Secret of the Red Yao people in Huangluo village
Red Yao is another branch of the Yao people, who are mainly inhabited in northwest part of Guilin, it gets its name for wearing red clothing everyday. Yao women are very good at needleworks and good embroidery. Red Yao men have basically no features of their dresses, middle-aged women wearing traditional costumes still have the habit - pink shirt, black pleated-skirts, which are very charming and beautiful. Red Yao women's clothing look very good. Generally speaking, their costumes are the recoil sleeved upper body suits, mainly in red tone, with a variety of styles of design.
Huangluo Township of Longsheng County, Guangxi Province, there're more than 100 women with long hair that make their village become world-famous long hair village. Yao's woman has long hair as their own tradition of Second Life, at the age of 18, a grown-up ceremony is held for them, their hair are cut in the ceremony for the first time, but also the last time for their entire life. Usually when comb their hair that fall off, they would pick up one by one to coil in their hair again. From their hair-style, you can judge who is married or unmarried. Their hair must be untied by their grooms in the bridal chamber on the wedding day. Their hair remain very long and are coiled on their heads, black, very shiny, they say they are usually washed their hair out with the water that clean out the rice before cooking.