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【Clothes
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 Amis
live broadly, what's more Hualien has a long and narrow landscape, so the
clothes of different area, tribes and
classes differ
from each other. They have different styles.
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traditional color
of
Amis is mainly black, however, in recent years; the beautiful and
bright
colors have appeared for the modern culture
impact. For Jiali Village and Jialin Village of Hsincheng Township
belong to "Nanshih Amis," the colors of our clothes are mainly red, black and
white, and the clothes of the southern part Amis such as the area south of
Taitung has been decorated with tassel and shawl of different colors, and the
main colors are black, violet red, yellow, green red and orange. |
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【Color
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Amis advocate nature, they believe that all obligations are endowed by nature so
the concept of respecting nature has been fused in clothing by different colors.
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《Red》 |
Blood
that runs in the body, symbolizes
running in the family. |
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《White》 |
Purity, symbolizes clean and white. |
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《Green》 |
Natural plant and mountain forest,
symbolizes life. |
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《Black》 |
Cultivated soil, symbolizes the source
of the world. |
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【Clothes
characteristic】 |
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 Amis
dressing is very bright. They like scarlet, the
natural color has expressed their respect and
fancy to the nature. And the Amis have used
horizontal back strap loom to weave elegant and
beautiful clothes and then they will connect the
clothes piece by piece to make a dress, it
belongs to the "collage cloth system," and Amis
have also used large amount of decorate to foil
the dress and it is decorated with shell, button,
glazed ball, the
dress is not only the symbol of personal
status as well as personal treasure,
 it
has deep conventional aesthetic
meaning.
The
color, pattern as well as type have
shown the aesthetic meaning and social effect of
the tribe. Due to the strict age class system,
we could feel the cultural characteristic of
Amis from their dressing. Now the daily dress of
Amis is the same as the Han, however in the
ritual activities, we have to wear our traditional
dresses. Although time changes quickly, Amis
could use their wisdom to create characteristic
dress and decorations, the appearance of clothes
also changes with the time, and it is a good
representation for Amis culture. |
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【Dress
classifications】 |
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In the following paragraph we have classified
the Amis dresses into:
1)Cloth: mufti used in everyday
life and robe for ceremony.
2)Clothing fittings: mate with the
clothing to make it become a complete clothing
set.
3)Decorations: decorations for the
clothing.
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