Yi costume is great in variety, with different designs for different places. In the Liangshan Mountains and west Guizhou, men wear black jackets with tight sleeves and right-side askew fronts, and pleated wide-bottomed trousers. Men in some other areas wear tight-bottomed trousers. They grow a small patch of hair three or four inches long on the pate, which is named "Zier", and wear a turban made of a long piece of bluish cloth. The end of the cloth is tiedsintosthe shape of a taper jutting out from the right-hand side of the forehead. Women wear laced or embroidered jackets and pleated long skirts hemmed with colorful multi-layer laces. Some women wear black turbans, while middle-aged and young women prefer embroidered square kerchiefs with the front covering the forehead like a rim. They also wear earrings and like to pin silver flowers on the collar. Men and women, when going outdoors, wear a kind of dark cape made of wool and hemmed with long tassels reaching to the knee.

 The Proprieties and Taboos

Usually there is a stove in Yi people's room. Spittingsintosthe stove is forbidden, and it is also forbidden to be naked around the stove.

To urinate facing the sun is considered very rude according to the Yi.

Yi women are prohibited from sunning the clothes at the aisles and near the beehive.

Even if you don't drink or smoke, you should not refuse the smoke and wine from the host which will be treated as very insolent. You should accept the cigarettes and the alcohol but not to smoke or drink insgroupsto show your respect to the host,but you could not smoke or drink.