Attire and Adornment of Jino Women in Jinghong, Yunnan

The attire and adornment of Jino people is of distinctive characteristics, simple and quaint in general. People of Jino ethnic minority like to wear garments made of homespun cotton cloth decorated with blue, red and black stripes. The patterns of the sun and moon commonly seen in the Jino attire and adornment originate in the ethnic group’s worship of the sun, and have development into cultural symbols epitomizing the evolution of the Jino people’s aesthetics.