苗族服饰 Miao Costumes
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The Miao people are fairly recent arrivals to the region, only settling here in Yunnan , 200 and 270 years ago.
These kids put on their best to welcome visitors .
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This was photographed in 1994 . Living conditions , I heard , have now improved quite a lot .
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Day 2, Photo 1 of Polaroidweek. This is a shot that got jammed in the camera during a shoot with Miao Miao for an upcoming 12:12 Men Project theme. I pulled it out with tweezers a couple hours later. Happy accident!
Acquattato sul muro di un vicolo di Brescia qualche mese fa ho incontrato uno dei tanti cugini sparsi per il mondo del mio piccolo micio nero.
Ho provato a comunicare con lui, purtroppo si è limitato a fissarmi come impietrito ... mi è parso piuttosto turbato, doveva essergli capitato qualcosa di sconvolgente visto che dai suoi occhietti rossi scaturivano piccole lacrime di sangue. Se qualcuno lo avesse incontrato e sapesse qualcosa di più su questa storia è pregato di farmi avere notizie.
Featured in National Geographic's "Your Shot" on February 26:
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Also here:
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Click on Guizhou.
This is a photo from the Miao Dragon Lantern Festival in Taijiang, Guizhou, China. Teams of 8 to 10 men haul around dragon puppets while hundreds of others try to burn them down using giant firecrackers. This is the Miao variation of the lantern festival held throughout China on the fifteenth day of the first month.
Sisters' Meals Festival Of Miao Ethnic Group
The Sisters’ Rice Festival is sometimes called Sisters’ Meal Festival or Eat Sisters’ Rice Festival. The legend is there was once an old man and his wife who had three beautiful daughters. One day while they played on the riverside, the young girls felt lovesick. Zhang Guolao, a bearded God who carried a bamboo tubular drum, possessed the spirits of the girls, telling them to prepare five-colored rolls of glutinous rice filled with shrimp, fish and other special things. When young men came down from the mountain, the beautiful girls presented the rice to them. In this way, the young girls found their marriage partners
Sisters’ Meal festival, which takes in the Spring, is specific to southeast Guizhou. During the third lunar month in Shidong, Taijiang County in Southeast Guizhou Province, girls flock to the mountains to collect wild flowers and berries to dye the glutinous rice known as Sister’s Rice and everyone cooks up a storm! A storm of glutinous rice that is — dyed in several colors and formed into balls. Each girl prepares her rice with a symbol then wraps it in a handkerchief or put inside small baskets
The Miao minority “Sisters’ Rice Festival” is a celebration of spring and of love. Dressed in finest embroidered and appliqued clothing, adorned in all their freshly shined silver jewelry, young women set out to attract a suitable mate. That’s the traditional goal, but fun is the name of the game! Two, sometimes three, festival days are filled with dancing, singing, eating, drinking lots of rice wine, watching bull fights and cockfights, and horse racing.
The Festival brings villagers from many remote areas together, the girls beautifully dressed in their embroidered costumes. A kaleidoscope of colors, local customs and traditions, signature costumes and hairstyles provide a never-ending fashion show. It is said that the Miao originated from the egg of a butterfly that emerged from a maple tree. The butterfly married a bubble and laid twelve eggs. A mythical bird called the Jiyu watched over the eggs for twelve years and finally they hatched into a Miao man known as Jiangyang, a Thunder God known as Leigong, a water buffalo, snake, dragon, tiger, centipede, elephant and four other omens. All of these symbols are found in the exquisite embroidery and colorful decoration of these artistically talented people.
In anticipation of the Sisters’ Rice Festival, the grandmothers, mothers and other female relatives polish and shine the collection of silver neck rings, bracelets, anklets, earrings, hair pins and combs, rings and pendants, phoenix crowns and headpieces that the young courting-age girls will wear. The Miao believe that silver, representing light, dispels evil spirits. Silver is also a symbol of wealth and beauty, and some young women wear several kilograms of it at one time. Dazzling embroidered skirts, blouses, aprons and jackets are decorated with many different tooled silver ornaments. Pretty necks are encircled with bands of silver and linking silver chains that support large shining lockets, glittering beads and hanging tassels. Elaborate silver headpieces crown the heads of the girls as they proudly display their self-made costumes.
The festival always begins with special family meals. Sharing traditional foods such as rice that has been colored with the dyes of different leaves, berries and flowers, then cooked in bamboo tubes, and homemade rice wine, is similarly practised among the many Miao tribes. Some of the dyed rice is molded into balls that hold hidden treasures. These rice balls are presented to the young men who come to visit, and each treasure has a different meaning. Pine needles mean “You should give me embroidery needles.” and corn silk is a suggestion of fine yarn. A thorn tells the lucky fellow “You are the one!” Chopsticks or red flower pistils say, “Let’s marry quickly — the sooner the better.” And a single chopstick, some garlic or chili means, “Find someone else!”
Meanwhile, you will find many elders at the cockfighting competitions, trading at the daylong markets, or leisurely rowing long dugout canoes on the river beside the festival ground. This is a time of camaraderie and “catching up.” Mid-morning approaches, and the elders rush off to the bullfights. Excitement rises as the mighty bulls lock horns, trying to wrestle each other to the ground. All day long, one bull after another is defeated and then the final match begins. The winning bull brings great honor and riches to his owner for the following year, so although it is festival, the participants enter into the fights with a certain seriousness. Such anxiety calls for much merriment, eating, drinking and friendly betting. The champion bull’s horns are festooned with chickens, ducks, red ribbons and flowers as he is led around the battleground and through the town, snorting proudly for all to see. Finally he is bathed in the soothing waters of the Qingshui. The crowds thin out as people join picnics and special feasts.
The Qingshui riverside becomes lively and exciting as the music and dancing begins. As they walk and dance, the lovely Miao girls jingle and shimmer in the sun. Their cheeks burn with excitement while they flirt with handsome young men, each of whom is searching for a beauty worthy of his strength and handsomeness. Towards evening the newly formed couples break away and begin singing together.
When darkness falls, the festival beat increases as the dragon dances begin. Candles are lit inside the 25-meter-long hollow paper dragons. Battles begin as the fiery dragons weave in and out of the hooting crowds chasing each other. Drums and fireworks complete the noisy atmosphere. Into the evening, the elders continue to make the rounds, greeting their friends, swapping stories and songs, sharing tobacco and wine As the moon rises high in the night sky, young lovers wander off. The mountain paths are busy with the sounds of tinkling footsteps and clear melodious voices singing gentle love songs to the tunes of Lusheng pipes. Long into the night, the partying continues… Bamboo flutes and wooden drums echo sounds throughout the valley as the dawn breaks, beginning the next day’s festivities. As crowds slowly gather, the lovely dancing girls strut like peacocks while the boys look on admiringly
Les photos de cet album sont parues sur Flickr peu après sa véritable utilisation et au moment où l'on est Méconnu...Quelqu'un l'ayant ressorti des oubliettes .... j'ai pensé la remettre dans des groupes que je ne connaissais pas alors
Jeune homme Miao en costume traditionnel dans le village de Basha (Province du Guizhou, Chine)
Les Miao sont le sixième groupe ethnique en termes d’effectifs (environ 9 millions) parmi les 56 « nationalités » reconnues par les autorités chinoises. Mais cette dénomination masque en réalité une diversité de peuples linguistiquement (langues hmong) et culturellement plus ou moins proches. Ainsi la notion de dialectes pour désigner les différents groupes linguistiques miao est-elle contestée et les linguistes estiment qu'ils forment en vérité des langues distinctes. Particulièrement nombreux dans la province de Ghizhou (12 % de la population) les Miao sont présents dans une aire très large du sud de la Chine. On les retrouve au Laos sous le nom de Hmong et au Vietnam sous celui de Méo. Les Miaos sont animistes même si quelques-uns, en particulier au Vietnam, ont été convertis à la religion chrétienne.
Historiquement les Miao/Hmong sont d’abord éleveurs et agriculteurs nomades au centre de la Chine, dans les bassins du fleuve Jaune, aux côtés des premiers Han. Ils se dispersent à travers toute l'Asie du Sud-Est et notamment dans les montagnes des provinces du Yunnan, du Guizhou et du Guangxi. On les retrouve au Laos dès le début du XIXe siècle.
L'une des caractéristiques de la culture Miao/Hmong est la richesse du décor brodé ou appliqué des vêtements et couvre-chefs
(Synthèse à partir des articles "Miao" et "Hmong" de l'encyclopédie participative Wikipedia qui a révolutionné l'accès à la connaissance et fête ses 20 ans cette année)