Girls of the Red Yao tribe, a branch of the Yao ethnic group, show spinning skills during the celebration of the tribe's traditional clothes drying festival on July 2, 2014. [Photo: CNS]
Red Yao Ethnic People in Guilin Celebrate 'Clothes Drying Festival'
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.