Bullish about mountain tribe’s future

Holding on to tradition: The Changjiao Miao, clad in their traditional attire and long-horn headgear, greeting guests with a welcome dance.

DEEP in a mountain range in Guizhou province, there live an ancient tribal community whose women have a hairstyle so elaborate that it looks like a pair of bull horns.

They use a headgear made by coiling bundles of black wool string, mixed with the hair of ancestors, around a wooden horn-like ornament, which is then secured on top of the head with white string. This is the distinctive identity of the Changjiao (long-horn) Miao, a branch of the Miao minority ethnic.