由于苗族没有文字,他们以服饰为容器,以针线为媒介,以图案为“语言,”将本民族的悠久的历史和灿烂的文化乃至爱与恨都绣在衣服上,镌刻在心里,针针线线都浸透着这个民族太多的情感,与其说他们是在绣衣服,不如说他们是在叙写着厚重的历史,记载着不朽的文明,倾诉着千年的情感。正是由于苗族服装这种“语言”的功能以及寄寓的情感以及对本民族语言极其一切标志的维护心理和态度,苗族服装才会呈现出其他民族特别是汉族服装少有的“规则性,”才会成为文化的表征,情感寄托的载体。 Because the Miao people do not have the words, they wear clothing as a container, needlework as a medium and motifs as a language to embody their long history and splendid culture and even love and hate on their clothes and engraved in their hearts. Needle thread is soaked with too much emotion of this nation, so much they are embroidered clothes, as they say in the narrative of a thick history, recorded immortal civilization, talk of the millennium of emotion. It is precisely because of this “language” function of Miao clothing, as well as the emotions of sending emotions as well as the maintenance psychology and attitudes toward all the symbols of the national language, the Miao clothing will show the “regularity” of other ethnic groups, especially Han costumes , "Will become the cultural representation, emotional sustenance of the carrier.