The Miao people are an ancient nation with excellent traditional culture. In ancient Chinese classics, there have long been records about the ancestors of the Miao people. The ancestors of the Miao people can be traced back to Chiyou's Jiuli tribe five thousand years ago. After the Zhuolu War, Chiyou was defeated and killed, and the tribe began to move south.

Due to the migration and accumulation of the Miao people for thousands of years, a unique Miao culture has been derived. Among them, the Miao costume culture is one of them. The colorful costumes bear in mind the historical changes that the Miao people have gone through, as well as their longing for a better life and the condensed living environment of the past and present.

Then why is it said that the Miao costumes are the history books worn on the body? Although the Miao people do not have their own national literature, they rely solely on their strong sense of identity and oral teaching from generation to generation to integrate the stories that have been passed down for thousands of years, the cities where their ancestors lived, and the migration routes into their clothing culture. Every stitch is embroidered into the clothes, and they are "worn" and inherited from generation to generation, and will never be forgotten. Therefore, Miao costumes are known as "wordless history books" and "history books" worn on the body.

Miao costumes are divided into gender, age, costumes and casual clothes, and there are regional differences.

The Miao costume patterns bear the historical responsibility of inheriting the national culture, and thus have the expressive function of text. Due to the long history, the textual functions and specific meanings conveyed by these patterns are also mysterious and cannot be fully interpreted. This is also the unique charm of the Miao costume patterns.

Generally speaking, Miao costumes maintain the traditional Chinese folk craft techniques of weaving, embroidery, picking, and dyeing. They often use one main craft technique while interspersed with other craft techniques. Either choose the middle with embroidery, or dye with embroidery, or combine weaving and embroidery, so that these patterns appear colorful and colorful, showing distinctive national artistic characteristics.

The most representative one is "Leishan Miao clothing". Leishan Miao clothing embroidery, its composition, color and embroidery skills are truly the "three uniques". The composition pays attention to rigor, symmetry, and coordination. Each embroidery picture has a main and secondary pattern; the content of the composition is based on a wide range of materials, including all kinds of surprises.

So what kind of mystery does it contain? Let’s follow the Miao costumes to engrave the Miao’s thousand-year history and thousands of years of oral tradition!

After we learned about the various Miao costumes, we were really impressed by the millennium Miao culture. The mysterious totems make us feel as if we have traveled through thousands of years of history and reviewed the thousands of years of Miao history.