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 ethnic minority.
Over generations, the ancestral hair is passed down from mother to daughter to signify the continuance of life.
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