Personage & Adornment, 5th prize

Finery of Yi Nationality

Hu Xiaoping(China)


  The Finery of Yi nationality differs in different regions. The three sections are: the Yinuo style, Shengzha style, and Suodi style. Clothing is usually use red, yellow, black. People wear new clothing mainly during the weddings, memorial ceremony, and torch festival. At the Torch festival, the Yi people wear flaming clothing.  
 

 
  2. The high cap.  
 

 
 
3. Beautiful clothing in the torch ground.
 
 

 
  5. Yellow umbrella, black cap and color clothing make the favorite finery of the Yi girls.  
 

 
  6. The aged Yi women choose the black and blue clothing.  
   
  7. Nice silver decorations.  
   
  8. Knots symbolic of heroic deeds by Yi boys.  
   
  10. The hand-made pleated skirt.  

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