Festive clothes of the Miao ethnic group are the clothes worn at Miao festivals and sacrificial rituals or a bride's luxurious and gorgeous dresses worn at the wedding. The wedding dresses are also called "floral dresses". There are two categories in the Miao festive clothes: men's and women's.
Blazing with colors, the Miao people's festive clothes are full of national flavors. The Miao people usually use white gunny, cotton or silk as fabric. The processing methods include simple and rustic dip dyeing, wax printing and ingenuous embroidery. In addition, bright colored and shining silver ornaments are embedded in the dresses made with the processed fabric.
The motifs on the festive clothes of the Miao minority are mostly based on all kinds of living creatures in real life. The elaborate patterns are in a wide range of colors and have a strong plastic effect, playing an important role in ideographical expression as well as in nationality, clan and language identification. The exquisiteness of the Miao clothes has put the Miao clothes at the top of the 56 ethnic groups of China in terms of artistic standard of clothes. Nicknamed "a history book worn on the body", the Miao clothes represent the art culture of the minority.
Festive clothes of the Miao ethnic group are a precious element of Chinese ethnic arts and crafts and have high artistic and cultural values.
