Miao people perform lusheng dance to pray for harvest in SW China

Villagers in traditional costumes are seen during the Gannangxiang celebration in Zhouxi Town, Kaili City of southwest China's Guizhou Province, Feb. 24, 2019. The ethnic Miao girls donning traditional embroidered attire and silver ornaments sing and dance to the sound of the lusheng, a reed-pipe wind instrument, to pray for a good harvest. Ethnic Miao people get together at Gannangxiang to rejoice in the annual Gannangxiang celebration, one of the largest-scale and most primitive Miao lusheng celebrations in Guizhou Province. (Xinhua/Wu Jibin)