Overshadowed by the neon glare of Guangzhou, South China’s notorious capital city of concrete, crowds and crime, and lost in the karst peaks of North Guangdong, 1,000 year-old Qian Nian Yao Zhai is the largest and oldest Yao minority village in the country. Over 7,000 red-turbaned Yao tribespeople once occupied the sloping stone and slate homes. However poverty and generational differences have dramatically reduced the population to less than 200 residents, leaving the mountain village a perfectly preserved portrait of traditional Yao culture.
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Tom Carter added a link (7 Dec 2008):
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Glenn Brandenburg said (7 Dec 2008):
very interesting story , thank you.
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Steven Maguire gave props (7 Dec 2008):
Great caption! Nicely captured!!!
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Micah Mackenzie gave props (1 Jan 2009):
Great POV!~
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