| 3ˇ˘ When they have a child, the women will change their
handkerchief into hats at the places of Shengzuo, Yinuo, Suodi. At Shengzuo
and Yinuo, the shape of a hat is like the shape of a lotus leaf and made
into interlayer. It is the shape of cyan cloth hat with bamboo frame inside
at the area of Suodi. Some people like to use 3 cm wide and long black cloth
to enlace around the head, which can reach the height of 10cm. The more
outstanding it is, the more respectable she is. In the past days, it is
currency no matter she is a girl of a woman in the black Yi nationality.
They will wear earring when they are recognized as adults or when they begin
to have two braids on. Earrings are made of coral, stone bead, jade, shellfish,
or silver and so on. Most of the earrings are of the shape of round star.
They usually use silver or copper as material to make buds with red bean
in the center. Women of the black Yis' wear converse pedicel with five silver
bands of round earbobs, wavering and grace. Collapsible is free from frock
with embroidered silver flower on, the frontispiece of which is rectangle
or cinquefoil. |
| 4ˇ˘Women usually have long skirt with hundreds foofaraw,
the cloth of which is combined by wide cloth and narrow one. The children's
skirts are mainly red or white, or with several alternate colors. The adolescence
skirts are red, blue, or white, or with alternate colors of the three. The
old ones are cyan or blue, or with the alternate colors of the two. The
children's skirts are short and divided into two sections with slim waistline
and big skirt. A skirt of an adult is divided into three sections: the upper
is the waist, the middle is straight canister and the bottom is the compact
foofaraw. The particular of a long skirt is the bottom with layers upon
layers drapes, so it is called Baizhe qun (pleated skirt), the more pleated
it is, the more respective she is. In the old days, the length of the skirt
is related to identity. A skirt of a black Yis' woman is too long to loll
down the ground, and she walks accompanied with dust flying upwards to show
her dignity. The woolen skirt is soft and thick, so it looks elegance. The
midst section is narrow and long with red color, decorated in the bottom
of symmetry and neat with blue pleated, underside is alternated with harmonious
red, white color, and the lower of which is cyan. Lots of the pleat scatters
at the part of the knees into the shape of a trumpet. When walking, the
pleat is getting light and elegant. |
