Of course, many ethnic minorities in Yunnan have butterfly totem worship, which symbolizes their yearning and pursuit of a better and happier life. In the costumes of Bai, Yi, Miao, Dai, Jingpo, Achang and other ethnic minorities, there are often some formal butterfly patterns that are directly described. In the whole body, hats, clothes, waist ornaments, culottes and shoes have never seen the image of butterflies anywhere. Bai tie-dyeing, Miao batik, Yi embroidery, Dai brocade and butterfly patterns are common. 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 the ancient nations in the world have experienced this historical stage of natural worship. Its sex is reproductive worship (pomegranate, lotus, lotus, fish, snake, frog, etc. Are idols of reproductive worship), but each nation has different personalities because of its different living environment and cultural background. For example, the worship of butterflies by Han people is related to the homonym of "butterfly" and "blessing" in Chinese, and butterflies become a symbol of "blessing". The Bai people's worship of butterflies is naturally related to the ancient folk custom of butterfly spring and the related "butterfly meeting" (on April 15th of the lunar calendar, young Bai men and women meet in butterfly spring to talk about love), and also related to the Bai people's "circling three souls" (the ancient Bai people's religious sacrifice was held from April 23rd to 25th of the lunar calendar, when butterflies were flying in the flower season, and Bai men, women and children circled Erhai Lake and held from the holy source of Cangshan, the "God Capital"). Hundreds of miles along the way, singing and dancing during the day; In the evening, light a bonfire and cook tea and rice in the fields or forests. After dinner, the old man drank tea, played the piano and sang, and the young men and women met for a tryst and fell in love for one night. Butterfly worship has become a symbol of beauty, love and life in white aesthetics.
Of course, there are many other decorations 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 towers, bees, fish worms, plum blossoms, camellias, birds and so on. The ornaments are rich and colorful.