Yao people are good at weaving, dyeing and embroidery, and their costumes are also varied. The women of Huatou Yao nationality in Fangcheng wear double-breasted long dresses with cloth strips at the neckline, hem and cuffs. He was wearing shorts and leggings, with a red tassel on his head and a geometric handkerchief embroidered on the top. Women in Huayanyao, Dayaoshan wear double-breasted lapels with side slits. Lapels, hems and sleeves are decorated with exquisite red embroidery, with blue shorts, brocade leggings, clogs, green handkerchiefs and white handkerchiefs, and there is a silver ring at the tip of the neck. Jinping Hongtou Yao women wear blue double-breasted dresses, red embroidery and a row of silver medals.
The waist is tied with a green cloth belt with geometric patterns embroidered at the end. The exquisitely embroidered trousers are precious works of art. The woman in Gouyao, Guizhou Province is wearing a dog-tail shirt with the front hanging down to the bottom of the dress. If you carefully sew the ends of the dog's tail, when you put it on, the two fronts cross your chest and tie it behind your waist, and the "dog's tail" naturally hangs down. This kind of costume is related to Yao people's worship of "Pan Hu" (dog). The history books recorded Tiger Pan's "colored hair" and "dog head". Nan Man and his descendants imitate the colors and shapes of Pan Hu to make clothes. Yao people still wear five-color clothes and dog tail shirts to show that they have never forgotten their ancestors.
Common Yao men's clothes include double-breasted clothes, left-breasted clothes, short sleeves or long sleeves, and waist-binding. Pants are also divided into trousers and shorts, mainly in blue. What's more special is the white bloomers of Nandan White Pants Yao Men. hip breadth has tight legs and a strange shape. Yao's headdress is very rich, and the long hair of Bai Yao men is combed on the top of their heads. The man's hair of Dapai Yao is coiled into a bun, wrapped in red cloth and decorated with pheasant tails; Indigo Yao men like to wear beautifully woven ponytail hats. Chashan Yao women wear three pairs of big silver plates with their wings upturned; Huayao women wear a dog's head crown, and Pan Yao women's splendid hats are gorgeous; The "e-crown" on Yao women's heads; There are countless strange girl headdresses wrapped in brocade.
Yao people are good at indigo printing and dyeing. There are two ways to dye flowers on indigo cloth: batik and needle and thread overlapping dyeing. With its skillful indigo printing and dyeing technology, Yao people have made the famous "Yao Dian Bu" at home and abroad. Women's wear includes large-breasted tops and trousers; Some wear round neck shorts and pleated skirts; There are also those who wear robes and trousers. Yao costumes are unique in pattern and geometric in shape as a whole.
The characteristics of Yao headdress are more prominent, such as "dragon plate" shape, "a" shape and "flying swallow" shape. Yao people have a well-developed dyeing and weaving industry, their clothes are all self-dyed homespun, and they have a complete set of indigo printing and dyeing technology. Commonly used are five colors: red, green, yellow, white and black, as well as the processes of making multicolored flowers, embroidery, brocade and batik.