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Recently, the fashion show program in the ** TV fashion column is really colorful, dazzling, everything, clothing, handbags, shoes, hats, pins, silk scarves and various accessories. In fact, fashion as an art, like other arts, life is its inexhaustible source. In life, in the folk, in various places, there are quite distinctive costumes. Chaoshan water cloth is one of the unique costumes popular in the region.
Chaoshan water cloth, also called Chaoshan bath cloth, head cloth, mantle, is 2 meters long, 0 wideIt is about 8 meters long, dyed and bleached with red, blue, and blue checkered patterns. There are different legends. One is that when Han Yu was the assassin of Chaozhou, he saw that he was often naked when he was working in the row of fir rows in the evil stream, and he also saw that some farmers who carried fish fry were often naked because they had to go into the water to count the fish fry and were anxious to carry the burden to hurry, and they were often naked, thinking that they were immoral in the public, so they taught these people to use a long cloth to enclose the lower body, which was the earliest water cloth, so the water cloth was also called "Han Xuan". Another theory is that from the style of the water cloth and some places call it "mantle", everything called "fan" is generally from overseas, such as "tomato", "sweet potato", etc., so some people say that it may have originated from the "sarong" in Southeast Asia. The author believes that the former has no historical records, which is inevitably far-fetched, and although the latter is also unrecorded, it is more likely from the fact that its name has the word "fan", and the Chaoshan region is bordered by the South China Sea, and it has close contacts with overseas countries, especially Southeast Asian countries, in history.
Chaoshan water cloth is both practical and fashionable. The area is located by the sea, crisscrossed by rivers, and the weather is hot and rainy, so the water cloth is a treasure carried by rural men, especially farmers, boat people, and fishermen. When he goes out, he is tied to his waist, which is quite powerful and heroic;It can be used to wipe sweat when working;After finishing work, it can be used as a bath towel when going down to the river to bathe;In the summer, it can be spread under the tree to sit and lie on the groundIn winter, it can be wrapped around the head and neck to keep out the cold, and it can also shade the sun, block the rain, pack a bag, and be used as a shoulder pad, which is very versatile.
History moves forward, things develop. With the improvement of the people's material living standards and the improvement of production conditions, more and more men in Chaoshan rural areas are opening factories to become bosses or going to the city and factories to work, even if they are farmers, boat people, and fishermen, many of them are also fashionable when they work, and the practical scope of water cloth in the Chaoshan area is gradually not as good as before. However, many businessmen in the Chaoshan area have a unique vision, on the basis of retaining the traditional characteristics, ingenuity to innovate, transform, package, especially to combine it with one of the four famous embroidery in our country, embroidered with flowers, insects and birds, characters and other patterns, the decorative role has been greatly strengthened, as a local specialty ** It is quite popular with people, the market is very good, many overseas Chinese visit relatives and return to bring it as a hometown specialty to give to relatives and friends, many collectors will collect it as a characteristic handicraft, many tourists will use it as a tourist souvenir for home decoration, the vitality of Chaoshan water cloth in the new era has been further strengthened, glowing with new vitality.