A Spanish-Chinese businessman is promoting Miao embroidery abroad, boosting the income of women in Guizhou province and promoting their traditional art internationally.
People from the Miao ethnic group in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture in Guizhou province, gathered in Jianhe county to enjoy the Water Dragon Carnival, a traditional local festival, on June 6 on the Chinese lunar calendar.
Miao embroidery, a national intangible cultural heritage, is helping people in Guizhou province improve their lives through increased incomes and cultural confidence.
In Haima village, Zhijin county, Southwest China's Guizhou province, Luo Ying and some local women are making Miao batiks and embroideries for the winter season.
With the Spring Festival just around the corner, exquisite ethnic clothes and accessories made in Danzhai county – located in the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture in Southwest China's Guizhou province – have entered their peak selling season.
A seminar on the protection and inheritance of the traditional costumes of the Bouyei ethnic group was held in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, on Dec 20.
A silver bracelet has made its way across China after traveling from a Miao ethnic town in the southwestern province of Guizhou to the Inner Mongolia autonomous region in North China.