Abstract: The people of Bapai Yao Nationality, an ethnic group in China, use the rich colors, diversified styles and distinguished characteristics of headdress to express their aesthetic taste, aesthetic ideal and aesthetic pursuit. Starting from classifying the headdress of Yao Nationality, the paper carries out a thorough research on the factors that influence the colors, the composition of the colors, the characteristics of color matching and the color-matching techniques. It has a positive meaning for inheriting and carrying forward the art of ethnic headdress, carrying out voluntary reform on the headdress while reserving ethnic traditional and cultural characteristics.

Key words: Bapai Yao Nationality; headdress; color; composition of color; color matching