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(Zuo Qi is a mainly Black Miao village located in Min Gu township, Zhenfeng county about 3km from Zhenfeng itself in Guizhou province, south west China.)
These photos were taken on a visit to Zuo Qi village in October 2000. Although the village is mainly Black Miao, Bouyei also farm the land around and we saw some in the village. The Black Miao have migrated from the Kaili region in the south east of Guizhou. At the time of our visit it was the height of the rice harvest with most of the population working in the fields or the men away working elsewhere. A small group of young girls and one or two older women were dressed in their festival clothes to greet us, clapping small stools and then danced for us. Afterwards sticky rice was prepared mainly by some young men and shared with us and the Black Miao. We were then taken up to the main village and had a demonstration of weaving complex woven plain cloth for the women's aprons and embroidery. Afterwards we were able to buy some of their beautiful fine textiles.
all text & images © Pamela A Cross
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