Women In Luzhi Are Like Boats.

Luzhi, the first town in Shenzhou water village, has a history of 2500, and it has maintained the tradition that has been handed down for thousands of years. Clothes & Accessories It reflects with ancient bridges, ancient streets, ancient houses and ancient ginkgo trees with a history of more than 1300 years. Nowadays, from waiters to salesmen, they are wearing traditional Jiangnan Water Village Women's costumes. The continuation of these traditional costumes makes the whole water village scenic spot like a flowing folk costume exhibition hall. In June 2010, Luzhi The water village clothing Hall shows the unique charm of the water village costumes to Shanghai Expo visitors in the way of interactive design and live performance.

Green lotus shirt and lotus root dress

It's more than 5500 years old.

The women's clothing exhibition of Soochow water village in the Shen house of West Hui town, the ancient town, has long been known, and the newly built women's clothing exhibition hall in the waterfront village of Luzhi Jiangnan Water Culture Park will open in the near future. Soochow's women's clothing exhibition in Soochow water village will move in. Water village women's clothing is mainly distributed in Wuzhong District, Luzhi, which is centered on 360 square kilometers of water and rural areas. Among them, the women's clothing "Qing lotus shirt and lotus root Lotus" is particularly beautiful in Luzhi town.

Speaking of women's clothing in Luzhi, it can be traced back to 5500 years ago. Economics In the early days, when women worked in farmland, they were often attacked by aquatic animals and plants. So they made small cuffs and trouser legs, and could only be forced to wear them. When planting rice, cutting rice and harvesting, women were often exposed to wind and sunshine, hands and feet were stained with mud, shoulders, elbows and sleeve ports were most easily damaged, so Baotou, skirts, girdles and splicing shirts were constantly evolving into local natural conditions and the demand for field labor. The dress has formed a spliced shirt with two heads of two colors, a pair of fancy banded skirts, a cloth chest pocket and a graceful and free "embroidered skirt" (usually made of two pieces of cloth before and after stacking and pressing, outside the outer garment), a waist belt (waist belt as a skirt, waist), a shank wrapped around the shank (wrapped on the shank of the shank, tied up with a tie, like a "Leggings"), and a complete set of (8 pieces) costumes embroidered with hundred embroidered shoes, full of the characteristics of Jiangnan Water Village, so it has the name of "Suzhou minority" dress. "" rural women in Luzhi, Sheng Pu and Wei Ting in the east of Suzhou still retain traditional folk customs.

Up to now, women over the age of 40 in Western Luzhi are still on the streets in traditional costumes. There are now more than 1000 people in all corners of the country. They are dressed in water and women's clothing, and the scene is very spectacular.

Water village clothing Museum Completed by the end of August

Shen residence is the former residence of educator Mr. Shen Baihan. It was built in 1873. It has a history of more than 130 years. The original building area is 3500 square meters. Only 720 square meters in the West are open to tourists. The ceremonial hall of the house (the official hat, the sedan chair, etc.), was originally the Shen family hall, entertaining the tea Hall of the general guests. Now it is the exhibition hall of the "Wu Dong Shui Township women's clothing exhibition". All kinds of traditional water and folk costumes are displayed in the hall, Baotou towel, splice shirt, cloth chest pocket, waist belt for skirts, waist, shank wrapped in rolls, and hundred embroidered shoes.

The Museum of water and clothing in Luzhi Cultural Park will be completed by the end of August this year. The Museum of water and clothing will showcase the clothing of the water village with rich physical display, diverse display forms and novel interactive projects, including electronic playback screens, miniature plastic sand tables, virtual tailoring, costumes and collocation photographs.

To cultivate and expand the cultural industry of water and clothing, relevant departments will also open up women's clothing stores in Luzhi's water villages and Water Village Gallery in Luzhi's water village women's clothing, so as to meet the needs of tourists at different levels.

Ritual shoes are like boats.

Women in the water village attach great importance to the carding and decorating of their heads. Their black hair and numerous ornaments, accompanied by exquisite Baotou towels and costumes, show their ingenuity and elegance. Baotou towel is triangular shape, also known as "triangle head bag". The Baotou towel is made of black cloth, white cloth or blue cloth with a single color, cut into triangles, triangular coloured cloth on the corner, edge rolled with colored cloth, or embroidered with colored velvet, and embroidered on the corner with two colorful tassels. Wrapped in the head, people walk like tassels, like butterflies flying.

In spring and autumn, clothing is mainly made of spliced sweater. The fabric is mainly composed of cloth, cloth and Shilin cloth. The color contrast is distinct, fresh and not bright, gorgeous and not vulgar. There are splicing, rolling, climbing, decorating, embroidery and so on. The jacket is tightly sleeved to suit the needs of the labor in the field, and the sleeves are easy to drag. The shoulder and sleeve are spliced with different colors, because the ancient women are the main labor force in the field, and the burden is the easiest to wear off the shoulders. Harvesting crops will inevitably damage the sleeves. When it is time to make up, it will not be able to find the same color cloth, so it will be more convenient to make the three colors when the new clothes are made, so it will be more convenient to make up.

The embroidered skirts at the waist also have their own characteristics. They are knee length and lower hem, which are convenient for farm work and daily life. The skirt is very thin, and there are different decorations on the surface and skirt, with a small waist on the skirt. Wear a big pocket on the waist, wear around the waist and embroider all kinds of patterns. Trousers are usually made of blue or white blue printed cloth, and crotch is made up of blue or black cloth.

The most peculiar thing is shoes, which are quite similar to small boats. The upper is made up of two pieces, called boat shaped embroidered shoes. The upper part of the shoe upper is embroidered with a geometric figure around the bottom of the upper, mainly to increase the fastness, and a piece of cloth after the upper can play the role of pulling shoes.

Look at the color of clothing to distinguish age.

The women's clothing in Luzhi Watertown has strong local characteristics, and the clothes worn by everyday wear vary with age and season. According to age, they can be divided into two categories: clothing for young women and clothing for elderly women. Each category is divided into three categories: spring and autumn costumes, summer costumes and winter clothing.

The young girl liked the bright red towel Baotou, showing black and bright braid, wearing a short coat of small flower heads, embroidered with cotton cloth, small Pipa buckles, a small apron of Shilin blue cloth and pleated waist, embroidered with various designs in the waist pocket, a red and green tassel on the head of the blue ribbon, a Tibetan cloth trousers under the skirt, and embroidered embroidered scarf round cloth shoes.

Old women usually dress in dark colors. The hair is covered with a black net towel, and the cloth skirt is mostly black, which gives people the beauty of simplicity and solemnity.

The dress of the middle-aged woman is elegant, and the plain Baotou towel is tied with the bun of the colored rope on the head, and the silver hair plate is inserted vertically on the bun, and the silver hairpin is inserted horizontally. In addition, there are two types of ceremonial dress for women in the water village of Luzhi. They are mainly divided into wedding dress and shroud, and different folk festivals will also have different dress requirements. Luzhi's water village women's shoes are like boats.