The Secret Of Black And Long Hair For Yao Girls In China'S Guangxi
What's the secret of black and long hair? Join us to visit an ethnic Yao community in Guilin, China, where women only cut their hair ONCE in their lives.
Hello, everyone welcome to xinhua life, a major english, honest agency. Today we are in huang, loyal, village building city of south, china's guanxi zhang and columbus region, and we are here to show you a special festival, double blue festival, and today we are here. There will be a ceremony of long hair festival. Can you imagine how long would your hair be? If you only cut your hair once in a lifetime today, the village is full of the woman who saves their long hair for the rest, their lives, since they are 18.. So before the ceremony starts, let's learn more about the festivals and we have a special guest. Hello, everybody um welcome to hong kong. This is huang loyal village, and now you are in hong kong and friends from all the world. Welcome now, today is a quite special day we all getting here to celebrating the march 3rd festival here now you can see a lot of people from all the world here. This is the longhair village and i am from this village. My name is pan hua. All the people here have the same family name, that's pan, so you can see we have the long hairs or everybody wears a long hair. So we call it a long hair village and later you may see the long hair everybody. You know. There'S no other village like like this, like um such so many women wear long hairs, so we have got the record, which year do you guys got the genius world record in 2002 and that's already. That was a very good news for us in the village and that there was no such um, not so many visitors, but since we got a record now more and more visitors come here yeah as we can see. There are quite a lot of visitors here, so they are here for the double third festival and they are here to watch the long, hair, festivals and watch the ceremony so yeah how about the ceremony today? Okay, um, you know all the people meeting here in this place. First, we'll stand in a line like here and to sing the local songs. This is also called a welcome song. We sent this song to express our welcomes. Our hospitalities to everybody know to all the friends from all the world and then next we'll go to the island, a moon island over there to have a victory right. You know it means like the girls when they become elderhood, they have a ceremony. You know to cut 18 years old girl to cut her hair and that's a symbol of elderhood and then next one all the ladies will stand in lines around the moon island to comb the long hair and to show the visitors our long hair. So i see your clothes is quite special right. Is this your special clothes of your ethnic group? Yes, you know yao and it belongs to hong yao and we also call rayo, but what we call rayon you may seem all close or close or skirts or belts. The main color is red and the color of red means lucky and relishing not only in china, but also in the yao family. So today we are in hong kong village. It'S a village of longshan county longshan county belongs to the administration of william city. It is famous for its beautiful rice, terrace fields and ethnic village in mountainous areas. The well-known long-term, the well-known long-term rice, terrace phase, literally meaning long dragon's backbones revealed through many generations covered ever since the yuan dynasty. The fields built along the mountain slopes, wind from the riverside up to the mountain top with the highest place of an elevation of 885 meters and the low is 380 meters. Besides the wondrous natural scenery, longshan county is also famous for its blended ethnic customs and cultures. There are 10 ethnic groups in long-term, including han zhang, yao meow and some others, all of whom are addicts, invoke, singing and dancing. Each group process is own charm and differs from the others in agriculture, clothing, styles, food habits, festivals and customs. These unique people are found in several famous ethnic villages, including industry, zhong, village, ching, zhu, zhuang, village by mail by miami village and huanglo yao village. Hong kong village is well known as the long-haired village, because the women villagers there wear hair as long as four feet. Often, visitors can see them washing their long hair along the riverbanks or take photos with them. They hold a genius record for the length of their hair. Ok, look over there. The girls are coming. There are like hundreds of women that are lining up and they are coming here to the moon island to possess the. So the ceremony is about to begin so yeah. Let'S tell us something about the ceremony here. Okay, you may see this sacrifice ceremony here. You know the one in the front, it must be someone in the village that has a very high virtue here and this and he is blessing. You know this family is blessing, the people in the village. You know we wish we will have a good weather for the clubs and we will have a good harvest in in a year. In the last of the year, oh [ Applause, ] uh. Now, after the sacrifice ceremony, the girl you know staying in the front, the girl will cut her hair later, but there will be. Somebody like her mother will cut her hair for her yep. Her mother, her mother, will do that and then later that you know the others cannot see, you know they will cut the hair and then they will. You can see her mother stands behind her and will cut her cut of hair. For so the her is about to begin yeah yeah. This is the beginning, see the girl is almost crying. It'S too exciting. It'S a very important day for her. Her mother and the others will put her hair the other hairs on the head together. You know in the yao family we never threw our hair away but keep them together and put them on the head together. Now they are helping her to peel the hair on my head. So the mother now is collecting the hair and she's going to put the hair on the girl on the go's head. They will show their long hair now. Maybe we can follow them and have a look they're going to wash their hairs. Is there anything special about the hair washing? Yes, you know the hair of the yow. Ladies or girls are long black and bright. You may see. What we use is is not the normal shampoos, but we made the we made it ourselves and that's quite very ordinary. In our daily life, because the water, the rice, water, all the water, after washing the rice, you may have a look, they will pour some in the barrel later on now, have a look? Yes, this is the rice, water and rice water, the water. After washing the rice they're putting in a big barrel and boil them together with some orangey skins, and then you know, keep them in a big barrel for about half a month or month, then after that we use them to wash our hair. So, what's the benefits of this water, this is good for the hair. After washing the hair, you become very soft black and no white hair, even the very old grandma you know. In the village, she has no white hair. Okay, this way of washing hair has passed down from generations to generation a long time. How long has the tradition has been passed down about 100 years? Maybe i think more than a thousand years, thousands of years? Yes, since the answers of the yaw okay, now they are now washing the hair yeah. They are washing the hair and show you. You know how we wash our hairs in the daily life. How long would you usually wash your hair and say um not quite often openly, you know, because it's very hard for us to wash our hairs. You know every like in the summer, every three or four days and in the winter every week yeah we watch our hair. How long? How long would it take if you wash your hair one time yeah when we, you know the rice, water? We put the rice water on our head and then we'll keep on the head here for 20 minutes and then 20 minutes later we wash our hair. You know in the river, yes in the river, usually yeah the river. The water of the river is quite clean and you may see very small fish there's fish, but we cannot see. Now we have fish fish in the river. Yes, okay, now we are going to the lady who's got the longest hair in this village. Okay, we are trying to find find her okay, this two lady here these two ladies here have got the longest hair in this village. Let'S go and interview them. Well, the ladies here has saving her hair for over is more than 2.3 meters now and, as you can see, she's winding her hair up here. What'S the next step now, as you see all the ladies here, the women and the girls will show the long hair. Now please enjoy the long hair show. There are about 300, ladies and girls. Now they are showing their beautiful hair and they come they're here now they've got quite long hair, as you can see so you may see you know she has a long hair here. You know she has one on her head and the other. She has already joined them together in her hair and later she'll put in on her head, and there will be a bomb in the front. This kind of hairstyle means married and has babies. Yes, we have three kinds of hairstyles and we may go and have another two kinds: yeah, let's go and find other two kinds: okay. For me, it's difficult to recognize no she's going to make hairstyles it's a marriage, but no babies hairstyle. We are waiting for it. This hair, she cut it down when she was eight years old. Now she put them together with her own head and then later she will wrong then on her head, so with so much hair. I think it's going to take a little more time to finish the hairstyle. Oh wrong, on the head married. Then no babies, yeah, there's the hairstyle. You can see. Yes, let's go and find the third one. Let'S go, there's another one! We'Re going to show you! Okay, you've now have a look. This is the third kind and with cover you know, this means single, a single hairstyle and when she's married, then she can open her car. Well, she, the hair, the hair she's got now - is about this long right now. She'S saving for two years. Ok, let's take a closer look at this beautiful. Ladies okay, today we have introduced you, the mysterious long-haired culture of vietnam, but there are more for you to explore. Yes, if you have a chance, welcome to the village to experience by yourself all of the friends from all over the world welcome, and we are waiting here for you - we have the long hairs. We have the handmade yao clothes welcome. Okay with this, we wrap our live show today, if you enjoy our live, show, please share it with your friends within your youtube, facebook and twitter. So thank you for joining us. See you next time.
Comments
Michelle Dowdy: Aside from learning about the use or rice water for the hair, this video is highly informative and educational. I love how colorful the people are, how gentle and revered as women. I have so much admiration for their tradition being passed down for generations, and still being much respected and loved. The communal, helping one another nature of the wash day is what we used to do until we became modern. Even though they are wearing the same clothes, each woman is unique in her body shape and look. This is really wonderful to see.
Leslie Mal: Does anyone notice that the ladies in there 40,50, and 60's and beyond don't have hardly any grey hair??? It is thick black and beautiful!!!
Kidicorn Toy Tales: Their hair is amazing, I'm going to try it my hair may turn black too :P
Ray: They’re basically using rice water and doing protective styles. Makes sense.
Jenn Sou: We live in America where we color, flat iron, perm, and add extensions. These women embrace their natural hair! Beautiful
farah: the thing is: they take care of theirselves without expensive products or expensive hair products! I just started with using rice water and I’m excited to see the results.
Roshan Ara: The secret of her hair is that fresh river water and pollution free environment
Ya Basic: 12:04 RECIPE: "The water after washing the rice we are putting in a big barrel and boil them together with some oranges skins and, you know, keep them in a big barrel for half a month or a month, then after that we will use that to wash our hair."
Thun Ka: Their genes are incredible, not just the hair but their skin as well. They all looks very young for their ages
Sandra Sutton: I am so emotional seeing all these women follow a tradition from years ago not only for beauty but for the respect of their culture!!! So beautiful and the hair styles are nice. Love this!!!
Murphy Ross: Incredible history and tradition. Im amazed!
Andrea W.: There is less stress in these villages and they gently take care of their hair. This is probably why it is so beautiful. ...Family and Togetherness is important. They take care of each other.
Lanny Ogarro: This is a very beautiful documentary; so rich in culture and ethnicity. Love how it captured my attention, really wish I had saw how long the girl hair was before she cut it! Beautiful people❤️
Schi: God bless the beautiful Yao people and the amazing Chinese culture tradition.
Aly Mae: What a beautiful ceremony and set of traditions. How their hair is so sacred to them... so wonderful... we come from such different worlds but this makes me emotional and gives me amazing insight of this village and it’s culture...
Pete Hall: An excellent informative video. I have studied and admired the Red Yao of Huangluo village for many years and possess two of their lovely embroidered jackets. The long hair of the ladies is remarkable and very beautiful indeed.
BRWNSKN: What's beautiful to me is that the ladies do each other's hair...that's caring. Also, the 3 different wraps were very interesting.
A Colon: Thank you . It’s wonderful to see such beautiful traditions still carried out. Lovely people.
PR-36: My grandmother who is 80 has as many grey hair as I have currently in my late 30's. She's always used herbal products and always oiled her hair
Val Willman: I love watching these women doing their hair with LOVE!!❤
Casie Millhouse: I love seeing amazing cultural festivals in China. I would love to visit the festival some day
888 888: Wow this is like world Guinness record holders for the most women with the longest hair in one village beautiful
LY: The water plays a huge part in hair health. When i temporarily lived in a farm, we had water pumped from a spring for our cooking, cleaning and bathing. My skin was so clear (even though i had no clenser), my hair was super shiny and my nails grew fast. When i came back to the city all that changed. The minerals in spring water / river water are rich and pure. The fermented rice has amazing aminos and benefits.
fionaberri: This is so interesting!! I love their culture it's so cool!! I wish to visit there someday!
Ugyen Dema: Apart from wonders the rice water’s doing, it’s beautiful how their hairstyles represents their marital status and the way they keep the comb right on top is extremely efficient.
Ellie Martinez: why am i just finding out about this if it’s been around for 1000 years!!! insane how we live in this modern society. Damaging our hair everyday omg!! the things we learn! i’m soooo amazed
Faye Toliver: This is awesome!...No more complaints about natural hair style routine...and I'm copping that recipe...Lol
Maimo bibi: So who else out there is thinking on doing the rice water challenge,the yao women's way?
JMB: This is so beautiful! What a culture. Just amazing! Thank you all for sharing!
Vannabrooke101: Beautiful! I am inspired to grow my hair as long as I can!!
Nasreen Thasleem: They gathered together just to take care of their hair..thats unique and amazing!
Nicole Raheem: That's it, I'm retiring early and moving to Yao Village. Bye America! ✌
Bianca: They’re so beautiful omg I’m so amazed by their hair and traditions I love it !!
Eduarda Brito: I’ve been researching this for a week! The river water and clean environment of course helps but it is mainly the rice water. Why would they go through all that effort with the rice water if it was just the river water?
Lisa Scales: They also don't over wash only once a month and not with harsh chemicals also their food and lifestyle is healthy probably no drugs
Lisa Eischens: It’s so interesting to see how they uphold their culture and differentiate between the married women with children, those without children and then the single ladies. Very beautiful women.
jage: No relaxers no curling irons no dyes highlights etc. Which is killing our hair plus stressy life. Today I'm going Yao. Thank u!!!
Charu Yoga: such a beautiful tradition. I love to see your village women help each other comb & wash out the hair. Its wonderful to see a closely knit community help each other...I hope to visit your village one day.
Princess Lelaka: I don't think rice water is the miracle formula. Their genetics, lifestyle and environment plays a massive role
Charrise Stroud: I luv it..from the customs to the costumes Everyone seems so happy..
StrawberryGoldd: I love different cultures it’s very interesting
denica govender: I thought the lady had a head SCARF wrapped around her head BUT it's her HAIR.
Deepthy Binu: I am also going to wash my hair with rice water .Is anybody there who is thinking like me
The Queens Concubine: Long and healthy hair is not the only thing that runs in their genetics, they are also all so beautiful, I am stunned beyond believe.
Vaishakhy Vishwanath: I love their traditional dressing style it's soo good looking . I wanna try it once
Deanna Cook: Imagine having your hair down to your knees and it being called short hair
Sara E: They are so organized and calm, wish the people of village were like that
carmen bailey: All of these ladies have eleagance and beautiful hair,also love their tradition. Thank you for sharing
Sonal Tripathi: Wow, what a tradition!!
Michaela D: I think the quality and length of hair is most influenced by genes, then the way of washing or nutrition...
Alice: They all seem so welcoming and lovely ☺️ I would love to visit that village 100%
Raquel Thomas: Very interesting for me and i love learning about different cultures
_sadgirl_: they all have such gorgeous hair, this is my goal for my hair journey
rrreee: My head was so dead, dry but I tired the rice water and my hair grew so well and I finally got to chop off the dead hair without having to go bald ✋
Diamynd Rough: Thank you so much for sharing your ancient secret with the world. Also the song playing in the 17th minutes of the video and on is beautiful and goes so well with the scene playing
Elisabeth jean-louis: Thank you for this, absolutely beautiful ❤️ you and the lady were absolutely wonderful to show us.
Mary Riseling: This is a beautiful video I love seeing the different cultures and colors❤
Branco Zorina: No white hair or falling hair even among the older women. Such healthy hair!
Fatuma Khamis: Love and support to the women who have that kind of long hair
Rabielle Parfait: This is why I love China. The diversity is great and it's nice to see that ethnic minorities are still keeping up with their traditions. :-)
Charisma B.: Wow! Thank you so much! I love watching this! <3
Priyanka Boddu: I'm literally losing my hair.. So i just wanna try this.. Hope that it may work
burntbronz: the also add TEA SEED BRAN to the water besides the citrus skin. you can buy it on ebay in powder form. it makes the rice water smell like Snapple or Arizona tea. and it disinfects the scalp
Janine Anderson: Wow!! This is amazing! This is the first time I have ever seen hair this long. I am going to try this for my hair also using the rice water and orange peel.
V.J. Cooper: What a beautiful display of culture that has been passed down generation to generation over 1000 years. The rice water washing is also embedded in their DNA for over 1000 years. .... These beautiful woman have completely different DNA makeup and come from a completely different culture. Just don't get caught up in using something that is foreign to your scalps and body. Fermented water may not be the best choice for our own African hair. These women don't mess with their hair in any way... no added products, no shampoos, no weave, no glue, no gel, no hair curlers, no hot comb, no braids, no front lace wigs, nothing! They let their hair be natural. The problem with us is that we just can't seem to let go and let our hair be natural. We have been programmed to look a certain way which means we have to obtain a certain hair texture. I've been a victim of that thinking too. I would love to see one of these women and thank her for just letting her hair be itself... Just natural hair!
Grishma Ghimire: Everyone is talking about the hair but their skin is also very glowing and beautiful. Even the women in their 50's 60's look so young. They are really beautiful inside out.
Astrology Babe: I’ll gladly live there if they got hair like that and gorgeous skin These people are so beautiful oml
Kimberly Castillo: So impressive, I think I'll try it. Also, just another observation, amazing how well the speak the English language. So educated and diverse.
synchronicity676: Amazing! So much of community life n fun.. not to mention d fascinating hair of each of these beautiful women! Styles recognized as married with kids, without kids n unmarried Keep sharing more of such traditions..
jobenren: This was very interesting and informative! I came for the rice water, stayed for the culture :-).
Jennifer S: Never mind their hair, this village is gorgeous! I'd love to go and visit there.
andris p: This sounds great! Getting ready to start, but confused about the preparation. How long do one has to boil rice for, any measurements, when do you add the orange peels? Also, what happens if you already have gray hairs?
love Jehovah babs: Rice water really works ..I use it too ... though my has never been that long..4c hair is the hardest hair you can ever try to grow
Supriya Naidu: These ladies are so blessed that they are having this kind of hair.
MakV, Official: I love the three hair styles, and their meanings.
Diane Duran: This is amazing I love it.
Cheryl Medeiros: I can appreciate and applaud you for doing this in English but I wish it was in Chinese with subtitles.
Redrose Antonio: I am so jelous of all their beautiful long hairs ❤
Tangle journey: I am Sri Lanka. I have a knee length hair (22 years old). My goal is ankle length hair. yeah. it's true that rice water is helps to grow hair faster.i try this now every day.
Bintu Kabba: Wow this is beautiful❤️
ENO AFIA: I use rice water with cinnamon as Leave-in and in my Shampoo. It's amazing on my coarse hair.
Kristie M: Naturally beautiful women wow . I have so much pride in my culture
Uzuriuk: Not only are these women quite beautiful their skin looks amazing...don't forget the length of the hair.
Vibgyor Vibes by AR: I think the river also a matter of growing their hair
SANJALEETA SINGH: I used a rice mask today and my hair looks and feels amazing!
Matsi: They all look like Chinese Repunzel, if I had seen them as a child I would have fainted from excitement
AquaWoman: Excellent Video!! Very informative!! Well done!! Thank You so much!
Bella Fernandes: I love that they have hair to state their marital statuses. Every culture should have that! :)))))
Tiani Star: They dont even use shampoo and I'm over here washing with shampoo and my hair short asf
Claudia Pierre: I am in for this challenge in this Covid-19 era, and by Gods grace my hair is going to reach my back. Any body willing to try it.
rayhan mohamed: Quarantine got me finally taking care of my hair
arfa khan: I am from INDIA my mom always uses amla for hair and she is now 55 but my mom hair is really very healthy long and no grey hair
BEAUTIFUL FLORIDA: Wow! Shiny, black, long and no grey hair ! Love it❤ I am going to try this for myself. Absolutely beautiful
Afrish shah: Beautiful landscape ❤
HVideos: This is the importance of preserving culture.
Shahd Ahmed: اختصار الڤديو يحتفظون بماء الرز ويضعون معه قشر برتقال ويخمرونه لمدة شهر ثم يضعونه على شعورهن قبل ما يخذو شور لمدة ربع ساعه. (فائدة قشر البرتقال انه يجعل رائحة ماء الرز المخمر مقبولة )
Ah Mann Su'a: Wow Most beautiful healthy hair ever seen, wish I had hair like them☺️
Gail Isoc: Lovely women . I hope to visit your village one day. You have my biggest respect for keeping this tradition ladies ❤❤❤
Jessica Perez: I just started doing the fermented rice water but I add lavender essential oil since it promotes hair growth. Can't wait to see my results long term.
Victoria: MAHALIA JACKSON'S GREAT NEICE Pree: Great!! I'm doing the challenge and my hair is growing exponentially!!! Hallelujah Jesus!!!