds of hats of the Hani people.
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The Hani nationality is one of the 15 ethnic minorities unique to Yunnan, with a total population of more than 1.6 million.
This time exhibited 123 groups/pieces of costumes, silver ornaments, dyed, weaving and embroidered pieces of Hani ethnicity collected by Yunnan Provincial Museum and Honghe Prefecture Museum, as well as Hani textile machinery and farm tools.
The Hani nationality wedding gown is pierced to the head.
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"Up to now, the Hani people have not found any traces of writing." Li Hongyu said that the history of the ethnic group is passed down through oral traditions such as ancient songs. In addition, it can be learned from the costumes.
Myths, history, and everything that people hope to record are clearly "written" on it, one by one.
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For example, a pattern on the back of a woman's long dress from the Biyue branch of the Hani tribe records the migration history of the Hani tribe for thousands of years.
Hani women's hats of various shapes.
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Li Hongyu pointed to the dots with red circles and black hearts on the top of the long clothes and said, this shows that the Hani people had embarked on a migration journey at night.
In the middle of the clothes, there are two tortuous and equidistant lines intersecting red, white and black, indicating the tortuous road of the Hani people’s southward migration.
The other two curved arcs represent the Red River on the upper side and the Lancang River on the lower side.
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On the clothes of the Hani people of the Simoro people, there are four rows of long silver bubbles nailed vertically along the placket, indicating that the places where the Simoro people live are four rivers-Yuanjiang, Amojiang, Babianjiang and Lixianjiang.
He Songtao, the director of the Honghe Prefecture Museum in Yunnan, is a Han nationality, but because of work needs, he still wears Hani costumes and introduces Hani culture throughout China.
Hani bark clothing.
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"There are many styles of Hani costumes, and I haven't counted them up until now." He Songtao said that there are dozens or even hundreds of costumes for Hani women alone, and the shapes of hats are also different, and there is no respect or inferiority. There is no gap between rich and poor.
Walking around the exhibition site, you can find that the costumes are of different shapes.
There are short shorts and long trousers; there are short skirts and long skirts.
The hat may be a plain pointed cap, or a cotton cap studded with silver ornaments and embroidered with flowers. What's more, the entire hat is made of silver coins.
Hani silver jewelry.
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He Songtao stood in front of a suit of a woman from the Yiche branch of the Hani ethnic group and introduced the local customs.
He said that the super shorts recorded the difficult history of the ancestors of the Yiche branch; the white peaked hat showed that it was bestowed by the gods and was a life-saving magic weapon that only the children of Yiche could enjoy.
In addition to clothing, the silver jewellery they hung on their bodies was also quite particular.
For example, a bunch of fish and escargots of different sizes made of silver.
He Songtao said that in the eyes of the locals, fish and snails have strong reproductive ability, and they hope that their descendants and ethnic groups can have such vigorous vitality.
Today, the Hani people have lived and thrived for thousands of years in the long river of history, just like the wishes they carried on their costumes.
For Yang Danhua, an associate researcher of the Research Department of Honghe State Museum, how to let the traditional costumes of the Hani people be passed on from generation to generation and carry forward the traditional craftsmanship is the next goal.
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Yang Danhua is from the Hani nationality. She said that the traditional costumes of Hani women are an important part of the Hani's intangible culture.
Although all kinds of fabrics and clothing have replaced traditional handicrafts and costumes, and fewer and fewer Hani women master the craftsmanship, the good news is that Hani costumes have been included in the second batch of intangible cultural heritage lists of Yunnan Province.
"Especially some college students and young people turned their attention to the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, which injected fresh blood into the inheritance and development of the traditional costumes of the Hani ethnic group." Yang Danhua said.
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