Tie-dyed butterfly fancy

The hometown of tie-dyeing of Bai nationality is Zhoucheng Village, Xizhou Town, Dali City. Zhoucheng Village is also a treasure house of Bai folklore and fairy tales. The famous "butterfly spring" is just one mile away from the village, at the east foot of Diancang Mountain in the northwest. Butterfly tree, iris, butterfly and become a butterfly have naturally become the beauty and blessings in the hearts of Bai people. Most of the patterns on tie-dyeing are butterflies, or various butterfly patterns, as well as various butterfly patterns. Butterfly patterns include single butterfly patterns, double butterfly patterns, four butterfly patterns, and countless butterfly patterns forming a circle, etc. Both single butterfly patterns and multiple butterfly patterns are evolving towards symbolic and abstract butterfly patterns, which is a higher and more beautiful artistic image than the real entity butterfly.

Of course, many ethnic minorities in Yunnan have butterfly totem worship, which symbolizes their longing and pursuit for a better and happier life. In the costumes of Bai, Yi, Miao, Dai, Jingpo, Achang and other ethnic minorities, some formalized butterfly patterns directly described frequently appear. In the whole body, hats, clothes, waist ornaments, culottes and shoes, the image of butterflies has never appeared anywhere. Tie-dyeing of Bai nationality, batik of Miao nationality, embroidery of Yi nationality, brocade of Dai nationality and butterfly pattern are common occurrences. Bai people even embroider butterfly patterns on uppers, uppers and insoles, dreaming that they can dance like butterflies and fly freely like butterflies.

The worship of butterflies is an ancient totem worship, and all ancient nations in the world have experienced this historical stage of nature worship. Its sexuality is the worship of reproduction (pomegranate, lotus, lotus, fish, snake, frog, etc. are all idols of reproductive worship), but each nation has different personalities because of the differences in living environment and cultural background. For example, the worship of butterflies in Han nationality is related to the homonym of "butterfly" and "blessing" in Chinese, and butterflies become the symbol of "blessing". The Bai people's butterfly worship is naturally related to the ancient "butterfly spring" folklore and the related "Butterfly Club" (on April 15th of the lunar calendar, young Bai men and women meet in butterfly spring to talk about love), and it is also related to the Bai people's "Around the Three Spirits" (the ancient Bai people's religious sacrifices are held from April 23rd to 25th of the lunar calendar, the butterfly-flying flower season, and the Bai people's men, women and children around Erhai Lake, from the holy source of Cangshan "God Capital". Hundreds of miles along the way, singing and dancing during the day; In the evening, light a bonfire in the field or forest, and cook tea and rice. After dinner, the old man sipped tea and played and sang, and the young men and women met for a tryst and fell in love all night. Butterfly worship has become a symbol of beauty, love and life in Bai aesthetics.

Of course, there are many other ornaments in the tie-dyed patterns, such as myths and legends, ethnic customs, mountains and rivers, snow-capped mountains and colorful clouds, Erhai waves, butterfly shadows of three pagodas, bees, fish insects, plum blossoms, camellias, birds and so on. The ornaments are rich and colorful.