No.1 Changfa village in the world

No.1 Changfa village in the world

Huangluoyao village, Heping Township, Longsheng County, Guangxi Province, is known as "the longest hair village in the world". There are more than 300 red Yao people living here. They have more than 60 women with hair more than 1.4 meters, which has set a Guinness world record.

Hongyao is a branch of Yao nationality, mainly distributed in Heping Township, Longsheng County, Guangxi. Since ancient times, Hongyao people have the habit of keeping long hair. They usually wash their hair with treated rice washing water until their old hair is black and shiny. Hongyao women have the custom of storing and dressing hair and the secret recipe of hair care handed down from generation to generation. Hongyao women began to store their hair at the age of twelve or thirteen. When they grow to a certain length, they can cut off their long hair and treasure it. When they are about thirty years old, Hongyao sister-in-law, who has given birth to a child, can coil up her long hair and treasure it. There are more than 400 residents in huangluoyao village, Heping Township, Longsheng County, Guangxi. The average length of 180 women's hair in the village is 1.7 meters, and the longest is 2.1 meters. It is known as "the longest hair village in the world".

Hongyao women's long hair combing performance attracts a large number of tourists every year. During the May Day holiday in 2002 alone, more than 1000 tourists stayed in huangluoyao village farmhouse Hotel, with a tourism income of more than 500000 yuan. They charge 2 yuan for each time they comb their hair for tourists. A woman in her eighties in the village, unwilling to be lonely, joined the business. Longsheng County, Guangxi Province, has made great efforts to develop tourism by combining tourism with poverty alleviation. The government has invested 8 million yuan to build rural hotels for farmers and train the red Yao people to speak Mandarin and foreign languages. The development of tourism has brought about a net income of more than 1800 yuan per capita per year for the farmers in huangluoyao village.

Address: Hongyao ancient village, Huangluo, Longsheng, Guangxi

Longitude: 110.11042

Latitude: 25.73156