Traditional costumes of Ha Nhi La Mi people in Sin Thau, Muong Nhe and Dien Bien are in danger of disappearance. To preserve and preserve these cultural colors, it is impossible not to mention the role of women.
Traditional clothing of the Ha Nhi people clearly reflects the conquering and proficient use of some types of plants as raw materials, production tools, as well as dyes, ... to serve the needs of wearing.
Apparel and social attributes
The technique of producing Ha Nhi costumes is handmade and associated with the activities of each family in society. It reflects a self-sufficient economy. In this context, Ha Nhi's costume clearly reflects the gender division of labor in society - The important role of Ha Nhi women in addressing the needs of families and the community.
Ha Nhi clothing is highly "social", because it not only stops at the normal physical values but also expresses the social ideology of the Ha Nhi people. In holidays, New Year, weddings, ... Costumes are not monotonous but have distinct shades, reflecting the perception of folk aesthetics, beliefs, morality, dreams, aspirations, ... of people .
Ha Nhi's costumes also reflect and mark a high level of folk aesthetics. The visual arts in costumes, especially women's clothing, is a place where conception of aesthetics, harmony and preservation and reflection of ethnic characteristics are concentrated. Colors and patterns on traditional costumes are handled delicately, harmoniously, without greed, but always under consideration of aesthetic conception and national psychology. "It is the harmony of shaping style in traditional delicate clothes, skilful and using moderate patterns of Ha Nhi women".
In the process of migration and residence interspersed with other ethnic groups, Ha Nhi people on the one hand still retain the cultural identity of their own ethnic group, on the other hand, have absorbed cultural elements of other ethnic groups. , including costumes (such as textile techniques, colors, materials, ...). That is the process of creating a style and unique feature of Ha Nhi costume in Sin Thau - Muong Nhe - Dien Bien.
Along with the change in all aspects of social life, the traditional costumes of Ha Nhi people in Muong Nhe - Dien Bien also have many changes.
The danger of disappearing from a traditional culture leads to the loss of a series of fine customs and traditions. So traditional costumes should be reserved and preserved.
Ha Nhi women join hands to conserve traditional costumes
Embroidery and needlework are everyday tasks of women. They take advantage of every spare time to embroider, sometimes stitching a scarf, shirt, pants takes half a year to finish sewing. This work is done by women who do not have training classes but only learn from each other or from the mother who teaches the children, she teaches the younger sister.
Children from 10 to 11 years old learn how to sew and embroider, if any one doesn't know, ask their mother and sister. Embroidery is a job that requires ingenuity, practice and takes a long time to know, how to sew and its steps, it takes a good memory to practice sewing. Since the girls have been practicing sewing since early childhood, almost everyone knows how to sew, until they are grown up, they are girls with golden hands, not only shopping for themselves but also for their family and relatives. .
In order to wear the right outfit, the guidance of the sister's mother is required. Before you wear a short shirt, you must wear a ao dai first, then wear a short top outside. Then adjust the body of the shirt to be beautiful. Before wearing the head scarf, wear a sash first.
In the cause of building the country, building a new culture, socialist people, we will be lacking if we do not have access to traditional culture, taking traditional ethnic culture as one of the bases. important to building a cultural life today and tomorrow. In the pace of the industrial age, Ha Nhi people (including women) not only lived and framed in villages, but also traveled far and wide in all parts of the country. On the other hand, industrial labor requires people to wear European clothes to match, and .. And Ha Nhi women need to rest after a day of work, not being able to stay up late sewing, weaving, etc.
So should we keep the designs, decorative patterns, traditional dresses combined with industrial fabric to make costumes for holidays, New Year, festivals, ...
To form a trade village specialized in producing costumes in general and brocade products in particular to create jobs for laborers.
Brocade products will be a very "sell" product in the future in areas with potential for development such as A Pa Chai Border Gate - the border junction at Sin Thau - Muong Nhe, Muong Nhe Nature Reserve. , if we know how to take advantage of it. We have just introduced local products, while creating a part of income for the people here.
To introduce us more about the value of costume culture on the indigenous culture in the northwestern mountains of Dien Bien. Since then, along with the Ha Nhi people to preserve and on that basis promote the costume culture in particular and Ha Nhi culture in general, build a bold advanced culture that has national cultural identity.
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