(Baonghean.vn)- Not as elaborate as the costumes of the Mong, Thai, etc., the costumes of the Tho people are relatively simple, with many borrowed features.But it is not difficult to recognize some differences...
The Tho people in Nghe An reside mainly in the western districts of the province such as Nghia Dan, Quy Hop, and Tan Ky. The Tho people live close to the Thai people, so their daily life and culture are "Thaiized".
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| Since ancient times, the Tho people have had a traditional cotton growing profession but did not master the techniques of weaving, dyeing, and embroidery. Most of the Tho women used skirts of the Thai people (Thai Man Thanh group or also known as Thai - Thanh). With cotton fiber, indigo dyed, with horizontal stripes on the skirt, when worn, the stripes of the skirt form parallel circles around the body axis. |
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Along with the dress is a belt, a piece of cloth about 30 cm wide folded in half, usually dyed blue. When wearing a belt, it is usually tied in a knot on one side of the waist and then tightened in two sections to make it neat, not left hanging down like the Thai people.
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| Turkish women often use a square scarf about 80 cm wide, folded to cover their heads. The second typeespecially normal cloth towels, in many colors, often used at work to wipe sweat and cover the head to protect from the sun. |
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| The second type is the scarf used in holidays, New Year's... This type of scarf is white. Nowadays, the head scarf of the Tho people is quite simple, but in the past, the way to wrap the scarf was quite complicated: First, the Tho woman folded the scarf into a triangle, then placed the triangle strip in front of her forehead, pulled the two pieces of the scarf around her head to the back and tied it tightly at the nape of her neck, then flipped the triangle part in front of her face up over her head, pulled it to the back, covering all her hair, so that the scarf looked like a white hat on her head. |
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Along with women's clothing, Turkish men also wearIn the past, women often wore clothes in the style of today's ao ba ba (traditional Vietnamese outfit), with wide-crotch pants, usually brown. |
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| Nowadays, only when there is a happy or sad event in the family, in the village or on holidays, everyone dresses like the Kinh people. |
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| It can be seen that the simplicity in the costumes of the Tho people compared to the costumes of other ethnic groups has created a difference, unique and unmistakable. And that also contributes to creating the diversity in the overall 54 ethnic groups of Vietnam. (Photo: Sach Nguyen) |
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