The Splendid Costumes of the Lisu Ethnic Group in Yanbian, Sichuan Make a Debut at China International Fashion Week: Traditional Intangible Cultural Heritage Engages in a Dialogue with Modern Fashion
2025/03/25 11:50
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On March 22, at the main show of the 2025 China International Fashion Week (Spring), a grand show of the Lisu ethnic group's costumes from Yanbian County, themed "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Sichuan · A Hundred Cities and A Hundred Arts", made a stunning appearance, enabling the intangible cultural heritage from the deep mountains to bloom anew in the context of modern fashion.
"What is ethnic is also global. We have always been exploring ways to bring the costumes of more ethnic groups back into daily life, to wear traditional culture on our bodies, and to spread it to more distant places," said Gu Yan, the president of the Lisu Ethnic Group Research Association in Yanbian County.
On the stage, models wearing gradient rainbow - colored long dresses shuttled through the stage where reality and virtuality intertwined, reenacting the legend of the Lisu ethnic group's "making clothes with seventy-seven mountain flowers". In addition to the display of traditional Lisu ethnic group costumes, the entire show also included the display of high - end customized dresses, ready - to - wear clothes and other segments. Designers combined ethnic elements with modern fashion, and each piece of work was a dialogue across time and space.
"As a nation that chases the sun, the costumes of the Lisu ethnic group carry functions such as the Lisu's etiquette and education, and ethnic group cultural symbols, and inherit the cultural spirits of the Lisu ethnic group, such as their ethnic cultural identity, aesthetic consciousness, and ecological concepts," said He Zhengfen, a representative inheritor of the provincial intangible cultural heritage - the craftsmanship of making Lisu ethnic group costumes. When ethnic culture is integrated into fashion, the cultural genes that have been dormant for thousands of years awaken instantly.
It is reported that the craftsmanship of making Lisu ethnic group costumes in Yanbian County was included in the sixth batch of provincial intangible cultural heritages of Sichuan Province in 2023 and won the "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Sichuan · A Hundred Cities and A Hundred Arts" project in 2024. This craftsmanship involves dyeing self-made fireweed linen cloth with plant juice. After cutting the dyed cloth into the required size for making clothes with scissors, it is sewn by hand. On the shoulder straps, cuffs, aprons, braces, and round collars of the clothes, a variety of colorful patterns and designs are embroidered with various colored silk threads. Men wear slant - front short jackets, long trousers, and tie a red belt around their waists, carry embroidered pockets on their backs, and wear a turban on their heads. Women keep long braids on their heads, coil them on the top of their heads, wrap their heads with a turban, wear earrings, wear slant - front short jackets with round collars and flowery sleeves, wear white pleated skirts with red stripes, tie a red belt around their waists, carry embroidered hanging bags on their backs, and wear bracelets. Both men and women, old and young of the Lisu ethnic group cannot do without an embroidered pocket, which is almost a symbol and emblem of the Lisus. They also have a belt made of wool, about five inches wide and more than a zhang (a traditional Chinese unit of length) long, and the tassels at both ends are also their important symbols.
From the beautiful clothes in the deep mountains to the international catwalk, this China International Fashion Week has enabled the world to witness the customs of the Lisu ethnic group in Yanbian County. In recent years, Yanbian County has deeply explored the rich cultural resources of 46 intangible cultural heritage projects. Focusing on the "flower of intangible cultural heritage", it has innovatively implemented the "intangible cultural heritage +" integration strategy, and comprehensively promoted the in - depth integrated development of agriculture, culture, and tourism. It has successively established 2 intangible cultural heritage inheritance and training centers and 7 intangible cultural heritage workshops, and developed cultural and creative products such as Lisu ethnic group costumes and Miao ethnic group batik, injecting new vitality into the inheritance and development of ethnic culture. (Li Feng)
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