Folk Customs In Fengxian: Dress Custom In Fengxian County

This county does not produce cotton, women do not spin, clothing and cloth have always come from Guanzhong and southern Shaanxi. The cloth is called "big cloth" or "homespun cloth". Before the founding of the people's Republic of China, most of the men wore a pair of pairs of waist belts, and women wore more big jacket. Men and women wear big crotch pants. Except for young women who prefer printed or red green clothes, adult men and women love blue, black and white clothes. A small number of wealthy businessmen wear long gowns and Mandarin gowns, and women have short skirts. Poor families are all dressed up. Keep out the cold 。 Some civil servants and a small number of students wore Chinese tunic suits (called uniforms, also called clothes clothes). The southern dress has southern characteristics. Both men and women wear a piece of cloth to wrap their heads, wear long gowns, pedals grass shoes or linen shoes, and practice their legs with wool in winter.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, Chinese tunic suits were popular in towns and rural areas in the middle of 50s and the middle of 60s. Young and middle-aged women, changing their big jacket to the pair of jackets, also have to wear over. Collar shirt The old crotch pants of the skirt are being phased out. But during the "Cultural Revolution", because of the influence of ultra leftist ideological trend, people pursued the beautiful appearance of clothes, regarded them as bourgeois ideology, regarded them as "improper style of work", and even some people were criticized for their struggles. For this reason, for a time, men and women, old and young, Clothing Then it was caught in simplification and monotonicity. Old people continue to wear the old clothes and old clothes. Young men and women wear fashionable green "Red Guards" and military caps. Some young women even wear their belts around their waist to show that they do not love red clothes and love armed forces. In 1978, after the third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, the Communist Party of China set aside chaos and emancipate the mind. People regarded the beauty and pursuit of clothing as normal behavior. With the development of the national textile industry, the coarse, poor quality cloth and cloth have been replaced by solid and beautiful chemical fabrics, so people's clothing and clothing have been changed. Western-style clothes and leather shoes have become popular among workers, residents and some young farmers. Women's clothing and children's clothing of all kinds of colors and styles have become the clothes that urban and rural women and children compete for. New fashions in big cities can be seen and bought very quickly in double stone shops and Longkou towns.