Huangluo

This guide to Huangluo, a Red Yao village on the rice terraces outside Guilin, follows a rule observed among the wooden stilt houses here: women cut their hair only twice in a lifetime, once as infants and once at eighteen, and never again. It traces the belief behind that rule, the private recipe used to wash hair that is never cut, and how a woman's style signals her whole life story at a glance. Listen for how the village's reputation grew over two decades before culminating in a single day in April 2023.