The photo shows a young girl in the traditional costume of the Han nationality in Anshun City, southwest China's Guizhou Province. A group of Han people who are still wearing traditional Han costumes in Anshun are the offspring of armies sent by the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty to strengthen his control over the remote Guizhou Province. [Photo: CRIENGLISH.com / Wang Wei]

The photo shows the shoes of a young girl of the traditional Han nationality in Anshun City, southwest China's Guizhou Province. Traditional Han women here used to hide knives in the toe caps of their shoes to protect themselves when men went out of village to join the war. [Photo: CRIENGLISH.com / Wang Wei]

An older Han woman tidies up her yard in Anshun City, southwest China's Guizhou Province. Traditional Han people in Anshun preserve a lot of traditional customs from their old generations. Some of their houses are quite similar to those traditional ones in the regions south of the Yangtze River, where their ancestors came from. [Photo: CRIENGLISH.com / Wang Wei]