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The traditional attire of the Shan people varies across locales. Generally speaking, Shan men wear baggy khaki trousers similar to fisherman pants, and a headwrap. [22] Shan women wear longyis with embroidered designs and textiles associated with their hometowns. Tai Khun (Gone Shan) princess in traditional costume in 20th century (1907 CE)
A man wearing a gaung baung in the traditional Shan style. The design of the modern Burmese gaung baung emerged in the mid-20th century and is called maung kyetthayay (မောင့်ကျက်သရေ). [1] It is a ready-made gaung baung made of cloth wrapped in a rattan frame and can be worn like a hat is worn.
A man wearing taungshay paso in the late 1800s. The modern longyi, a single piece of cylindrical cloth, is a relatively recent introduction to Burma.It gained popularity during British colonial rule, effectively replacing the paso and htamein of precolonial times. [2]
Traditional Burmese folklore considers love to be destiny, as the Hindu god Brahma writes one's destiny in love on a child's brow when he or she is six days old, called na hpuza (နဖူးစာ, lit. "destiny on the forehead"). A Burmese wedding can be religious or secular and extravagant or simple.
The htamein (ထဘီ [tʰəmèɪɰ̃]) is one of the traditional dresses of Burmese women. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] This skirtcloth or lower body wrapper was worn by women during the Konbaung dynasty (1752–1855) as a wrap-around skirt, or sometimes as a folded clothing material placed "tightly across the abdomen slightly left center of the waist". [ 4 ]
Traditional Bamar music is subdivided into folk and classical traditions. Folk music is typically accompanied by the hsaing waing , a musical ensemble featuring a variety of gongs, drums and other instruments, including a drum circle called pat waing , which is the ensemble's centrepiece. [ 61 ]
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Mon culture and traditional heritages includes spiritual dances, musical instruments such as the kyam or "crocodile xylophone", the la gyan hsaing gong chime, the saung harp and a flat stringed instrument. Mon dances are usually played in a formal theater or sometimes in an informal district of any village.