Study on the Qiang’s Costume Culture—A Case Study of the Qiang’s Costumes in Li County

As a part of fifty-six ethnic minorities, the Qiang ethnic has long-established national culture and is also an important part of intangible cultural heritage. The article outlines the connotation of the Qiang’s culture, elaborates the aesthetic characteristics, pattern characteristics, color characteristics, and compositional characteristics of the Qiang’s costumes. Taking the Qiang’s costumes in the Mao County area as an example, through analysing the materials of Qiang’s costumes in the Mao County, the paper deeply analyzes the differences in cultural customs and dressing habits between different regions. The unique geographical features of Li County’s clothing are summarized based on these differences. The Qiang ethnic calls itself “er ma” or “er mie”, and it is also being called “nation on the cloud”. They are mainly distributed in Maoxian, Wenchuan, Lixian, Songpan and Heishui counties in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province and Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County in Mianyang City. The rest are scattered in Danba County in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, Pingwu County in Mianyang City and Jiangkou County and Shiji County in Tongren Prefecture of Guizhou Province. This article focuses on Qiang costume culture in Li County of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province.