Huangluo Yao Village

In Huangluo Yao Village, the Yao people are called 'Red Yao' because of their red clothing. There are about 60 families in the village. There every Yao woman has a beautiful long black hair on her head. The long hair of most of women can be loosened down to the ground. The longest hair is nearly close to 2 meters. In the 1990s, the Guinness headquarters granted "The World's First Long-hair Village" for Huangluo Yao Village. Today, if you visit the village, you can watch an interesting long hair show with dance and song.

Longsheng Huangluo Yao Village

Black long hairs of the Red Yao women are set like a tray on their head all in the day's work. The hairstyle is different. Girls' hair set is wrapped by a coif on which has special signs. Married women's tray-like hair set is some flat. If a woman's hair tray is more with a pellet style, it means that the woman already has sons or daughters.

When a Yao girl is 10 years old, she will leave hair with her all the life. But there is an exception that the girl will cut her hair once at her age of 18. The 'shampoo' which the Yao females use to wash their hair is not really shampoos, and it is made from rice-washing water with something special. It is very good for keeping their hair jet black and beautiful.

Huangluo Yao Village Longsheng China

It is said that each Yao Woman has three bunches of hairs on head all her life. It means that two bunches of hairs are tied up with the growing hairs on her head. One bunch is dropped hairs which are collected from every day. Another is the hair cut at her age of 18. From the fact, you can see that the Yao females look hairs as important as their life. When the long hairs are waving and flying with Yao dancing, that is such a kind of charming beauty!


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