Far far away in the mountain there is village called Lutong. There I ran into the local folks with fragrance like grass and trees, who begin the day at sunrise and finish their work at sundown. They live a quiet life in such a busy world, pure as spring and peaceful like a mountain. That’s Hani People in Yuanjiang County, from Suobi Tribe in Qingshui River area.20 days before Hani New Year, is a peaceful time for Hani people, when Ms. Yang Haonu gathered several female friends and relatives to collect cottons, knit cloth and dye them, with joy and singing. What a warm and beautiful scene in winter!
If you’d like to know Hani people, you should start from their clothes. Their way of dressing is essential, conveying a lot of cultural information rather than just wearing. The color, design and patterns reflect their living surroundings. Women take all the responsibility of making clothes, from collecting cotton,spinning, weaving, indigo dying to sewing the whole suit.Cotton, as an important material for clothing, equally important as silk, linen and leather, traveled to China from India and Arab, with its full bloom and warm flower, gently takes care of Hani People and tells us a story of natural warmth through years of changes in temperature, for Hani People is one of the pioneers to plant cotton. Besides its natural material cotton, plain color is also a feature of Hani clothes. Anyone dressed in bright colors like red or purple is never to be seen in Hani village. They adore deep blue for clothing mostly, taking it a similar color of mountains after raining and a plain color of nature itself.It is a fashion indeed, with oriental philosophy and artistic conception. Using natural materials, cotton for weaving and indigo-woad root for dying, Hani People takes from nature and gives back as well, making their world harmonious, warm and beautiful.
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