Tiger head hat
As the name suggests, tiger head hat is a hat that looks like a tiger head. It is a typical style of children's hat in folk children's clothing in my country.
The tiger head hat is a hand-made folk embroidery craft supplies. It has a long history of six to seven hundred years. Together with tiger-head shoes, tiger bibs, tiger-faced bellybands, etc., it has become an important part of children's clothing and has distinctive characteristics. These children's clothing with tigers as the image have far-reaching meanings and are deeply influenced by traditional Chinese tiger culture factors.
Folk legend says that during the Warring States Period, Le Yi led the seven-nation coalition to attack Qi and captured more than 70 Qi cities. In the end, only two cities, Jimo and Ju, were still in the hands of the Qi army. The ancient city of Jimo is located 20 miles away on the north bank of the Dagu River; the Tangyi ancient city, which is the strategic rear, is on the south bank of the Gu River. It is located on the boundary of Hou Ancient City and Majunzhai Village, Yifengdian Town, Jimo City, Shandong Province, and is mutually exclusive with Jimo Ancient City. The power of horns. At that time, hundreds of thousands of troops gathered, and it is not difficult to imagine the cruelty of the war. Later, Tian Dan set up a fire ox formation to defeat Yan and restore the country. The war-torn people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait have since begun the difficult process of rebuilding their homes.
Folk custom costume culture-children's safety hats and tiger head hats
Due to the death of a large number of people and livestock, and the displacement of people due to the war, the battlefield could not be cleaned and buried in time. The limited medical conditions caused the epidemic to spread within a period. Inside the graves, snakes and insects multiply in large numbers and lurk among them with vicious wolves and dogs, posing a great threat to people's lives and property. Some newborns are often devoured by wild beasts.
Tiger is the king of beasts, so many people in Qi embroider a tiger head on their hats with silk thread to deter beasts and avoid disasters. Everyone imitates this, and it gradually becomes a habit.
Thus, when the baby is one month old, the uncle's or aunt's family must give the child a "chutoff hat", which means that he hopes that the child will be successful when he grows up. Generally speaking, there are various shapes of hats, including tiger hats, dog hats, rabbit hats, lion hats, piggy hats, etc. Among the people, wearing a dog hat means letting evil spirits ignore children. Its effect is similar to naming a child a derogatory name such as Gou Sheng or Mao Dan. The rabbit hat means that the disaster is like a rabbit tail that cannot grow. The most common of these hats is the tiger head hat.
The "tiger head hat" generally uses red velvet as the base, and yellow, white, and black cloth are used to spell out tiger eyes, tiger nose, etc., and white cloth and black are affixed in the middle of the top of the hat. The word "王" sewn out from the thread is divided into single-sided tiger, double-sided tiger, liger and tiger fit, etc. according to the shape of the hat.
A variety of artistically expressive and imaginative patterns can be embroidered on both sides and back of a tiger head hat. You can embroider phoenixes flying in the sky, plum blossoms and lotus flowers that compete in beauty; you can also embroider vivid and real magpies, water birds, sparrows, swallows, butterflies, vases and other flowers, birds, grass and insects, etc. It is lifelike and vivid, showing the innocent thoughts and feelings and healthy aesthetic taste of the people.