Unique red color on the costumes of the Dao Thanh Phan people in Binh Lieu

Unique red color on the costumes of the Dao Thanh Phan people in Binh Lieu. Photo: Vietnam.vn

The Dao people in Binh Lieu district, Quang Ninh province include two branches, 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 Dao Thanh Phan 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 Dao Thanh Phan people, for a long time they have chosen for themselves the main color red. Dao Thanh Phan women often wear a black outfit embroidered with red patterns on the collar, arms and legs, a high red rectangular hat with a chin strap, and a white scarf or a colorful red and blue pattern wrapped around the head.

Unique red color on the costumes of the Dao Thanh Phan people in Binh Lieu. Photo: Vietnam.vn

Dao Thanh Phan girls often wrap a red scarf with floral patterns on it and tie it around their chin, 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 one that takes a lot of time and effort to make.

Bright costumes and a bright smile always on their lips add to the unique beauty of Dao Thanh Phan women in the mountainous region.

Bright costumes and friendly smiles enhance the unique beauty of Dao Thanh Phan women.

The floral motifs on the headscarf, shirt and trouser hems use many images reflecting cultural life such as the harrow, 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 imbued with the unique cultural identity 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 clothes.

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 carry a strong cultural identity with sophistication in the way of dressing and decorating the 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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