With Manchurian wedding custom, male needs to wear a headgear when he gets married. It is sewed with 8 pieces of black cloth into a circular cone shape pointing to the sky, with a red sun symbol on top. Female's headwear is a triangle-shaped sun flower. In the Qing
Dynasty, male Manchuria's "fall hat"(warm hat) and "summer hat" (cool hat) were all white and shaped in circular cone, topped by a ball as the sun carrying radiating red straps as sun rays. Female hat was called "Qitou," a symbol of swallow tail wing developed from
the art design "double coiled hair." Manchurians also embroider lotus on shoe soles as they put it "stepping on lotus flower will convert into a Buddha," meaning to become immortal.
Xiniiang Uygur ethnic group's headwear is made with 4 pieces of cloth, with embroidery patterns of the tree of life, the flower of life or "badanmu" seeds from the tree of life. Their "sky-reaching" headwear and striped shirts and pants have become an unique cultural symbol with distinct national characteristics.
