Yao women are beautiful without eyebrows

For the human body, although eyebrows are not as important as other parts, they are an important criterion that affects the image. Especially women, who are afraid that their eyebrows will not look good, so minor surgeries such as trimming eyebrows and thrashing are unavoidable. Make the thick ones thin, make the thick ones shallow, make the short ones long, and bend the straight ones. This is called eyebrow trimming.

However, the world is so big that there are no surprises. Landian Yao women living on Yaoshan Mountain in Mengla County, Xishuangbanna, regard the absence of eyebrows as beautiful and have always had the custom of plucking eyebrows. The little girl began to raise her eyebrows when she was fourteen or fifteen years old. When pulling eyebrows, first apply ignition dust between the eyebrows to disinfect and relieve pain, and then use two threads to rub back and forth between the eyebrows to wrap the eyebrows in the thread and pull them out.

According to legend, the custom of plucking eyebrows is related to a loving couple. Once upon a time, whenever her husband went out to work or went hunting in the mountains, she would prepare meals before the sun went down and stand at the gate of the village waiting for her husband to return. Once, when the sun had set, only Pan Axian's husband had not returned. Pan Axian was extremely anxious. After walking for a while, she saw a person standing at the corner, like her husband. She stepped forward and saw that it was a dead tree stump by the roadside. She blamed herself for having blinded her eyes and her eyebrows for blocking her line of sight, so she was so angry that she pulled out her eyebrows. She walked forward for a while and seemed to see her husband sitting on the roadside. She ran up happily and saw that it was a big stone. She plucked out her eyebrows again with anger. She continued to walk forward until she finally saw her husband. She threw herself on her husband's shoulder and cried sadly. The husband noticed that his wife's eyebrows were gone. When he learned that his wife was so loyal, he was both moved and happy. He felt that although her wife had no eyebrows, she was more beautiful than before. After the story of Pan Axian spread, women in Yaoshan had the custom of plucking their eyebrows.

In addition to being beautiful without eyebrows, the headdresses of Yao beauties are quite creative. They have red cloth on their heads and use a circle of silver turns to fix the red cloth into a cone shape. According to legend, this idea came from the blooming banana flower, which looks and does look like a banana flower, which is quite poetic. As a branch of the Yao nationality, Hongtou Yao got its name for this. The red-headed Yao beauty, in terms of headwear alone, I think it is one of the most beautiful and creative headwear I have ever seen on the heads of 25 ethnic minority beauties in Yunnan. Its shape is very simple and the craftsmanship is not complicated. It is also very convenient to wear, but it is the most poetic one. Red-headed Yao beauties generally wear a blouse mainly cut out of black cotton and a colorful skirt. The banana flowers on the top of their heads are red. The prominent spot of red is matched with a large area of black to appear calm and elegant. It echoes the dancing colorful skirt in the lower part of the body, which is really a classic effect.