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The Beauty of Golden Pheasants Lies in The Miao Ethnic Group Feather

A saying of the Miao ethnic group goes like this: the beauty of golden pheasants lies in their feather, and girls of the Miao minority their silver ornaments. When walking in hustling markets, lanes paved with slates or mountain paths within the region inhabited by the Miao ethnic minority, you will come across women and girls who are in Miao ethnic costumes decorated with laces and silver ornaments. The sparkling and clanking silver ornaments will be bound to astonish you.

Miao Silver: a Poem Written with Silver

The Miao people revel in silver ornaments. Wherever they stay, their dresses (especially their silver ornaments) will become highlights and humanistic landscape of the local area.

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As the Miao people are living in many areas at home and aboard, their silver ornaments are of great varieties, with those made by Miao people in Guizhou and West Hunan as the most typical ones.

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Since ancient times, the craftsmanship of Miao silver ornaments has progressed constantly. Such unrivaled folk artworks are totally made by the hands of craftsmen who are apt at making silver ornaments.

Silver ornaments of the Miao ethnic minority are diversified, colorful, perfect, pure, eternal and meaningful, just like a beautiful poem written with silver which is worth reading perpetually.

 

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