Unique red color on the costumes of the Thanh Phan Dao people in Binh Lieu. Photo: Vietnam.vn
The Dao people in Binh Lieu district, Quang Ninh province consist of two branches, namely Dao Thanh Phan and Dao Thanh Y. The costumes of Dao Thanh Phan women are very elaborate with bright red colors, clearly showing the typical characteristics of their ethnic group.
Unique red color on the costumes of the Thanh Phan Dao people in Binh Lieu. Photo: Vietnam.vn
The terrain and location of the place of residence also partly affect the color of each ethnic group's clothing. For the Thanh Phan Dao people, for a long time they have chosen red as their main color. Thanh Phan Dao women often wear a black outfit embroidered with red patterns on the collar, arms and legs, a red rectangular hat with a chin strap, and a white scarf or a colorful red and blue pattern wrapped around their heads.
Unique red color on the costumes of the Thanh Phan Dao people in Binh Lieu. Photo: Vietnam.vn
Dao Thanh Phan girls often wrap a red scarf with floral patterns on their heads and tie it around their chins, showing their modesty and grace. Married women often shave their heads, wear a red box, and cover it with a patterned scarf.
In particular, in the costumes of Dao Thanh Phan women, the most elaborate headdress is the folded hat, so it takes a lot of time and effort to make.
The colorful costumes and bright smiles always on their lips add to the unique beauty of the Dao Thanh Phan women of the mountainous region.
Bright costumes and friendly smiles enhance the unique beauty of Dao Thanh Phan women.
The floral motifs on the headscarf, shirt hems, and pants hems use many images reflecting cultural life such as the plow, cowpea flowers on the fields, ginseng flowers, or terraced fields.
Living in the highlands, the Dao Thanh Phan people believe that wearing colorful clothes will make wild animals avoid them and not harm them.
Dao Thanh Phan women are not only diligent and hard-working in labor and production, but they also skillfully make costumes that are imbued with the unique cultural characteristics of their people.
Unmarried Dao Thanh Phan girls often wrap a red scarf around their heads, printed with striking floral patterns. When participating in farm work, their costumes also stand out in the rice fields.
In their spare time, the women of the Dao Thanh Phan ethnic group often embroider patterns on their dresses.
The Dao Thanh Phan people believe that when they wear colorful clothes, wild animals will avoid them and not harm them. Although life is still difficult, the Dao Thanh Phan people in Binh Lieu still preserve the cultural features, customs and practices of their people, thereby adding to the beauty of the land and people of Binh Lieu.
Binh Lieu district has more than 90% ethnic minorities. Life is still difficult, but in each house of the Dao Thanh Phan people, many cultural values are preserved, especially the traditional costumes of the Giao women, which are imbued with a distinctive cultural identity with sophistication in the way they dress and decorate their costumes, and creativity in embroidery of the motifs, so the Giao Thanh Ban women always create a brilliant ethnic cultural beauty in the space of the Northeast Mountains and Forests./.
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