A girl of Miao ethnic group puts on her headwear with the help of an old woman in the Zhanliu Village of Jianhe County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, on January 31, 2009. It was the second day of the traditonal Embroidery Sisters Festival, which falls on the fifth to the seventh day of the first month in Chinese Lunar calendar. Villagers worshiped ancestor, performed Lusheng (the ethnic emblematic reed-pipe blowing instrument) and held gala during the festival.[Xinhua]

Women dressed in the costume of Miao ethnic group walk in line in the Zhanliu Village of Jianhe County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, on January 31, 2009.[Xinhua]