Red Yao Ethnic People in Guilin Celebrate 'Clothes Drying Festival

Girls of the Red Yao tribe, who live in a village under Guilin city in Guangxi, put clothes under the sun to mark the traditional Shaiyi (Clothes Drying) Festival on July 2, 2014. The Red Yao tribe is a branch of the Yao ethnic group, and it is a traditional custom for people of the tribe to put clothes under the sun during the festival, which falls on the sixth day of the sixth month on the Chinese lunar calendar.
The festival comes the 6th day of 6th lunar month every year; and yao people in Longsheng will hold many activities to celebrate the holiday, like spinning skills, suning clothes, dragon dance, preparing holiday food and so on. Longsheng is a great place for moniority culture, as well as the beautiful rice terraced fields.