People of the Miao ethnic group in Xinqiao village of Leishan county, Southwest China’s Guizhou province, pose in front of wooden barns designed to keep out rats and fire. The women model their distinctive traditional dress, which includes short skirts. (Photos: China Daily)

Young women of the Miao ethnic group wear distinctive native costume, including mini-skirts.

Women of the Miao ethnic group wear special silver ornaments and skirts as short as western mini-skirts.

Traditional wooden barns for storing grain are built above water to be out of the reach of rats and fire.

A young woman of the Miao ethnic group wears distinctive native costume, including a mini-skirt.

Young women of the Miao ethnic group wear distinctive native costume, including mini-skirts.

Young women of the Miao ethnic group wear distinctive native costume, including mini-skirts.